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By Timothy Garrand
Focal Press
Paperback (478 pages)
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Learning how to write for just one type of interactive media, such as web sites or games, is not enough! To be truly successful as an interactive writer or designer, you need to understand how to create content for all types of new media.
Writing for Multimedia and the Web is the most comprehensive guide available for interactive writing. It covers web sites, computer games, e-learning courses, training programs, immersive exhibits, and much more. Earlier editions have garnered rave reviews as a writing handbook for multimedia and web professionals, as well as a classroom text for interactive writing and design.
New Sections and Completely Updated Chapters:
*Writing a corporate web site: T. Rowe Price
*Creating blogs and podcasts
*Web writing tips from usability experts
*Optimizing text for web search engines
*Defining the user with use cases and user scenarios
*Dealing with web editors
*Software for organizing and writing interactive media content
*Script formats for all types of multimedia and web projects
*Writing careers
*The case studies explain real-life lessons and professional savvy through the experiences of interactive writing pros
*The first-time glossary provides a quick-and-easy way to learn essential web writer lingo
*Gain access to pro's personal views though reading first-person interviews with successful interactive designers and writers |
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By Calleen Coorough
Course Technology
Paperback (576 pages)
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A comprehensive textbook covering introductory multimedia concepts, Multimedia for the Web: Creating Digital Excitement – Revealed, Deluxe Education Edition gives students a solid foundation in the planning process and design considerations, while covering industry standard applications and emerging technologies. |
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By Wendy Boswell
Adams Media
Paperback (288 pages)
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Do you find your Web searches frustrating and time consuming? If you're like most, you use the Web for research--whether for school or work or to find essential healthcare information. But with all the ads and questionable articles getting in the way, it can take days just to find one reliable source! That's where The About.com Guide to Online Research comes in. Let industry expert and the About.com Guide to Web Search, Wendy Boswell, lead you through essential tips and tricks to streamline your searches. With this authoritative guide you'll learn how to: - Choose the right search engine
- Google like a pro
- Evaluate sites for accuracy
- Dig deeper with the invisible Web
- Revolutionize searches using RSS
- Find relevant multimedia
From Boolean searches to mining the blogosphere, this guide is packed full of information for anyone who has ever sat staring at a search engine wondering where do I begin? With Wendy and About.com, you'll be clicking your way to information that is accurate, timely, and relevant in no time! |
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By James G. Lengel
Prentice Hall
Paperback (192 pages)
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B> The Web Wizard's Guide to Multimedia on the Web teaches readers how to create a site that will have people coming back for more. This book introduces readers to the multimedia possibilities of the WebQthen teaches them how to incorporate each from of media into their Web pages. From adding sound to integrating animation, this book will help readers how to create well-designed, user-friendly Web sites. Addison-Wesley's Web Wizard Series is perfect for anyone who wants to create, design, or learn more about Web sites. Each full-color book provides a concise, easy-to-read, step-by-step introduction to a Web-related topic. This book discusses the incorporation of animation, sound, and video into Web pages. It explains how to make sites accessible to most, if not all, users, keeping in mind different browsers, platforms, bandwidths, etc. Information on site testing is also presented. This full-color book provides a concise, easy-to-read, step-by-step introduction to Web design. The Web Wizard Series from Addison-Wesley is a series of brief, introductory books written by instructors on Internet and Web programming topics of interest to anyone who wants to create web pages. Each book includes an easy-to-read, full-color design featuring plenty of hands-on examples and exercises, and is written in a concise and practical manner so readers can use the technologies in no time. |
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Springer
Paperback (1022 pages)
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The two volume set LNCS 3767 and LNCS 3768 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2005, held in Jeju Island, Korea in November 2005. The 181 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 570 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including all aspects of multimedia, both technical and artistic perspectives and both theoretical and practical issues. Besides papers that focus on traditional topics, such as multimedia communications, audio-visual compressions, multimedia security, image and signal processing techniques, and multimedia data processing, there are also artistic papers which need not to be strictly technical.
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By Lon Barfield
Addison Wesley
Paperback (352 pages)
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This book provides a unified approach to the different skills and media of new media design. The book is divided into four sections; first issues that arise from designing with new and developing technology are discussed, then the role of the building blocks of new media (sound, color, and animation) in design is explained. The third section of the book covers interaction design, and finally the book concludes with the presentation of the process of design in a practical step-by-step way. For Web and multimedia designers who want to learn about interaction design and how new media can be used today. |
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By Jennie Bourne
Peachpit Press
Paperback (336 pages)
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With millions of viewers looking to the Web as their source of entertainment and news, high-quality Web video is in demand like never before. Whether you’re an expert in video production or are just getting started, you need to know how to produce the best video possible for the Web and then make sure it gets seen by a wide audience.
Here to guide you on everything about planning and shooting, editing, choosing a distributor, marketing your video, and making a profit, author and producer Jennie Bourne takes you through the steps to getting your video from concept to prominence on the Web.
Web Video gives you practical, step-by-step instruction and advice from top experts in the field, with hands-on projects and footage available for download at the author’s Web site, www.webvideobook.tv. You’ll learn everything you need to know to create great video, get it noticed, and make it pay off, including:
- Web video production techniques for a variety of genres, including events, interviews, how-tos, video blogs, and news and dramatic shows
- What it takes to make your video a viral hit on the Web
- How to shoot high-quality video that stands out, with real-world tips from Web video professionals
- Editing techniques that draw in viewers and hold their attention
- Compression and formatting tips to make your video look great
- Advice on creating a distribution plan that fits your needs
How to profit from advertising or selling your video
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By Kim Golombisky
Focal Press
Paperback (296 pages)
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Designing a brochure or web site without an art background? Step away from the computer and read this breezy introduction to visual communications first. Written for non-designers, Visual Communication is a practical graphic design and layout text introducing the concepts and practices necessary for producing effective visual communications across a variety of formats, from print to Web.
This beautifully illustrated, full-color book covers the basics to help you develop your eye and produce attractive work. Topics include:
* The basics of effective design that communicates its intended message
* Pre-design planning
* 13 Layout Sins to avoid
* Basic typography
* Working with color
* Storyboarding for video, Web, and presentions
* Information graphics
* Mini Art School--all the basics in one chapter
* Outputting your work
* Finally--the basics of layout, design, and visual communication for print and web in one easy-to-digest book!
* "Try This" sections in each chapter include fun, hands-on activities to develop skills.
* The companion web site includes text and photo support material; video clips that put the principles in practice; interactive multimedia components; and links.
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By Stephen Pite
OnWord Press
Paperback (336 pages)
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In this exciting, full-color book, Stephen Pite creates a collaborative forum aimed at engaging readers in digital design while offering a point of entry into a process in which innovation and communication are being continually refined. Central to the book is a series of progressively challenging projects, ranging from traditional print to sophisticated websites, interactive CD-ROMs and multimedia, and 3-D motion graphics. Heavily illustrated with compelling work by students enrolled in Graphic Design programs across the U.S., The Digital Designer takes readers step-by-step through the design process with unprecedented attention to developing and refining the design concept, as well as the execution strategy. Narrative solicited directly from Graphic Design instructors accompanies illustrations of high-quality student work, helping to explain and reinforce important digital design principles and methods. The result is a book that empowers 21st century Graphic Designers, enabling them to work effectively across a wide range of fully digital and exponentially expansive media as they promote goods and services and build links between present and future. |
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By Calleen Coorough
Course Technology
Paperback (384 pages)
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Multimedia and the Web: Creating Digital Excitement, by Calleen Coorough, provides you with a solid understanding of the underlying concepts of Web-based multimedia, while illustrating the very latest in multimedia technology and techniques. Inside you’ll find coverage of careers in Web-based multimedia, how to plan a multimedia Web site, the elements of multimedia, design principles, multimedia authoring tools, plus multimedia in e-commerce and Web database connectivity, and much more. |
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