http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010 Mon, 03 May 2010 17:38:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Almost there! YOU CAN DO IT. I believe in you!!!! To help you out on your final flash adventures, here are the examples for the day: Random Animation Here are some new flash examples. Sound with Pause Input Text Video The best way to add video for right now is to import the video through the File>Import> ... http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010/2010/05/02/week-14-work-it/ OMGOMGOMG! Only 2 more classes before the final! Let's use our time wisely. I'll run through examples that might be helpful for your final. You ask me questions. Let's go! Files for today: Tween and Transition Manager Classes Pong Buttons Set up your button on the stage and name the instance “myButton_btn.” In a new layer, ... http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010/2010/04/25/week-13-the-home-stretch/ Check back over the blog post for Week 11, and review the files in the link. To start you thinking about other things that you can do with Actionscript, download this file, and run the examples. See if you can understand how they are programmed. Download new actionscript examples. Assignment: Continue working on ... http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010/2010/04/19/week-12-frame-control-variables/ We'll take our first look at Actionscript today and talk about our final projects. Download these files. We will use them for today's lesson. Download this simplified control mc. Actionscript What is it? Actionscript is an object-oriented language specifically designed for web animation. It is an event-based language which means that actions are triggered ... http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010/2010/04/11/week-11-actionscript/ Let's continue Flash today with Tweens! Watch this to learn more about frame rates:Explanation of Frame Rate. When looking at the Kirupa tutorials (thank you Kirupa!), try to find the ones for CS4, as the older tutorials will be different and possibly confusing. Kirupa is so great, let's bookmark it! Today, we'll ... http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010/2010/04/05/week-10-flash/ Flash was always my first love. It combines time-based image editing format with programming and multimedia capabilities! It is a great way to add fluid animation and interaction to your design, and it frees you from the grid constraints of xhtml/css. At the same time, it also had ... http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010/2010/03/28/week-9-flash/ Welcome back! Hope you a restful break and enjoyed the lovely weather. Let's jump back into things with look at the basic structure of Javascript and JQuery! Look back over the post for Week 7 on Javascript. Today, we'll put together this simple slideshow using the image gallery that you made over ... http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010/2010/03/21/week-8-javascript-jquery/ Today, you'll present your portfolio websites and we'll learn a little Javascript. If you need forms for your Studio assignments, here's a great source: W3Schools tutorial for forms Javascript! Javascript is the object-oriented, scripting language of the web. It can add zest, animation, and functionality to your web pages. Like CSS, Javascript can ... http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010/2010/03/07/week-7-portfolio-presentation-and-javascript/ We'll continue working with HTML and CSS today, exploring tables, menus, and images. You'll begin turning your portfolio designs into live websites! For some of the topics that we didn't get to last week, skip over to Week 4 post. Here's an example of different ways to style your hyperlinks in the ... http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010/2010/02/21/week-5-portfolio-lab/ Today, we'll review CSS positioning and explore some tricks with images. We'll also learn how to use tables and make sitemaps. Solutions for the homework: (Take a look and fine tune your version accordingly.) Version 1 Version 2 If you haven't done so already, bookmark this CSS Guide Also, here is the great Tutorial on ... http://blogs.huongngo.com/prattim2010/2010/02/14/week-4-advanced-cssimages/