Coverting PSD to HTML

Hi everybody,

There is another method to covert your screen design in Photoshop, which demands less work. I didn't recommend it in the class because the outcome might be not as perfect as desired, in terms of composition and visual solutions. But if you prefer saving time and will be satisfied with a basic site, you can try the following:

1. Carefully create slices in Photoshop
2. File > Save for Web & Devices > Select slices as needed > Save
3. in the pop-up window, choose Format > HTML & Image; Settings > Default; Slices > Selected Slices

Then you can find the HTML exported, and add links to buttons.

Let me know if this works. Good Luck!

Lily

How to make a Flash movie with a transparent background

PublicTechNote:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14201
How to make a Flash movie with a transparent background

How to make a Flash movie with a transparent background

The background of a Flash movie can be set to transparent. This allows the background color or image of the HTML page that contains the Flash movie to show through and allows the layering of Flash content with DHTML content.

Preparing the HTML page to make the Flash movie transparent
Three methods of creating an HTML page with the correct code are outlined below.

Publishing from Flash
The HTML for a Flash movie can be created using the Publish Settings feature in Flash. The Publish Settings dialog box provides an option to affect the WMODE setting. The options selected in the Publish Settings will be added to the HTML source code automatically:

Choose File > Publish Settings. Select the HTML tab.
Choose "Transparent" in the WMODE setting to make the Flash movie's background disappear in browsers which support this feature.
Publish the document.
The Adobe Captivate demonstration below illustrates how to use the Publish Settings in Flash to change the WMODE settings. For more information about viewing this demo, see Viewing Adobe Captivate Demos in Knowledgebase Documents (TechNote kb403894).

FINAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULE - FALL 2008

http://www.emerson.edu/registrar/final-exam-schedule.cfm

Adobe CS4 Student Editions

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Attendance Policy

Hello everyone,

Because some of your email addresses can be processed by school's server, I have to post following message here.

I'm so pleased to see our "creative journey" has been proceeding very well. It's extremely exciting to me to share design ideas as well as knowledge in digital art.

As this point, I need to remind the class about school's attendance regulations, which, I believe, was stressed in the first class, "any unexcused absence in excess of two will result in a failing grade". However, to define the term "unexcused absence" is somehow difficult, technically, as declared by the college, for classes meeting once a week, two absences result fail a course.

Hope this causes attentions. Good luck with your projects!

Best,

Lily

VM618 instructor

ActionScript Library on DVD

Reminder: Please bring the syllabus DVD with you for today's class. We'll need the ActionScript Library on it.

lily

FLV on Youtube - download and play

In last class, Mark raised the questions regarding video downloading from Youtube and display with pop-up windows on the Web. The explanations are listed below:

1. Downloading
If you consider to extract video contents out of the Youtube-marked skin/player, and use them on your own site (please credit properly on your Bibliography page), simply download the video by righ-click > "download this video to realplayer"(on PC). "RealPlayer" allows you to save the video on your local disk. You will find the video is already in FLV. (Flash Video) format, meaning it is ready for being embedded onto your HTML web pages.

In the class, I mentioned that FLV. files can't be directly opened by QuickTime player, etc., but you can possibly view it with Adobe Media Player or RealPlayer without further processing.Give a try, if you can see following video (which is download from Youtube directly) with either of the players:
http://pages.emerson.edu/faculty/x/Xiying_Yang/vm618/TigerWoods.flv
The resource page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gKSxUer_3I

2. Displaying video in pop-up window
Please follow this tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJRk_pLNJ4