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Welcome to first edition of the Estco Medical newsletter. We're continually
expanding the capabilities of our Medigent software suite and broadening
the range of life science companies we work with. Our quarterly newsletter
will keep you informed of our latest developments, product enhancements
and strategic partnerships. Estco President and co-founder, John Estafanous,
J.D., has published an editorial on the developments hospitals are making
using online marketing strategies and the latest Web sites technologies.
It is universally accepted that hospitals, like any other organization today,
really must have an Internet presence. Here are a few of the projects Estco
Medical launched this quarter: Estco Medical has created a flash animation
for Aspect Medical's OEM partnership section of their Web site. The flash
animation demonstrates the different hardware of Aspect's medical device
system to the various companies that operate the system. For GE Medical
- Complete Flash Web Site Design and Development - Custom Interactive Flash Screensaver Application Creation - Complete Flash Web Site Redesign and Development - Flash Web Site Interface Prototype - Flash Corporate Screensaver - Complete Flash Website Design, Development and Hosting - Flash Animation Prototype for Web and Demo CD-ROM - Flash Web Site Intro - Complete Flash Web Site Redesign Supported file extension is Must use PowerPoint 97 or higher No animation properties are supported for PowerPoint 2002 (MS Office XP). Total file size for the file must be less than 10MB Avoid using complex backgrounds on slides Slide can be inserted into Centra as either .gif, .jpg or HTML When you import the file into the Centra session, each slide becomes an agenda item and the PowerPoint slide title is assigned as the Centra agenda item title. Example: If you create a slide with ONLY a chart with its elements appearing by Series, the Chart does not appear. If you add a line of text or bullets, the chart will appear. Embedded Animation Embedded Flash animation does not appear in the Centra Media Window .au & .wav files do not play audio in the session Miscellaneous Some fonts may not appear true to the original version in the Media Window if the user does not have PowerPoint installed on their computer. HTML Slides with PowerPoint animation and media file Sponsor ASI's useful and informative electronic newsletter and reach over 5,0002 registered subscribers online every week. Sponsorship includes hotlink and sponsorship credit in the week-ly newsletter, FREE banner ad on the ASI Web site, plus your logo and sponsorship credit in ASI E-News promotional materials and ads. ASI Editorial and Web Partnering ASI offers many opportunities for you to bring your product and services solutions to our subscribers. Ask your sales rep how you can participate with case studies, literature/product and staff press releases, technical and practical use features and more. Bring ASI to your Web site with our content licensing and partnership programs. ASI now gives you access to the exciting and effective world of Search Engine Marketing! Visit www.bnpmedialinx.com or contact your sales representative for more information today! Banner Ad and Sponsorship Box Formats We can accept JPG (static), GIF (static or animated) or SWF (Flash animation) PowerPointAnimationThe following instructions will show you how to create an animation in PowerPoint that demonstrates how to count using binary numbers. It includes a number of ways you can use PowerPoint to animate objects including: slide by slide, flash object and custom animations. Create a custom animation for the circle. Set the circle to flash once. Make the flash animation happen automatically. We do this so they will animate again. On slide three remove the circle animations. Animation - 17 Animation - 19cbie-fall-04-02 181..188To address the different learning styles of students, and because students can access animation from off-campus computers, the use of digital animation in teaching cell biology has become increasingly popular. Computer programs for developing animation and animations associated with cell biology textbooks are reviewed, and links to specific examples of animation are given. One purpose of this review is to encourage the widespread use of animations in biology teaching by discussing the nature of digital animation. The value of animation may be evaluated by what appears in the animation and the technical aspects of the animation. In terms of what appears in the animation, in my opinion, less useful animations often oversimplify a concept or skip too many steps in a pathway. For example, animation files should be of relatively small size, and the animation player should be commonly available for both Mac and PC platforms. Animations from this program use theYet because of this slow but steady evolution, even experienced designers and developers of e-Learning are often not aware of ever ything Flash can do. And, while it may be true that Flash is the single most-often used e-Learn-ing development tool, its lengthy learning cur ve challenges designers and developers who want to master the full potential of Flash. If you always wanted to know how experts use Flash, how they learned Flash, and what their tips are, this is the article for you! Each of our five exper ts brings par ticular backgrounds and skills into their projects, and this means that each one uses Flash in a different way. While any instruction needs life, I have especially tried to use Flash's math-ematical capability to bring math and sci-ence content to life. The latest version of Flash MX has been specifically designed for the instructional designer or subject matter expert who has no experience with Flash or ActionScript. You can dynamically load data 4255_CRM_HunleyDesign--Fireworks and Flash 8 Build--Dreamweaver 8 Maintain--Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash 9 Creating Flash Animations 86 Sharing Content with Flash 107 Creating Flash Animations 107 Pages and Layers in FreeHand 112 Pages 112 Layers 114 Exporting Images 115 Publish as HTML 115 HTML Output Assistant 116 Summary 117 5 Introduction to Macromedia Flash MX 2004 119 A Brief History of Flash 119 Looking at the Interface 121 The Timeline 123 Frame-by-Frame Animation 159 Code Hinting with Object Names 264 Applying ActionScript 265 Possible Improvements 276 Summary 277 9 Saving Flash Movies and Creating Flash Web Sites 279 Making a Flash Web Site 280 Adding Navigation to a Flash Movie 280 fm01_4255 4/2/04 2:34 PM Page xiv Flash (.swf) Format Publishing Settings 287 Animations in Fireworks MX 2004 376 Frame-by-Frame Animations 377the misuse of movement and animation on a web site. Sure it's tempting to use waving flags or animated intros with music, etc, but is it necessary? Most of these types of animations are done with a program called Macromedia Flash (a few of the simpler ones may be animated GIFs). Now don't get me wrong, developing Flash animations is one of my passions. Our Flash developers at Wood Street are actually certified so we definitely see the benefit of Flash animations. However, there is a difference between effective animations and distracting and ineffective animations. When considering the use of an animation or an animated web intro you will want to ask yourself these questions: - Do I need animation? Flash animations require a plug-in. Flash accessibility is a current and controversial topic among designers and developers. Learn how to combine CSS, XHTML, and Flash MX into an accessible, usable, and engaging user experience. See what Flash MX 2004 brings to the accessibility table, and get practical design, code, and deployment advice. - There is no onmouseover vocal state for Flash movie buttons - applicable to design and testing - As the animation changes, the reader starts over from the top of the page 2 / 7 "Using a screen reader is a bit like reading a page through a soda straw. - Consider not using Flash for a total user experience - Experiences can require users to attend to several variables at once If you want to deliver accessible Flash, then: - Windows-Eyes (as of 4.5) will say "button" at least once, every time there is a Flash file, even if there is no button. ActiveX controls trap focus on hybrid pages with Flash 6 plug-in IMDfactsheetWelcome to images.MD, the first continuously updated online encyclopedia of medical images. Below are a few pages that users can follow to familiarize themselves with the website. These pages can be found via the home page, which is at: http://www.images.md This should be the first stop when entering the site. Registration is necessary in order to fully utilise the site, view the images and customise the site. Explore Now Quick and easy pull down menu: to allow users to jump straight to the collection or speciality of their choice. What is iMD? Flash animation tour of the site, showing in detail the tools available to an images.MD subscriber.2D Animation Get an introduction to the tools, techniques and skills fundamental to character animation for film or TV. Be exposed to the animation production process and the roles of classical animators through projects that lead to the completion of a simple 2D animated film. list for animated blockbusters goes on and on. Learn the role of a digital animator and get an overview of the tools, techniques, concepts and skills needed to make an animated short film. At the cumulation of the course you will apply what you've learned to adapt music and sound effects to an animation or short film. Explore 2D animation production for new media/Web applications using Flash. Classical animation techniques and theory are applied to new media technology production through projects that lead to the completion of a simple 2D animated film. Learn to produce your own stand-alone mini game prototype using Flash. Isoph On-Demand Learning Tools: PresenterDevelop engaging presentations, briefings, and tutorials for staff, supporters, and volunteers. Eliminate the time, complexity, and cost of creating custom Flash presentations and online training modules. At the press of the button, your presentation is transformed to a compelling Flash experience. No need to rely on expensive Flash programmers. With Articulate Presenter, your presentation is converted to Flash, which is already installed in 98 percent of Web browsers. Create compelling presentations, complete with narration, animation, and interactivity. Convert PowerPoint animations to Flash automatically, and edit animation settings with ease. Flash Movie Integration 2. Do I need to know any Flash or other programming to use Articulate Presenter?S06Macromedia's Flash technology has evolved over the years from a simple tool for delivering low-bandwidth animations over the Web into a platform for delivering complex applications, rich media content, and multi-user environments. While it is true that Flash remains the dominant delivery mechanism for vector-based animation on the Web, it is also true that Flash has become the delivery mechanism for complex business and educational applications created by some of the largest companies and educational institutions in the world. Flash is capable of delivering far more than animations or short video clips. At JHSPH, we now deliver entire lectures, including traditional PowerPoint-style animations, using Flash as the universal, cross-platform playback mechanism. Macromedia, the developer of Flash, has created a rather complex set of servers and software that now form the core of the Flash development ecosystem. At the center of Flash development is the Flash player itself: ther.haynes@unl.ac.uk www.unl.ac.uk/multimedia The multimedia development team at University of North London works in conjunction with lecturers to create innovative, interactive materials for online distribution. This session will demonstrate some of the learning resources that have been developed over the past year using Macromedia Flash software, giving participants an opportunity to engage with the material and exchange ideas with the developers. Keywords Multimedia, Interactive, Flash, Animation, Materials 1. INTRODUCTION The demand for online learning resources combined with the need for high-speed networked delivery and the expectation of well-designed, upgradeable materials has led the multimedia development team at University of North London to use Macromedia Flash software as the development tool of choice. As well as providing animated web graphics that are superior to any existing package, audio files and photographs (jpegs) can also be embedded into the Flash enliven_guideEnliven allows you to create ZoomView images that include and combine ZoomView and Flash animations: Flash animation - plays a Flash movie over an image. Tip: From each feature's main menu, choose to trigger animations from the image's default (home) position or from the position where a previous animation ends. The new animation displays in the Animations table. Animations table, reselect the file's corresponding thumbnail image, create a new animation, and save it under the name of the file you want to replace. From directly below the top navigation bar, click the Reset button to delete all animations listed in the Animations table. The new animation displays in the Animations table. Repeat these steps until you have completed all of your Flash animations. Select to play the Flash movie simultaneously with or after the ZoomView animation.Designed for system administrators, network security analysts, and IT professionals desiring a broader understanding of security learn how to better protect their networks from external attack. This course also includes an online course component as well as classroom discussion and demonstrations on hacker tools, potential system vulnerabilities, hacker methodologies, current exploits, and effective approaches to risk management. Work with Flash's timeline-based animation system to create animated, interactive web pages and other multimedia projects. There's a lot more to Flash animation than assigning a few motion tweens. Learn the tricks of the trade to take your Flash graphics and animations from simple to sophisticated, from ordinary to elegant. Topics include advanced drawing techniques, creating elegant shape and motion tweens, optimizing drawings for animation, applying the principles of animation aesthetics, and more. Learn to use this popular operating it's that time of year again when HeSCA members can nominate a fellow member for one of the association's awards. Animation can also relate scientific concepts to everyday experiences. For ex-ample, in animating the chemistry behind the hCG pregnancy test, I began with the familiar sample cup and test strip and, using increasing levels of abstraction, zoomed in to reveal the biochemistry. In other words, an animated narrative is great format for conveying biomedical topics. For the septoplasty video, I exported the animation as a QuickTime movie, which Cox brilliantly integrated into his live footage of the actual surgical procedure. Interactive animations can use hands-on activities to engage tactile learners or to provide a virtual training experience. In fact, a teacher in Germany emailed me to say how smoothly the swift animations on my Website played on his Linux system. The vector graphics in Flash means the output is scalable: the same file can be viewed Our staff of programmers, videographers, animators, illustrators and 3D artists can take on any job, on any scale. The types of services are: Corporate Identity, Multimedia & Animation, Web Hosting, Website Design (mostly fl ash and highly interactive sites), all 3D work (commercial, industrial and gaming),trade show design and full cycle fi lm & video production. We are frequently asked to work on cross-discipline project s producing CD's, DVD's, Animations, 3D and web. Graphic Designer, Animator, Programmer. shots, or animated videos to streamline your design process. Flash Animation & Web Design With our large library of sound effects, sound tracks and animations we can generate studding animations with a rapid turn-around. Flash Animation & Web Design With our large library of sound effects, sound tracks and animations we can generate studding animations with a rapid turn-around. | ||
