This book gets readers doing the most popular enterprise-level applications, the most sought-after new Flash development.

Jessica Speigel is a hub in the web design community. She has instant credibility.

Were-here.com is one of the most frequented Flash resources on the web. Over 5 million unique page views on were-here.com! Flash-based web application development is an intimidating prospect even for intermediate/advanced Flash developers because of the lack of information available on tools and techniques. This book fills that gap by deconstructing three enterprise-level applications in an accessible way, the first book of its kind. This book gets right down to business with instructing how to create three of the most sought-after Flash applications- 1. Full-featured Flash e-commerce site 2. Multi-player game (including speech bubble chat & theme game rooms), and 3. On-line community with forum, real-time private messaging and search capabilities. In addition, this book will have a generous share of tips, pitfalls, usability notes and "whys." This books accompanying source code allows the reader to tie the front end (Flash) they created to back-end programming (XML & Java).Her site is a leading resource for Flash designers and developers and her site is visited by 8 million/month, and has upwards of 30,000 community members. Her professional career includes first-hand experience building Flash-based web applications delivered across a variety of mediums, the web, kiosks, as well as PDAs.