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Title: Design over substance
Review: While it's nice to see a little design in Flash books finally, Flash Wed Design pulls the ol' trick of giving you so much glitz and glitter that you're fooled into thinking there's content in the book. To be fair, there was some decent info on Quicktime and 3D with Flash, but beyond that Flash Web Design is woefully behind the standard of books like Flash 4 Magic and Graphics, Animation, and Interactivity: with Flash 4.0 in all areas except design. The lack of a CD is devestating and is it just me or does someone have a serious ego trip going here (the motion blur employed on the author's mug on the cover is actually telling because most of the techniques within the book are brutally fuzzy at best). I'm puzzled at all the five star reviews. Either there's a lot of people who want a good looking coffee table book, or Curtis has a lot of friends pullin' for him. As for me, I can't recommend the book and I am ashamed of falling for the design over substance trick.
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