Flash how to click over after 4 clicks
Oct 26th
To get it to fire up the next click that will take you over to the website you still need what’s called a “counter”. Look through the code I’ve given you and apply only the lines that handle the counter.
//———— apply the sections below the best way you can and be sure to read through my comments as they will tell you where each section should be placed.
var nClickCount:int = 0; //initialize the counter first… don’t put it inside of a function.
// You will notice I took out the trace calls … I use a trace to indicate what is happening. I ran trace(nClickCount); immediately after the line nClickCount++; so I could find out the value of nClickCount each time the mouse button was clicked.
//The portion below is inside the the function that receives mouseUp event data
nClickCount++;
if(nClickCount==4){
var masURL:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“http://www.miamiadschool.com“);
navigateToURL(masURL);
}
//End of click over section
Convert your audio from iTunes to Flash CS4
Oct 12th
Is Flash squawking at you because it can’t understand the audio file you are importing? Try running the file through Audacity and exporting as a standard mp3 or a wav file. Flash is picky when it comes to some of those audio file types. iTunes is using m4a and some other types which Flash won’t accept. Audacity will give you the option to save the file back out as an mp3. Try it out: Audacity for Mac or Audacity for Windows
BTW you will also need the LAME MP3 encoder. – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/faq?s=install&item=lame-mp3
Flash Class and Additional Links
Jul 6th
Class Contact Methods:
- Learning Is Fun
- Ozzu
- Use your email addresses
- Skype
- Chat programs
Inspiration Links:
Tutorials:
Local Flash Groups
- FlashMN – 3rd Wednesday of the Month – Easel Training Center, St. Paul
- MN.swf – 1st Tuesday of the Month
Music links:
Interesting Online Tools:
- rsizr – Intelligent Image Resizing
- Seam Carving Demo
- Aviary – Creativity to go
Web Site Setup in Dreamweaver – Site Dev Part 1
Jun 2nd
A couple tips before we begin
always use lowercase characters in your web file names
if you use spaces in your filenames replace them with hyphens
Don’t open Dreamweaver just yet….
To start create a folder where you want to develop your site. (example “mywebsite”)
Create 2 folders inside of this. One called “designs” the other called “docs” (docs will also be known as your “local root folder”)
Create an “images” folder inside of docs
Now open Dreamweaver…
|in the top drop menu|
click site > new site…
|advanced|
enter the information
site name: = (whatever your site name is)
local root folder = docs
default images folder = docs/images
Links Relative To = select Site Root
HTTP Address: = http://localhost/
cache site = not checked
In the left space you will see a category list.
Click on Testing Server
Server Model
[v] <- Means click the drop down menu
Select PHP MySQL
Now click |OK| at the bottom of this window
If you wish to actually host the website on your machine as a true testing server here are a few links that may interest you.
MAMP – Mac, Apache, MySQL, PHP (this is what each one acts as … computer type/program, web server, database type, dynamic language type)
WAMP – Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP
LAMP – Linux, Apache, MYSQL, PHP
How to Setup a MAMP or WAMP with Dreamweaver
MAS – EI – Week 7
May 19th
We are going to cover as much of this as you can handle in one class.
It’s a lot of information and Dreamweaver handles about half of the portions for you.
-The web design process
-What is HTML?
-Should You Learn HTML
-HTML & WYSIWYG Editors
-Linking Basics
-Creating Links
-What is CSS
-Why use CSS
-Using DIV and SPAN
-setting a class or id attribute
-Turning Off Borders using CSS
-setting WIDTH & HEIGHT
-setting the ALT attribute
-using Thumbnails
-linking to Other Media,
-CSS Background Studies (Tiles & Tiling Backgrounds,
-Pattern Sizes, Full
-Screen Backgrounds,Background Code, Seamless Tiles)
-Web File Formats: Bitmap(raster) or Vector?
-File Size and Downloading Speed,
-Making Small JPEGs, GIFs, PNGs
-Hybrid Images (Using HTML to fill Image space)
-What size do we make our layouts?
-Screen Resolution
-Using Kuler to select colors.
-BODY Colors, link Colors, font Color
-Embedding Flash, Movies
MAS – EI – Week 6
May 14th
Presentations: Students present their interactive videos.
Lesson: Understanding simplicity. Think about what is easy for your clients or your customers’ clients.
Make it “Zen” by design.
Garr Reynolds – Synergy Keynote Day 1 Part 1
Professor Brian Sturm – UNC Chapel Hill (presents storytelling as a way of organizing information, conveying emotions, and building community.)
David Seah – (blog) David takes a journey into the discovery of using storytelling drive design.
Duarte – (Blog) Duarte covers many aspects of design and presentation. Focusing on the story .
Dave Werner – (Engaging Interactive Portfolio Site) Each segment Dave is able to open himself up and be really vulnerable in all of his stories and work. The products that a part of and that come out of his stories are some of the most impressive examples of storytelling in website design.
Assignment: Students will develop a website using the story approach. The website can be produced as concept pages. It does not have to be fully functional. It might be best to use TileStack to complete this assignment.