Welcome

Hello Class,

I'm excited to have the opportunity to close out your multi media education. During the 16 weeks of class we'll cover advanced topics such as setting up a working environment and writing code for applications, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), and Info Architecture (IA) best practices, and using the Flex framework to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). This blog will be used to post useful articles and resources, additional reading, and homework assignments. I'll announce homework at the end of each class and post the assignment here after class.Please send homework to the email I supplied in class and give the following subject line: MM3 HW#N where n is the week number.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Week Two Home Work

Use the the techniques we learned today in class to build a simple (stress on simple) three page brochure website.  For now, I don't care what the thing looks like as long as it does these things:

  • Uses a single movieclip to hold all of the internal pages
  • Uses a separate movieclip to hold the buttons
  • allows users to jump from one page to another by clicking next and back buttons
  • allows users to jump to a specific page
  • have a link somewhere in the brochure that opens an outside page in the browser.
  • extra credit: have the pages play as a slide show where each frame has a several second delay there is lots of ways you can do this, pick the first one you can think of.
All of these topics where covered in class in some form, please feel free to use the working file from todays class as a reference.
Please note, although this is a perfectly acceptable way to build a simple website it is not the best way to build more complex web applications.  The most important take-aways from this lesson is: what an event listeners is and how it can be used to take user input and that can be used to change the state of the application - in this case, a simple movieclip and a URL.

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