Digital Ether

Last lesson we looked at making a Window’s based CD automatically boot, and adding your own unique icon.

Here the script I had on the board, which when placed in a text file called autorun.inf will cause the CD to autoboot;

[autorun]
open=ShellRun.exe index.htm Starting CD now..
icon=<myIconFile>.ico

The above will do the following;

ShellRun.exe index.htm will cause a web browser to open the web-page of index.htm in the root directory of the CD.  The text “Starting CD now…” should be displayed.

The CD will have the icon <myIconFile>.ico, also in the root doirectory of the CD.  NB: Please change the <myIconFile> to the name of the file you are using.

Here are the URLs with the info;

• http://www.phdcc.com/shellrun/autorun.htm
• http://www.cdmenupro.com/autorun_inf.htm
• http://www.cdmenupro.com/icon.htm

Thank you to those of you how made use of the opporunity to finish off some of the work.  See you all next Wednesday.

This comming Term we’ll be focusing on Flash for 3 weeks, Video Editing for 4 weeks, and 3D animation for 3 weeks.  (Nb; the details will change based on various things through the term visitors, excursions etc)

Here is a website dedicated to the Lorem Ipsum Latin text used in the printing industry.

http://www.lipsum.com/

In the first half of Wednesday’s session I outlined the critical thinking skill I want your group to present to the class (it’s due first week back next term).  The second part was looking at Adobe’s Flash.

Please note that there is not classes next week, due to exams.

Much of the last few weeks have focused on designing and creating a website with Dreamweaver, but now things move onto Flash.  To get things rolling here’s a cool website built with Flash. http://www.scarygirl.com/

This week focused on skilling up with Adobe’s Dreamweaver using tutorials in class, and a few simple exercises to get you used to using the interface.

Homework was to develop 3 different design options of the website layouts, and to be ready to start with the PhotoShop mock-up of the website.

This week was an introduction to HTML the langauge of the webpage, and dreamweaver a quick way of creating webpages.

For those of you who missed it the homework was to read webpages on HTML & CSS by Dave Raggett

• http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/
• http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Advanced.html
• http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/Style.html

For those of you who want the codes (http://www.web-source.net/html_codes_chart.htm), and there are also 1 & 2 page cheatsheets (http://www.cheat-sheets.org/)

Dave Child has produced a excellent set of Cheat sheets;

• For HTML http://www.cheat-sheets.org/saved-copy/html-cheat-sheet.pdf
• For CSS http://www.cheat-sheets.org/saved-copy/css_cheat_sheet.pdf
• For JavaScript http://www.cheat-sheets.org/saved-copy/javascript_cheat_sheet.pdf
• For Color Codes http://www.cheat-sheets.org/saved-copy/colourchart.png
• HTML Character Entities http://www.cheat-sheets.org/saved-copy/characters_cheat_sheet.pdf

Visibone do good sheets but you need to pay (http://www.visibone.com/). Or you can try (http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2005/10/10/html-css-php-and-more-cheat-sheets/)

Hopefully today everyone finished and submitted the Client Portfolios.

The was a visit from Deakin lecturer, who talked about their courses.  Everyone of you should consider what direction you are planning go.

Enjoy your break.

Below are links to the official modules that we are studying

CUFDIG201A – Maintain interactive content.pdf
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.7dac82dc-e967-451e-b89e-a42f31c1a826

BSBCRT301A – Develop and extend critical and creative thinking skills.pdf
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.5f2cf57b-bcd3-46f4-9772-e0cd92a67ecd

BSBOHS201A – Participate in OHS processes.pdf
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.2c97a5a0-4471-4b86-9b29-b7b660ee0452

CUFIND301A – Work effectively in the screen and media industries.pdf
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.fbb2363c-cad8-4ddc-8d45-077492bfa22e

ICAU3126B – Use advanced features of computer applications.pdf
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.54fff9c9-da08-4bb4-816c-0a4996564f27

CUFDIG303A – Produce and prepare photo images.pdf
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.d23a98af-9c23-4231-9399-73a883a644d6

BSBDES201A – Follow a design process.pdf
http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.8b17c047-2a97-4d0f-a525-a16494b596ca

This week because I’ve been sick, I’ll be covering some of what I had planned for this and last week, and dropping other parts.   Main focus of today was to finish the Aesthetics of Art PowerPoint with the Master Slides & the content,  the stencil designs, and wrapping up other incomplete work.

I briefly covered various tools in Adobe Illustrator, so that you can complete your stencil designs.

I’ve changed a lot of the due dates (See http://jlerossignol.edublogs.org/2009/02/05/term-1-overvie…mportant-datesterm-1-overview-important-dates/)

Continued work with your Visual Diary, inparticular brainstorming and graphical designs for the two company logos.  Which is part of the Client Portfolio Project for term 1.  Note that a design sketch, and some brainstorming is the homework for this week.