I just finished the @media2007 conference in San Francisco, and all I can say is “wow.” I was totally in over my head, which in this case is a good thing! The speakers were all renowned experts in their fields, and I’d be willing to bet 90% of the
For many years, table-based web page layouts were the rule, not the exception. They were easy to build, they worked cross-browser, and WYSIWYG editors made it a breeze to create and edit tables. CSS-based layouts didn’t really grab hold until just a few years ago, thanks to the evangelism
Having just finished my Making Actionscript calls from Adobe Captivate tutorial, I’ve been looking at Captivate 2.0 a lot the last few days. Specifically, I’ve been looking for ways to use JavaScript in Captivate. I’m a bit disappointed to report that JavaScript can only be used
Captivate 2.0 doesn’t include the ability directly manipulate Actionscript. This has been problematic for people like myself who have Flash-based ‘players’ that load and unload both Captivate SWFs and Flash SWFs… we often need the Captivate SWF to perform some kind of action when it reaches its end.
Only took about a year to get off my duff and do it! The new, re-dedicated pipwerks.com will focus specifically on the technological aspects of e-learning and online courses, as well as the design/scripting/programming of general-purpose web pages. I can’t make any guarantees that I’ll