Ampersand

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Quick Tip

When wanting to use an ampersand, the correct way to insert it in XHTML code is to use the ampersand, followed by the text amp, followed with a semicolon. I f I was to do this now it would appear as an ampersand, &.

Changing menu buttons to clean images

Hi Friends!

I discovered something valuable in Photoshop yesterday that I want to share with you all. So, I decided not to use regular CSS buttons in my menu, and instead wanted to use an image of a record. Away I went and found and image of a recorded that I imported into Photoshop and fixed up a little bit and deleted the white background, assuming that once it was inserted to my webpage that the white background would disappear. This was not the case.

What you need to do is save it for Web and Devices. The image will appear and you will have to individually delete the pixels in the background. Finally after a few attempts, I was able to insert a perfect circular image that resembled a record.

Peer Feedback

For the system plan Peer Feedback, I have responded to the htree people in my group:
Fiona WIlliams
Hai Yang Sun
Nguyen Thi Be Ha


All were great!

Finally a code to swap QT Vids!

AFter many attempts, I stumbled on some very useful code while consuming my lunch the other day. I did have to alter it quite a bit and figure out how to stop it playing as soon as the QT uploads. After the video and code was complete, I include an image as a link. YAYA! NOw I just need to figure out the CSS code to tidy it up a bit.

Please see below for the code that assisted me greatly.

Link to code

QUICKTIME

I thought since it was possible and relatively easy to create a simple imgae swap with a main marquee, I could do the same with quicktime videos. This is not the case as all browsers are different and the JS code is a lot more complicated than I expected.

Tonight I am hoping to convert my original quictime files to FLV files and create a moving carousel using a website called Thomix.

Fingers crossed this works tonight.

Will report back later.

cheers

Embedding Media

Quicktime has become a big old mess this week!

Before I get to that, I have a few words about youtube. So when it was set up, it was providing users with the code to embed videos. Since media corporations and corporations in general caught on to how valuable the site was to promote whatever, music companies have stopped allowing supporters like myself the right to embed the code! And have disabled the ability to embed the URL. Riduclous!

Therefore I have limited videos that I want on my site and have had to be nonselective in choices.