Getting Started Multimedia Design


Book Description

Olsen, a media designer specializing in the development of interactive CD-ROMs, covers everything from how to choose hardware and software to developing a multimedia concept from start to finish. Topics include the differences in design principles from print design; how to find a complete team of programmers, musicians and writers; how to organize information for an interactive program with multiple screens and navigation buttons; how to add music, sound and video; the need for an alpha prototype; and the best ways to reproduce, package, and price the design. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




Designing Multimedia


Book Description

If you're interested in being part of the booming field of multimedia, this beautifully illustrated volume shows you how. Its concept-to-product approach is highly visual: with stunning, full-color samples of actual multimedia projects. Title structure, user interface, software dynamics, and many other factors that affect design decisions are explained in detail.




Multimedia Design and Production for Students and Teachers


Book Description

This book is for the many teachers and students who want to create media, not just watch commercially produced products. This text is meant to be practical in that it describes ideas and step-by-step techniques that will bring life, expression, and learning to the application of various multimedia tools. The ideas, projects, and exercises described in this book can be adapted to many teaching and learning situations in the K-12 classroom.




HTML5 Multimedia


Book Description

A guide to building native HTML5 multimedia into a website, from the simplest addition to more advanced features.




Multimedia-based Instructional Design


Book Description

Multimedia-Based Instructional Design is a thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book that provided a complete guide to designing and developing interactive multimedia training. While most training companies develop their training programs in many different technological delivery media—computer-based, web-based, and distance learning technologies—this unique book demonstrates that the same instructional design process can be used for all media. Using just one process reduces cycle time for course development—and also reduces costs.




Designing and Developing Multimedia


Book Description

The new media industry needs the producer who manages, the director with creative vision, and the writer who documents the development process. This comprehensive book is a practical, skills-oriented book for the producer, director, and writer of multimedia. It provides readers with a sound grounding in the concepts of interactive design, and then takes them through the step-by-step process of developing the multimedia product. Written with a professional orientation, this book teaches readers how to create multimedia faster, better, and less expensively. It also can act as a procedure manual for the reader's company. Topics include: Interactive, non-linear, multimedia design; the development process; games and educational products. For any multimedia professional, in particular CD-ROM developers and publishers.




Design for Multimedia Learning


Book Description

Tom Boyle explains how the usefulness of multimedia will enhance learning, education and teaching only if the essentials of good design are understood by those making products for this growing market.




Multimedia Web Design and Development


Book Description

This book/DVD package introduces the necessary steps and stages of planning a modern multimedia Web site. It includes both the design and development aspects for novices and a complete plan to get you started with the core technologies and techniques for professional Web design on a freelance or organizational basis. The text also covers the current languages e.g., HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PERL, PHP, and mySQL, that are needed to construct dynamic content on the Web and milestones for getting it into the hands of your clients sooner. Features: Provides a complete guide for developers and designers to see both front-end and back-end design elements Uses various languages e.g., HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PERL, PHP, and mySQL to maximize efficiency of modern and dynamic Web pages Uses design principles and best practices from an experienced freelance Web designer and instructor Includes language examples for self-study and challenging activities for expanding design and development; instructor’s resources available for use as a textbook







Multimedia Learning


Book Description

An evidence based, rigorous text reviewing 12 principles of experimental studies grounded in cognitive theory of multi-media learning.