Creating animations in Fireworks

There are plenty of tutorials on the web that will show you how to use Fireworks to make animations. Here is one:

http://www.peachpit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=flash&seqNum=370

While you might not be able to produce high end kinetic typography with these – you can make stuff move (including text) so it’s an easier alternative to learning After Effects. Have fun and have a great long weekend!

Te[XT][C]hnology: A Play (on words) in FIVE ACTS

(performed at Electrofringe 2003 – Text and Technology panel by Lisa Gye)

Absolute fear would then be the first encounter of the other as other: as other than I and as other than itself. I can answer the threat of the other as other (than I) only by transforming it into another (than itself), through alternating it in my imagination, my fear, or my desire. Jacques Derrida

INNOVATION. Always ‘dangerous’.
Gustave Flaubert

Read on >>>

Fireworks layout

For those of you interested in using Fireworks to create layouts that can be exported as CSS, images and html to Dreamweaver, see http://www.entheosweb.com/fireworks/CS4/css_export.asp

Penguin’s new digital fiction

Post-hypertext fiction ? Or more hype?

Authors collaborate with game designers to retell six classic stories in a project led by Penguin UK called We Tell Stories.

The words Penguin uses to describe the project are interesting:

• its “most ambitious digital writing project to date.”
• “Penguin has challenged some of its top authors to create new forms of story – designed specially for the internet.”
• “creating tales that take full advantage of the immediacy, connectivity and interactivity that is now possible.”
• “These stories could not have been written 200, 20 or even 2 years ago.”

What do you think?

And if you’re wondering about Penguin’s choice of using game designers for the project, listen to episode 108 of CBC’s tech show Spark. It interviews game design gurus Jesse Schell and Kevin Kell, with Jesse Schell predicting the “gameification” of much more of our lives, including education (!?).

Free web hosting

The following link will take you to a good free webhost

http://www.000webhost.com/

This might be a more robust way to host your own site than Opax  – you get 1500mb Disk Space and 100gb free transfer a month.

Nice intro tutorials on Dreamweaver CS4

The following is a nice intro tutorial for working with Dreamweaver CS4.  The author has other short Dreamweaver tutorials available on youtube.