Tom Green describes himself as 'teacher, author, chief cook and bottle washer.' He is an instructor at Humber College's School of Media Studies in Toronto, and is also the author of 'Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX' and 'Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004,' both published by New Riders.
We are going to introduce you to an effect that's a lot of fun to use. Items on the Flash stage are rarely static. Things move around, menus pull down, and so on. The line between what is Flash and what is video on the Flash stage has, for all intents and purposes, been erased. It make...
As an educator with a post-secondary institution I have had something of a ringside seat watching the evolution of e-Learning. My biggest complaint was that, in general, most institutions getting into the game just 'didn't get it.' Their approach to the process was to create what I cal...
When I first published my observation that 'QuickTime is dead' in this publication, I never expected the response that article would garner. It ranged from, 'Dude, you are sooo wrong!' to 'Finally, we are free.' Earlier this year, Macromedia, as is so typical of the company, quietly dr...
About a year ago, I had a long chat with Mike Downey, the Flash Product Manager, regarding the launch of Flash MX Professional 2004. Mike was still stinging from much of the criticism related to the that launch, and the gist of the conversation was 'never again.' He was adamant that if...
Now that Captivate has been on the street for a few months and I have been out there 'yacking it up,' the product has moved from novelty to production tool in rather short order. Once that happens, there are the subsequent, 'How do I...?' questions that inevitably crop up. This article...
As an educator with a post-secondary institution I have had something of a ringside seat watching the evolution of e-Learning. My biggest complaint was that, in general, most institutions getting into the game just 'didn't get it.' Their approach to the process was to create what I ca...
It ever ceases to amaze me, whenever I am speaking at a conference or hanging out with the 'Flashies' at various user groups, to hear them tell me how they create their really 'cool' buttons in that behemoth from a company named after a building material. When I ask them if they have t...
The great thing about being a 'Freak' and working with a 'Geek' is not having to concern yourself with the nitty-gritty details of coding a dynamic site. The bad thing is that you will get involved with the nitty gritty details whether you like it or not.
This past summer I decided that my courseware site needed a complete overhaul. It was, in fact, a bit of an embarrassment. As a teacher, writer, and lecturer I had been sticking my courseware and lectures notes up on a site that was designed more for convenience than anything else.
I love oxymorons - phrases whose words, when placed beside each other, don't make much sense because they contradict each other. One classic, 'military intelligence' got a lot of play in M*A*S*H and Catch 22. My all-time Web development favorite is 'Web Typography.' Typography simply d...
Could it be that we're about to see the disappearance of QuickTime, Windows Media Player, and RealOne as viable Web players for streaming video and audio? Now that I have your attention, this question is not as radical as it appears at first glance.
Macromedia Studio MX includes a number of relatively unheralded gems. Perhaps it's because Macromedia hasn't hyped these features enough, or maybe users spend so much time focusing on a particular tool that they have simply overlooked or ignored how the other pieces of Studio MX actual...
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We are going to introduce you to an effect that's a lot of fun to use. Items on the Flash stage are rarely static. Things move around, menus pull down, and so on. The line between what is Flash and what is video on the Flash stage has, for all intents and purposes, been erased. It make...
As an educator with a post-secondary institution I have had something of a ringside seat watching the evolution of e-Learning. My biggest complaint was that, in general, most institutions getting into the game just 'didn't get it.' Their approach to the process was to create what I cal...
About a year ago, I had a long chat with Mike Downey, the Flash Product Manager, regarding the launch of Flash MX Professional 2004. Mike was still stinging from much of the criticism related to the that launch, and the gist of the conversation was 'never again.' He was adamant that if...
Now that Captivate has been on the street for a few months and I have been out there 'yacking it up,' the product has moved from novelty to production tool in rather short order. Once that happens, there are the subsequent, 'How do I...?' questions that inevitably crop up. This article...
I might have skipped some of the new features of Flash Player 10, but you can always refer to the official FAQ page. Visit Plash Players 10 page on Adobe Labs to dow...
Web development is a changing industry. Technologies are born, thrive, and then die, while web developers experience a great stress helping their clients get an Inte...