Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 2: HTML

In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In this part, we’ll take an in-depth look at the HTML generated by Captivate (using the SCORM 2004 publishing template) and clean it up as much as we can. Here’s the

Cleaning up Adobe Captivate's SCORM Publishing Template, Part 1: Introduction

Adobe Captivate is an enormously popular tool for e-learning developers. My assumption is that most Captivate users chose Captivate as their development tool because it enables them to publish LMS-compatible courses without requiring any programming skills — no need to know JavaScript, ActionScript, SCORM, etc. This might explain why no one

Using the object element to dynamically embed Flash SWFs in Internet Explorer

This is a journey into the madness of Internet Explorer. Yes, there is a happy ending. Jump to the end of the post if you just want the solution and don’t care about how we got there. The Scenario You want to embed a Flash SWF into your HTML

Abstracting Your Course's Tracking Code

An abstraction layer is a way of hiding complexities and maintaining cleanliness in your application. For example, if you want to save a file in your word processing application, you simply click “save”, while a whole host of actions is performed for you under-the-hood. In this example, you’re shielded

Rule of Thirds tutorial

Update: I’ve removed the Rule of Thirds tutorial because the tutorial is old and requires Shockwave. Background: Rule of Thirds is quick and fun tutorial explaining the concept of the rule of thirds as used in visual design. I created this tutorial for a graduate-level Macromedia Director course at