http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/25/bizarre-websites-on-which-you-can-kill-time-with-style/
Some amazing flash animation websites for inspiration.
Super Cool Flash Sites
May 25
This is selectable, searchable text, styled with CSS!
Google font API and the google font directory is a project aimed at offering more choices in web fonts, the legal way!
Benefits of the Google Font API include:
* A choice of high quality open source fonts.
* Works in most browsers.
* Extremely easy to use.
The line of fancy script text above was created with this code:
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Tangerine”>
<style>
.fancy{
font-family: ‘Tangerine’, serif;
font-size: 48px;
}
</style>
Homework due May 24
May 20
Complete lesson 4 from the Flash book.
Publish and add a link (to the HTML page) to your launcher
Flash Time!
For homework, please read and complete Lesson 1 (starts on page 2: use the CD for the source graphics) in your Flash Book.
When you publish your movie (page 28), Flash will generate a .html file and a .swf file (and probably a Scripts folder). Add these to your launcher. Do not upload the .fla file.
If you do not have Flash at home, you may downlad a trial (30 day, full featured) here
Resources for Flash, Day 1
May 19
Sites we looked at:
- Studio MikMik
- Multiways
- Get the Glass
- 2 advanced: 2001!
- 2 advanced: 2009
- FWA
- Unlimited Orange
- Tokyo Plastic
Good resource for Beginners:
How to install wordpress
May 18
just a bit of PHP
May 18
Earn 5 extra credit points (the value of one complete homework)
Slice, mark-up, and style one page based off of this comp:
Include the orange tab as a rollover state and the current page marker
Complete this assignment by the last day of class for credit. Post it to your launcher and email me so I don’t miss it!