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The final chapter of this book is an introduction to the exciting world of Macromedia Flash -you don't have to complete the exercises to follow along, but to get the full benefit, it might be worth getting a trial version of the software from www.macromedia.com/flash. Conventions We want this book to be as clear and easy to use as possible, so we've introduced a number of layout styles that we've used throughout. • We'll use different styles to emphasize things that appear on the screen, KEYSTROKES and also hyper! inks. • If we introduce a new important term then this will be in bold. If there's something you shouldn't miss, it will be highlighted it like this! When you see the bubble, pay attention. • When we want you to click on a menu, and then through subsequent sub-menus we will indicate to like so: File> New. This would translate to: • If there's a practical exercise for you to follow then it'll be headed: like this, in a bubble 1. Then the steps that you have to follow will be numbered. 2. Follow them through, checking the screenshots and diagrams for more hints. 3 Foundation Web Design Further explanation of the steps may appear indented like so. 3. When you get to the end, you can stop.