Writing for New Media

You'll be using the profile template to assemble the pieces of your first project.

For the audio clip, you have two choices. Choose ONE of these:

• Use RealAudio (what we did in class last week):
  
  
  
  1. Capture your audio in Audition and save it as a .wav file.
     
  2. Run your audio file through RealProducer to produce a .rm file.
     
  3. Create a one-line .ram text file with the full URL of the .rm file (e.g., http://tiger.towson.edu/~astudent1/profileaudio.rm).
     
  4. Create a link in your .html file (either in the text or in the sidebar) to the .ram file (e.g., Listen to Frank Smith speak about making doughnuts.).
     
  5. Upload all three files (.html, .ram and .rm) and you're set.
     
  
  
• Use Flash audio (looks nicer and isn't as hard as this might seem at first glance):
  
  
  
  1. Save your audio file as an .mp3 with the filename of audioclip.mp3. If you want to do this, I advise you do NOT use Audition 1.0. You can use version 2.0 (which should now be installed in VB 207) or instead use Audacity (which you can download free and use at home). To use Audacity, you will need to download and install Audacity, then download and unzip the LAME encoder (instructions are here -- it's very easy). You must choose File>Export to save the file as an .mp3; the first time you do so, you'll have to tell the program where you saved the LAME files.
     
  2. Go to Mindy McAdams' instruction page and download the audio_button.swf (right-click on the link).
     
  3. Connect to your Tiger account. Open your WWW folder. Click MKDIR to make a new folder. Name it "flash"
     
  4. Open the flash folder. Click MKDIR to make a new folder. Name it "audio_button"
     
  5. Open the audio_button folder. Click MKDIR to make a new folder. Name it "audio1"
     
  6. Open the audio1 folder and upload both the audioclip.mp3 and audio_button.swf files.
  7. If you've followed these steps exactly, you will not have to do anything in the html code to make your clip play.