Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Hands-On Training

This one of the better flash books I have ever seen. I was a little afraid to buy this book after reading some reviews about its binding and how the pages are falling out, but they sure have fixed that problem since I received my copy. It really gives a great incite and alot of great sort cuts and tricks to really up your level as a flash user. I bought this book because my flash class at school was a stinker and I needed something to help really grasp the program and this book does it. If you want to learn flash I recommend this book!!!!

I bought this book to learn some basic flash to integrate into my websites using Dreamweaver. Little did I know when I bought this book that it was ALL tutorials which you must follow step by step in order to understand the lesson. If you had the idea of reading this book and skipping around a little, forget it. In order to get anything out of this book you are forced to follow along with the activities step by step for 500 + pages. Every new lesson/topic is reliant on you completing all previous lessons and tutorials in the book. In a way it's good- reading this book is the equivalent of taking a class. But it robs the reader of the liberty of learning in the order they prefer and browsing to subjects of interest. Only buy this book if you have the patience to read and follow the 500 pages of tutorials step by step by step...

I resent the low ratings for this book because they're not about the content of the book. As a person who sometimes has to buy several books to find a decent one in the computer or webdesign world, when there is a perfectly good book out there, that gives clear and accurate information, it's not fair to other people who might benefit from the book to sway them with a low rating. This book is an excellent tool for learning flash. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the content of the book, which is why most people will buy it, so it's not fair to give it a low rating for things that don't relate to it's content. And for the record, my book is bound very well. It is not falling apart at all.

Chapters 1 thru 9 are useful, chapters 10 and 11 have a number of errors, for example on page 260, item 7: the click over, drag and release order is not correct, they should be click over, release then drag. I also found problems with exercise 3: creating an animated rollover button. My book also fell apart.

I think the book is worth working through the exercises, but it would be a good idea to have additional reference books available.

This book since Flash 5 is the best step by step book for any subject on the market. If the printer is not gluing the book together properly, then return it and demand a better one. But do not rate the book low because a book maker use inferior glue. Rather review it on its contents and use. I recommend all readers of these comment to click No on helpful for the two complaining about the book glue.