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November 30, 2004

Use a behavior to play an mp3 file

When you want to add interactivity to your document with ActionScript, you can often rely on behaviors to add the ActionScript for you. You'll use a sound behavior to play an MP3 file from the library.

ï In the Library panel, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) ping.mp3 and select Linkage from the context menu.

ï In the Linkage Properties dialog box, select Export for ActionScript and verify that Export in First Frame is selected.

ï Verify that ping.mp3 appears in the Identifier text box, and click OK.

ï On the Stage, select the playSound_btn instance.

ï In the Behaviors panel (Window > Development Panels > Behaviors), click the Add (+) button and select Sound > Load Sound from Library.

ï In the linkage ID text box, enter ping.mp3, and in the Name text box below, enter ping. Then click OK.

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November 16, 2004

Research and planning tasks

For IT next week you need to begin your projects.
I'm setting two tasks for your production journal.
Firstly you should begin to fulfil your research obligation into the content and the layouts for your GUI (graphical user interface).

Identify at least two examples of sea-based pollution that you might be interested in pursuing for the content of this project.
Find some inspiration for your interface designs in existing information systems (minimum three examples), you will need to make screen shots and annotate these (saying what about each might work for you, and what the limitation are each for your design).
You should use these only as inspiration, each may provide a solution to a particular design problem not a complete solution in itself.
Remember to cite the URL (web address) the author and the date you located the site.
You must remember that sources that appeal to you may not appeal to your user group (your parents). You might find it useful to speak with them about this to find out which would work best for them.

The second task is for you to begin your planning - At this stage you need to begin making diagrams that illustrate the system of menus and how your user would navigate around your site (don't worry about the fancy stuff just yet)
A spider diagram might be the best way to approach this problem. This should contain as much as detail as possible about the actual content of each "page" of your site (you should describe this in terms of the type of info: audio, visual and other forms of material).
See this for a (very) basic example.

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