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Macromedia Authorware's accessible, icon-based development environmentmakes it a favorite of developers who create sophisticated interactiveprojects, from multimedia presentations to computer-based trainingprograms. Whether you're new to Authorware or upgrading from a previousversion, Macromedia Authorware 6: Training from the Source providesexactly what the title promises: project-based lessons modeled onMacromedia's own training courses.

With Macromedia Authorware 6: Training from the Source, you learnthe basics of Authorware by doing. The hands-on tutorials that form thecore of this workbook and CD-ROM package take you step-by-step throughreal-world interactive projects. Each lesson covers a specific topic, suchas adding motion and sound to your project, working with templates andknowledge objects, and incorporating Flash and XML into your projects. Thisedition of the book covers what's new in Authorware 6, including the "onebutton publishing" feature. The CD-ROM holds all the files you need to workthrough the lessons, plus a full-featured, time-limited version ofAuthorware 6.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1103668 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 568 pages

From the Back Cover
UntitledMacromedia Authorware's accessible, icon-based development environmentmakes it a favorite of developers who create sophisticated interactiveprojects, from multimedia presentations to computer-based trainingprograms. Whether you're new to Authorware or upgrading from a previousversion, Macromedia Authorware 6: Training from the Source providesexactly what the title promises: project-based lessons modeled onMacromedia's own training courses.With Macromedia Authorware 6: Training from the Source, you learnthe basics of Authorware by doing. The hands-on tutorials that form thecore of this workbook and CD-ROM package take you step-by-step throughreal-world interactive projects. Each lesson covers a specific topic, suchas adding motion and sound to your project, working with templates andknowledge objects, and incorporating Flash and XML into your projects. Thisedition of the book covers what's new in Authorware 6, including the "onebutton publishing" feature. The CD-ROM holds all the files you need to workthrough the lessons, plus a full-featured, time-limited version ofAuthorware 6.

About the Author

Macromedia, Inc. is the leading provider of cross-platform software tools for Web publishing, multimedia and graphics.

Customer Reviews

Step by step, but very confusing
I am a corporate trainer whose classroom courses are extremely popular. It is time for me to move them into a Web environment.

This book does take you in bite size steps through the use of Authorware. But as a trainer, I find it enormously confusing in its organization, in the information it leaves out and in its inconsistencies.

A quick example: the end of the second chapter shows you how to create within the software the sections for your course, and the pages within each of those sections. It then shows you how to open one of those pages and tells you that you'll learn to put content onto that page in the following chapter.

But the following chapter shows you creating content in completely different windows located in a completely different part of the software than the windows you were looking at when the previous chapter left off.

Bottom line - - I sat with this book for three days, did all of the tutorials in the first seven chapters but still did not understand where to begin to create a course from scratch on my own.

Full of far too much 'tech talk' the book needs to teach people how to use Authorware to create courses, etc. from a blank slate NOT from pre-created sound, text files etc parked in specific places that you are easily guided to. I will still need a much better written text, or some classroom instruction, to get my project out the door.

Poor organised and very uneven in quality
This is quite a poorly organised book. Certainly I found it sloppy and longwinded in equal measure. Is anyone editing these Training from the Source books, I asked myself. In any training manual. a good mental model should be easily extracted. This is far from the case here. The manual and tutorials that accompany Authorware are preferable to this volume's offerings. It is simply too erratic and patchy to meet the objective set in the title. I would not recommend it.

Even worse than the last book.
The 5 book was bad. This one is even worse. Don't waste your time or money. This was no more than an update to the last, and it doens't even fully go into the new functions, missing many inportant aspects and abilities of one-touch-publishing, integrating Flash, etc.