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April 10, 2006
Adding pages, sounds and making things move
SO, now that you've got a pretty good start to your pages, you can begin customizing and adding sound and movement to it.
Sound
We will use the embed tag. You can also use the bgsound tag, but it only works with Internet Explorer (not any of the other web browsers)
Example:
(This will add the sound and create a small controller for turning it on and off)
<embed src="thesong.mp3" loop="true" autoplay="false" width="145" height="60"/>
This will add the sound without the controller:
<embed src="thesong.mp3" loop="true" hidden="true" autoplay="true" />
With the BGSOUND tag:
<BGSOUND SRC="thesong.mp3" loop="infinite" AUTOSTART="true"/>
Movement
We will explore animation during the next few weeks.
Today, use the story board sheet to plan out a short animation.
Visit the Flipbook site. Try making a short animation and saving it.
(you can use somerville21@gmail.com for the email address)
Also, you can create animations with KidPix and export them as either flash or QTmovies.
What happens in your story?
Something moves from point A to B
Something grows
Something changes from one thing to another
Characters interact
HTML Templates
(hints for customising your pages even more.)
Posted by Eleanor Ramsay at April 10, 2006 03:16 PM