Foundation Flex for Designers (Foundation) (Paperback)


Flex is the technology for creating cutting edge web applications, bothin terms of functionality and design-it is easy to put together anapplication that works and looks great. But what if you want tocustomize the look and feel of your application, so that it doesn't looklike every other Flex application out there? That's not quite as simplea proposition. However, help is at hand with this book. Foundation Flexfor Designers is a dream come true for any designer working oncustomizing the look and feel of Flex applications. It takes you throughhow to customize style and layouts using CSS, how to bring design assetsinto Flex from applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks,and Flash, how to spice up your design work with some handy ActionScript3.0 techniques, and even a look forward to designing hybrid desktop/webapplications with Flex and AIR. It culminates with severaldesign-oriented case studies, including a video picker application,picture gallery, customer service site, and more.

- The ultimate Flex book for designers wanting to customize the lookand feel of Flex applications- Covers workflows between Illustrator/Fireworks/Photoshop, and Flex,as well as using CSS with Flex.- Includes several design-oriented case studies to teach and inspireyou

What you'll learn:-

The basics of doing design work using Flex Builder- How to customize style and layout using CSS- How to create and customize themes/skins for your applications- How to bring design assets into Flex from Fireworks, Illustrator,and Photoshop- How to effectively bring assets created in Flash into Flex- How to spice up your design work with useful ActionScript 3.0techniques- Several invaluable Flex design techniques from multiple case studies

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