Macromedia MAX 2005 - Anaheim, CA What’s New In Flash 8
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Setting Up Your Flash Document
In this unit, you will set up a simple Flash document, and examine some of the new features of
setting up a FLA file.
Creating a Simple Flash Document
To illustrate the basic steps of creating any Flash document, this section guides you through the
process in a simple tutorial.
The first step is to create a new document in Flash and explore on of the new features – SWF
MetaData.
Setting Up a Document with SWF MetaData
You can now add metadata to Flash files so that you can search more effectively for these files
using Internet search engines, such as Google.com.
You can give your Flash content a search-engine friendly description and title. Search engines that
look inside a SWK file can then better rank your Flash content.
To embed metadata within your SWF files, improving the ability of web-based search engines to
return meaningful search results for Flash content, do the following:
• Enter a descriptive title in the Title text box. (Modify > Document…)
• Enter a description in the Description text box.
Descriptions can contain searchable keywords, author and copyright information, and
short descriptions about the content and its purpose.
