Thursday, February 07, 2008

Making an eBook

Building an eBook with InDesign and Acrobat

Given at Digital Media Publishing on 7 February 2008 - updated from earlier years

This is a walk through the process from choosing a text to delivering a PDF. Of course, there is a mass of detail left out.

Monday, February 04, 2008

Tools for Project Management and Collaboration

for New Product Development

Given at Oxford Brookes on Monday 12 Feb 2007

The internet used to be the information highway but now we have another use for it; collaborative working and communicating. The web has become a collaboration space.

WIKI page for this here

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Graphic Design for the WEB

Principles and Practice

Given at Oxford Brookes / Web Media on 15 October 07

Graphic design is an important part of our work. There are certain issues to consider even before we get to the screen as medium.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Desktop Creativity 2.0

In an online world where everyone can be a publisher - MySpace, FaceBook, Blogger.com, Flickr etc

Given at Multimedia Educators of Denmark on 12 April 2007

Where does the screen media developer and web designer fit in?
Where does the Publisher fit in?
Are there opportunities? Are there threats?
And what should we teach?

see the Wiki for this topic here

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

XML Explanations

What is this XML stuff? Marking time, marking up.

Given at Brookes Lecture on 27 March 07

In this very short presentation I am going to cover the basics of XML.

We can try to describe what XML is but it would be best to go through some examples:

Friday, November 17, 2006

Keeping Content and Presentation Separate

something about CSS (cascading style sheets)

Given at MA Interactive Media on 15 November 06

Here are some good books on CSS

Monday, November 13, 2006

Electronic Publishing

Defined

Given at Brookes Lecture to BA Publishing on Tuesday 14 November 2006

• electronic
• Of, relating to, or produced by means of electronics: electronic navigation; electronic books
• Of, implemented on, or controlled by a computer or computer network
• publishing
• To issue or cause to be issued for sale to the public (copies of a book, writing, engraving, piece of music, or the like); said of an author, editor, or spec. of a professional publisher
• Here is my wiki page for this topic
  

Monday, November 06, 2006

Creative Tools for Screen Media

the computer is a medium and a tool

Given at Oxford Brookes for Interactive Media Publishing on Wednesday 8 November 2006

I have written elsewhere about Authoring Tools and Idea Drawing. This presentation makes use of these and other earlier pieces.