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Are you a member of all the latest and greatest social networking sites? Tired of re-entering your personal details? Need to keep your information up-to-date across a myriad of accounts, and enable your user base to do the same? You need the foundations of the social web, brought to you by Ben Ward.
When you think of the people who use your website, where do they use it? At work or a home office? What about a mobile phone? What about even more diverse devices like Amazon's Kindle or the Nintendo Wii? Dave Shea asks us to reconsider how and where people use our websites, and how best to tackle the demands of building sites for a wide array of devices.
With speedier connections becoming more prevalent, and software creating smaller files sizes, we now have more options for presenting instructional material on websites. Screencasts, which capture movies of all the action on your computer screen, are popping up all over the place in all sorts of tutorials. Ken Westin previously reviewed Adobe Captivate for PC here at Digital Web, but if you’re a Mac person and you have a limited budget, Miraz Jordan’s article is just what you need.
If you haven’t done it before, preparing high-quality, low file-size video for the web looks daunting. What are the shortcuts and gotchas? How do you navigate your way through the new terminology and the myriad options in software? Flash video expert Tom Green guides you step-by-step, from the moment someone hands you a video, to putting the final product online. In part three of his series, The Rise of Flash Video, Tom provides the sort of tips that will make your work look professional from the start.
Part One of Tom Green’s series traced Flash video's rise to prominence on sites such as YouTube and MySpace (the article fortuitously appearing on the day Google’s purchase of YouTube was announced). Now, in part two, Tom, a well-known authority on Flash, tackles what may be the biggest question about Flash video—its quality—and then touches on digital rights management (DRM), and video as content.
In Part One of a two-part series on Flash Video, the immensely qualified Tom Green gives us a spirited and insightful account of the rise of Flash from a face in the crowd to the dominant video format of choice for giants like YouTube and MySpace. If you are thinking of adding Flash video to your web design skill set, this series is the place to start.
The most beautiful thing about the Web is that it never stops changing. To make Web sites well, designers must keep up on new techniques and new mediums. If you haven’t yet thought about how to build for mobile phones, now’s the time. Dip your big toe into the water with this primer from Brian Fling.
Dirk Knemeyer returns to talk about the future of web design, and share how web designers can better prepare for it.
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