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Multimedia and Technology Training At the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Multimedia and Technology Training At the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Updated July 22, 2008 (2 months, 3 weeks ago) in Web Design
New to WordPress? This tutorial will guide you through the basic steps of publishing with the WordPress 2.5 publishing platform. Learn how to post and mange your content, as well as upload media.
Updated May 27, 2008 (4 months, 2 weeks ago) in Web Design
Multimedia web sites often take the form of mini sites that don't utilize your publication's design templates. Coming up with fresh, professional-looking web designs for multimedia projects can be tedious and time-consuming. Fortunately, there are literally thousands of downloadable free web designs out there, ready to be customized and modified. In this tutorial, we point to some of the best resources for free web design templates, and also provide detailed instructions for modifying our own freely downloadable web design.
Updated May 7, 2008 (5 months, 1 week ago) in Web Design
This tutorial will go through the process of constructing a simple Flash template with three buttons. Each button will take you to a different section of the project that will showcase your videos, photo slideshows, or a Google map mashup. This tutorial was written for people using either Flash 8 or Flash CS3, under the ActionScript 2.0 language.
Updated Sept. 23, 2008 (2 weeks, 3 days ago) in Web Design
A tutorial on how to create and use templates for creating news projects using Adobe Flash. A general understanding of the basics of Flash is required for this instruction on implementing the templates.
Updated Feb. 15, 2008 (7 months, 4 weeks ago) in Web Design
Soundslides has become one of the industry standards in creating audio slideshows due to its simple interface, low cost and its devotion to journalistic storytelling.
Updated April 11, 2008 (6 months ago) in Web Design
HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is used for creating Web pages and other information viewable in a Web browser. To create a Web page you can use a basic word processing program, such as Notepad for Windows or TextEdit or Simple Text for the Mac.
Updated Sept. 13, 2007 (1 year ago) in Web Design
Dreamweaver is a Web page design program that lets you type text and add media elements directly into a page, much as you would with a word processing program like Microsoft Word. Dreamweaver converts your text and graphical page design into the HTML code read by a Web browser.
Updated Feb. 14, 2008 (8 months ago) in Web Design
This is where your skills come together - Web page creation skills, interview skills, audio and video editing skills, and storytelling skills all converge at this point. Inserting media into Web pages is a bit more difficult than creating plain old HTML with graphics, but if you've mastered the other tutorials in this site, you'll do fine.
Updated Sept. 13, 2007 (1 year ago) in Web Design
Flash is Macromedia's powerful vector-based animation tool. Flash is the defacto standard for Internet multimedia because it allows authors to create online multimedia presentations with minimum file sizes. With Flash, Web presentations can blend text and pictures with video and audio, interactive buttons, and animated charts and graphs.
Flash is also becoming a rich ground for multimedia journalism, because ...
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