BA 3799 - Multimedia for Website Design

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits

Course Description
This hands-on course is designed for experienced Web site designers interested in including multimedia on their sites. The course will cover all aspects of creating and including multimedia on a site specifically using Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia Flash. You will create a multimedia project using the techniques discussed in class. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to understand multimedia and the issues surrounding its inclusion on Web sites; select approaches, strategies and techniques for integrating multimedia technologies into the design and development of Web sites; and incorporate Flash technologies into their Web sites. (prereq: none)

Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Flash Movie essentials
The Flash MX tools panel
Flash symbols and libraries
Managing content
Enhancing your appearance
Motion tweening
Shape tweening
Masks and masking
Actions and interactions
Intelligent actions
Sound and video
Optimizing and publishing

Prerequisites by Topic

HTML, CSS and JavaScript basics
Macromedia Flash MX basics
Basic understanding of the Windows operating system (file management and directory structures {i.e. folders}, drag and drop, etc.)

Course Topics

Tools in the toolbox
Library
Using the timeline
Tweening
Including sound and video
Writing ActionScript

Coordinator
Dr. Jeff Blessing

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BA 3799 - Multimedia for Website Design