Lab 9
Well this is it ladies and gentlemen, after I complete this lab I have completed another course here at Ohio Wesleyan University…well almost, I still have lab 10 which is an overall course recap, but it does not involve anymore work on the HTML pages themselves…so here is the skinny on lab 9…
First I had to start off by creating the animations by using Ulead GIF Animator ( a pretty fitting name for the program). This was pretty easy to figure out with the help of the Ulead GIF Animator packet that was circulating throughout the class. All you really need to do is locate the layers heading on the toolbar and then click add images. After that, select the images that you would like to animate. You are able to move the pictures in different orders by using the move up/move down buttons also located on the toobar at the top of the page. And that’s pretty much it. Another helpful tool that you can use is the delay, or how long you want to wait until the next map shows up. You can test this out beucause you do not want the speed of the cycle to be too fast, and you do not want it to be too slow either. I went with about one second for my map animations. It is about the perfect speed, in my opinion You can select preview to view a relatively quick run through of what the animation will look like. After I got done saving these animations to the HTML folder (THIS WAS WHY I COULD NOT PUT THE IMAGES ON THE WEBPAGES BEFORE!!!) Such a silly mistake…Anywho i was now able to put the animations on the animations page and they look pretty spiffy if I do say so myself. I also added some text describing each of the maps that are located on this page. I also added some links such as the census bureau to give them some credit for the information that I have mapped. I have made other adjustments as well such as background color (but I’m stil fiddling with it to make it look as good as possible. By making a few adjustments and adding text to each of my pages I have finally completed the Geography 535 course project.
