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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
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
Web Design – Week 6
Feb 12th
Tonight we will be covering just a few photoshop techniques but mostly slicing up our site designs. The design layouts can still change just a little from here. We will slice up the sites in such a way that you will be able to go back in and make image changes and save the “slices” back out to the design without worrying about the code in the background.
Assignment:
Finish slicing your designs in photoshop and preparing the template pages in dreamweaver.
Continue to gather the assets you would like to add to your site. (Graphics, photos, illustrations, textures)
Keep refining you current design put in anything you may have left out. Check you spelling.
Password Reset Bug – wordpress 2.5.1
May 21st
There is a bug with the latest version of word press which doesn’t allow you to reset your password. This can be a big deal if you are an admin. So. I made it simple to solve. Use Navicat or phpmyadmin or write a script to update the password field of your users table in wordpress. Drop in this value….. 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 save it, execute it, whatever you need to do so it is stored as the new password.  Now when you log in type ‘password’ as the password and you will be in. Now go change your password to something new. That’s it.
Double Posts in Facebook
May 19th
I was checking out the import feature on facebook and it looks like it pulled everything from my blog twice. I’m going to give it another shot but I may have to pull it if this continues. I don’t have time to deal with an issue that seems like a facebook bug.
In other news, my website currently has a wordpress facelift, a new theme which I’m gradually customizing to be my own. If you’re a friend and you currently have a blog going be added to my friends list on my site just shoot me an email or post a comment here.
It’s Alive!
May 18th
My web page and blog are now officially joined. I’m looking forward to Jarvey saying, “It’s about damn time!”
Coldfusion
Apr 22nd