Synopses & Reviews
The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language is bringing smiles to the faces of Web developers everywhere. A markup language similar to HTML–and just as simple to use–SMIL lets you easily combine and synchronize text, still images, animations, audio, and video to create Web pages with loads of pizzazz. Don’t worry SMIL is fully supported by most Web browsers, including Internet Explorer 5.5 and Netscape Navigator 6. And, SMIL isn’t just for Web pages. You can use it to enhance multimedia presentations on a CD-ROM, to enliven computer-based training sessions, or just for the fun of it, in a RealPlayer, RealNetworks, or QuickTime multimedia presentation.
SMIL For Dummies is for absolutely anybody–regardless of prior experience–who wants to build scintillating multimedia presentations. Using three full-scale, from-the-ground-up SMIL examples, this friendly guide shows you how to:
- Supercharge your Web site with the full range of multimedia effects
- Build classy multimedia presentations for all occasions
- Work with SMIL syntax
- Fine-tune multimedia placement and timing
- Enhance your presentations with link effects
- Create cool animation and transformation effects
Explore the nearly limitless possibilities SMIL offers for creating gorgeous multimedia presentations. From basic to advanced features, expert Heather Williamson covers all the bases with step-by-step coverage of, among other things:
- Getting the hang of SMIL tags, elements ,and attributes
- Positioning your media, setting up regions, setting a sequence, understanding duration and delay
- Customizing your presentation
- Linking to the proper destinations
- Using links, anchors, and image maps
- Building your own radio station
- Producing your own cartoons
- Making your own movies
Just to make your first SMIL that much more fun, SMIL For Dummies comes with a bonus CD-ROM featuring:
- SMIL Composer from Sausage Software – a SMIL editor
- RealSlideShow from RealNetworks – a SMIL authoring environment
- Evaluation versions of Paint Shop Pro
- A trial version of Hot Dog Professional
- All examples and images from the book
Even if you’ve never so much as seen a line of HTML code, SMIL For Dummies can show you how to unleash the awesome power of synchronized multimedia and create eye-popping Web pages and presentations
Synopsis
SMIL tools and players on CD-ROM
Get the latest on W3C SMIL 2 standards and recommendations
Unleash the power of synchronized multimedia - no experience required! With SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), you can turbocharge your site with video and audio - once you get a handle on how it works, that is. Relax! Using three from-the-ground-up SMIL examples, this friendly guide shows you step-by-step how to build well-designed multimedia presentations - without having to read the SMIL specification. all this on the bonus CD-ROM SMIL Composer from Sausage Software, a SMIL editor RealSlideShow from RealNetworks, a SMIL authoring environment Evaluation versions of Paint Shop Pro and trial version of Hot Dog Professional Plus all examples and images from the book System requirements: PC Pentium 120 or faster; PowerPC Macintosh with a 604 processor or faster. See the About the CD Appendix for details and complete system requirements. Plus leading Internet tools
Discover how to: Integrate multimedia content into your Web pages Build well-designed multimedia presentations Work with SMIL syntax Fine-tune multimedia placement and timing Enhance presentations with link effects
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About the Author
Heather Williamson runs a Web development and consulting business and is the author of several books, including HTML Master Reference.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
PART I: SMILs, Everyone, SMILs: An Overview.
Chapter 1: SMIL, It's Not Candid Camera.
Chapter 2: All About Media Types.
Chapter 3: Building the Framework.
PART II: Putting SMIL to Work.
Chapter 4: Adding a Little SMIL to Your Web Site.
Chapter 5: Displaying the Right Information.
PART III: A Time and Place for Everything.
Chapter 6: Positioning Your Media.
Chapter 7: Setting Up Regions.
Chapter 8: Timing Is Everything.
Chapter 9: Setting a Sequence.
Chapter 10: Timing: It's All Relative ... Unless It's Parallel.
Chapter 11: Customizing Your Presentation.
PART IV: Linking Up.
Chapter 12: Linking to the Proper Destination.
Chapter 13: Using Links, Anchors, and Image Maps.
Chapter 14: Nothing Is Better Than Animations (Except Transformations).
PART V: Multimedia from the Ground Up.
Chapter 15: Building Your Own Radio Station.
Chapter 16: Revisiting the Silent Movie Era.
Chapter 17: Producing Your Own Cartoon.
PART VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 18: Top Ten Rules for Designing a Multimedia Site.
Chapter 19: Top Ten SMIL Research Sites.
Chapter 20: Top Ten SMIL Aggravations.
PART VII: Appendixes.
Appendix A: SMIL Composers and Players.
Appendix B: The SMIL Document Type Definitions.
Appendix C: The XML Background.
Appendix D: About the CD.
Appendix E: SMIL 2.0 Elements and Attributes.
Appendix F: RealPix/RealText Commands.
Index.
IDG Books Worldwide End-User License Agreement.
Installation Instructions.
Book Registration Information.