Designing Multimedia Web Sites approaches topics and tasks not from a technological point of view, but with a task-oriented approach. The book focuses on what you want to accomplish on a Web site, describing the best way to get to that goal.
Whether you want to add simple animated icons to your site or redesign it from the ground up, Designing Multimedia Web Sites will give you the skills you need to take your Web site to the next level.
The companion Mac & Windows CD-ROM includes examples of well-designed Web multimedia: animations, QuickTime movies, Shockwave files, and more; demos of multimedia applications such as Director Infini-D, Premiere, and SoundEdit; essential tools such as GifBuilder, GIF Construction Set, flattenMooV, and D-SoundPro.
The text also covers the current languages e.g., HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PERL, PHP, and mySQL, that are needed to construct dynamic content on the Web and milestones for getting it into the hands of your clients sooner.
Interaction design follows bringing these building blocks together, and the book concludes with a discussion of the process of design itself. Throughout the book, design is seen as an active process.
A guide to building native HTML5 multimedia into a website, from the simplest addition to more advanced features.
Even if you're completely new to the process, this book is packed with everything you need to know to build an attractive, usable, and working site.
By applying a slight blur to all or part of the image, you allow the compression scheme to do its work more efficiently. If you are using Photoshop/ImageReady or Fireworks, you will find a setting with the optimization options that ...
' This book provides many answers to that question in a way that demonstrates both the authors’ knowledge of development theory as well as their practical, real-world mastery." –Thomas Toth, Certified Macromedia MX 2004 Developer; ...
To control transparency, an alpha channel uses a grayscale image (an image colored in shades of gray, white, and black). Like a digital stencil, completely black areas make the image transparent in those spots, whereas completely white ...
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Do you want to learn how to build a website, but do not know how to?This guide will help you through as it is straight forward and provides you with all designing elements, tools, and Languages you will need to build a website.You will ...
Aimed at designers of multimedia programs and Web sites, this book offers a hands-on guide to interactive design. It examines the expanded capabilities of digital video.