Adding Multimedia to Web Pages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Desired Effect Tools to use Examples and How-To
Animated GIFS
  • GIF Animator
  • GIF Construction Set

GIF animators are Simple to use.
GIF animator is best

Adding Background Sound

  • Make .wav in any sound editor such as Goldwave
  • And then embed by putting tags into html:
  • For Netscape: Embed tags
  • For Internet Explorer: BGSOUND tags
  • ( Should add both to page as in example)

OR

  • Stream the audio to avoid waiting
    for the entire file to download by doing  the following: compressing .wav into .ra
    or .rm file using RealMedia, then creating .ram text file that says pnm://www.unc.edu/directory/soundfile.rm
  • For embedding, look at source code for this page:
  • For streaming, see my example

Adding Video

  • Make .mpeg or .mov (Quicktime movie) file by using digital video camera, regular video camera, TV, VCR and use embed src tags (see example and look at source code)


OR

  • make Real Media file (.rm) and .ram txt file (pnm://www.unc.edu/yourdirectory/     yourvideofile.rm) to stream video
Animation without plug-ins
  • DHTML using Dreamweaver
Animation/Interactivity with Plug-ins
  • Use Macromedia Director and Shockwave Plug-in
  • Use Flash and Flash Plug-in
(Flash is a scaled-down version of Director. Note: Dreamweaver, Flash and Director software are all from Macromedia