Re: Web Animation and Sound Advice Sought

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On Thurs, Feb 16 2006 2:38 am, Lily wrote:

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Web Animation and Sound Advice Sought

anyone here got any tips on adding animation and
sound to your website?

[...]

i was considering buying Dreamweaver, etc., but right now i
just want to handcode it all.

here's what i'm trying to accomplish:

upon someone landing on my website, i want to:

1] automatically toggle a few jpegs

Easy.

i would assume so. but what are the tags for it?

There aren't any. You'll have to use JS.

Maybe. It's probably more efficient, I'd imagine.

No. It's simply impossible to do what you want using plain HTML.

Not impossible, just very awkward. For the enduser, especially.

i really don't think you can do it so that the pictures switch
out automatically. you have to have some kind of script running it.
flash uses a script for things like that as well. actionscript.

So, how did that old basic HTML tag "blink" (or whatever it was
called) perform the blink action?

The same way any html tag causes things to do what they do. Because that's
the way it's set up. <g> Dude. Don't ask me. I just know that text works one
way and images another. If you want a blinking image, create an animated
gif.




can i get them at w3schools.com? probably.

but which ones would YOU recommend?

Have a look at the code for my blog. It picks quotes.
You'd use similar code for a slideshow of images.

ok.

php is also a possibility,

I'm definitely gonna be learning that someday, I have a few projects
that I think will make good use of it.

My blog program is a php program that makes use of a mysql database.




which is what my blog uses for quotes, but that's another steep
learning curve

Nitpick: Wouldn't a steep learning curve indicate that one learns it
quickly rather than on a slow steady upwards slope? Although, I
rememember reading somewhere that that interpretation has always been
misunderstood.

<g> You'd think. I think just using the word steep gives the image of a hill
that's difficult to climb so we forget the bit about a curve. Or maybe it
was never meant to be interpreted the way one would a graph.



and your server has to be set up to run [php].

It is. It has a toggle option for using either a windows server or
linux (and the linux server supports all sorts of php). Which is why
I selected that option from the begining.

that's what makes javascript so useful-it's read
by the browser so can be run on any website.

So can php, no? As long as the hosting server of the page one is
visiting runs the php stuff on the server side. Right?

Yes. It's just the originator who has to have a server running php. Poor
communication skills on my part.


[...]

automatically, as soon as someone lands on the site.

also, i'd like to use very low resource-hog ways to do
this in order to be compatible with as many browsers/
users as possible. unless, are broadband connections
the only feasible way for soundfiles?

Not if the soundfiles are very low fi.

how low? what frequency range? like telephone quality?

Very low. It's not to do with frequency but to do with sample
quality.

Right. The word escaped me. Like how you can choose which
sampling quality you want when you burn your CDs into mp3 files.

Yes, exactly.

Which is pretty similar effect-wise to limiting the frequency range.

creating compressed sound files does require some kind of software.

I've got a few of those hanging around, but they only run on windows
98.

I'll have to boot up one of my old computers for that task.

Actuallly, I think have a pretty new copy of Adobe Premiere which
could probably do the job. I believe it's XP compatible. I was
going to use it to make a commercial for one of my inventions awhile
back. In 2000. To impress would-be investors -- which I did -- with
just a quickie video using the software that came with my Dazzle
video capture thinger.

Actually, the included Dazzle software seemed to work better than the
$500+ Premiere software -- at least on my first brief experimenting
with the latter.

Premiere can be a pain. The multimedia geek where I work prefers a different
program that's much cheaper. I can't remember the name, though. He only
comes to me to use the Premiere program I got when he needs to create
scrolling credits. I got Premiere thinking that I may as well get what
seemed to be the best program, but I was clueless at the time.

Lily


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