Chapter 9/Chapter 10 Repost

Since I already posted about Lesson 10 last time, I thought I'd do a little summary of Lesson 9 for today. This lesson was all about adding interactive content to a webpage, like video, sound, and flash animation. It doesn't seem like adding multimedia content is super complicated, which is awesome! However, as the book points out, multimedia changes the experience of all of the users, so it's important to think about the value that it's adding to the page. 


Essentially, multimedia creates a more dynamic environment, which is great in terms of interactivity. Having a banner with moving content or a video really draws attention and can let the user have some control. However, I think that flash elements tend to look like ads, which is what the book was using them for, but many users ignore these because they don't want to see ads. I really liked learning how to add video though, as I'm considering incorporating a video onto one of my client's pages. 


Previous post on Lesson 10:
"Chapter 10 was about keeping page elements consistent via snippets, library items, templates, and repeating regions. I think all of these elements and tools are important to keep in mind while designing the client site since we want to keep our designs consistent and cohesive across the pages that we're creating. Snippets are great because they store pieces of code in a library and allow you to just drag and drop them on the page. This is great because you don't have to waste time coding the same element over and over again when it appears in multiple places. Talk about saving time!

Library items are great too, since they link back to a master so you don't have to change each element individually. It's almost like CSS since you can just change the code once to affect all of its instances across the site. Templates will be handy for maintaining coherence and consistency across the difference pages. Since you can create pages from a pre-layed out setup. This means that the editable areas are already there and the structure is already set and ready to go! Repeating regions add a bit more flexibility to templates since they can adapt to the different information on different pages. This helps to shift the template to match what's going on within the individual pages."