Fernando Mol
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I learned HTML in the middle 90’s. The sources I read don’t exist anymore. But you can take a look at https://www.w3schools.com
I don’t remember learning CSS in only one place. It was a more complex process than HTML because I already have learned how to style pages using only HTML and I have to re-learn many things.
You can take a look at Abraham’s tutorial about CSS, here in the COW.
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Hi, Tamara, here some ideas that may help you.
If you are a designer, then you know first you need content.
If you have to design an ad for a new car. The client then give you the tag line, the text, the picture of the car, the contact information, maybe a list of benefits. Then you put them in logical order, give them structure and integrate all of them in a beautiful printed ad.
For a web page first you need the content too. Then, in HTML you put it in logical order and give it structure.
HTML are just a bunch of tags. One for a header, one for each paragraph, one if you want to display an image, another for the links.
Then, you use CSS to make those tags beautiful.
You need the font of your header to be big and pink? Make a CSS rule for the header. You need to place an image in the background? Make another CSS rule.
For a graphic designer this will be the very essential. Of course, you need to master image generation software, like Photoshop or Illustrator, but I’m sure you already are .
Many Graphic Designers learn flash, but Flash is more for animation and multimedia.
The rest of the web stuff is more for developers, but with time you may get into it (javascript, php, etc.)
I hope this basic ideas can help you.
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Very specific what you want. It may sound like an e-commerce template (google for some), but I don’t know about the upload tool.
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In short words: You can create a Flash movie with your transparent video inside and add a transparent property to the window mode of the swf inside the HTML, then, place the Flash inside an absolute or fixed positioned div.
If you are not familiar with those concepts you may learn them one by one. Writing a full tutorial of the process is way too far for a single post, but you can go step by step and ask if you have any problems.
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It’s a quicktime movie and it plays smoothly in Firefox and IE on Windows XP.
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Sorry, forgot to paste the link.
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/embedding-quicktime-movies.php
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Here’s a tutorial about embedding quicktime movies. Look for the “autostart” attribute.
I enjoyed the video.
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I read this story about an hospital. In the emergency department the people never complies about their work. You know, they way their bosses are or how ugly is the decoration in the toilet room. They were so focused on the job (saving lifes) that simply there was no time to do so.
Sometimes, when I’m in a difficult situation I use this mental trick “Ok, whatever, but what I’m going to do to save this project?”.
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I work on whatever format I have recoded, SD or HD (maybe you’ll need it later for a DVD or a Demo Reel). No compression.
Then, with the final video, I reconvert it to the new resolution. No compression.
And finally, I compress the video.
It’s very important to work with uncompressed video until the very end (if it’s possible for your computer). Different codecs use different ways to sample the video and you can really mess the information within a file if you compress a compressed file. Be aware the NTSC DV format is a compressed one.
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Hi, Connor
It seems to be a very alpha site. I’ll wait to see more content.
It’s a good practice to define your background color, even if it’s white.
Also, your title has dark text over a dark background with a dark shadow. Remember contrast creates impact (yes, I know you have the white emboss). The same goes for the light red lines with a light glow.
The color scheme is nice. Simple, but nice.
In the code you have your keywords and description meta tags defined but no content. Add some (can you?).
Upload your demo reel, I’d love to see it.