Adobe Flash or Javascript jQuery with HTML5? Which one is more popular?

A lot of debates (dvice, digital trends, tfts) have taken place over the announcement made by Steve Jobs that Flash sucks (I’m paraphrasing, but really, that’s what he said). As always, on one side (HTML5/jQuery) we have the “open” systems camp raising issues like usability, eye-candy is useless, etc. On the other side (Flash) we have the “closed” systems camp arguing that HTML5 and jQuery cannot do what Flash can. To some extent, both sides are right, and wrong. But what does the actual data show about trends in using these technologies? Looking at the results, some things are confirmed,...
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Folder Structure – The Ultimate Guide to an Organized Folder Structure for Multimedia

Folder structure organization is one of the most important and critical steps to success.You are at your computer, scrambling to find the right file to work on. You keep opening files, but it’s not the right one that you need. You need to find that file now – you have a deadline but you are stuck looking through a pile of files, not knowing which one is the one you need. On top of that, many different people have worked on the project before you. They have all used different ways to name each file, and to store files in non-related locations. You need: The Ultimate Guide to Organized...
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Personal Development Plan Template: How to create your own learning and development plan

If you need a personal development plan template, or a career development plan, read on. A few years ago I stumbled upon a well known success principle of setting goals. I never developed a habit of writing goals down, having targets, and all of that fancy pudding – so this really wasn’t my strength. I always thought there is something endlessly uncool about writing my dreams and desires on a piece of paper.
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Building New Teams: Establishing, building, and managing creative and technical teams

Building new teams is an often required activity in today’s organization. A lot of research points to teams being the most basic building block of companies. There are several reasons for this: teams are more productive, they make better decisions, and they create better products providing better services. Ultimately, team membership leads to more engaged and productive staff. But none of the positive aspects that teams can bring to an organization can be realized if the conditions are not right. So how do we build new teams? More importantly – how do we create the right conditions...
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Multimedia Process – Part 3 of 3

The crucial steps in multimedia development that will provide you with a road map to successful multimedia projects have been outlined in the first two parts. In this last part of the 6-phase multimedia development process, we look at delivery and project closure phases in more detail. At this stage most of the work has been completed and we are concerned only with making sure that the correct people have access to the work we have produced. Once all is said and done, we look into what we have learned delivering another award-winning multimedia project.
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Multimedia Process – Part 2 of 3

Now that we’ve covered the setup and requirements phases, time to move on to the actual work. This involves the design and development phases in which we make design decisions and carry out the planned work.
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Multimedia Process – Part 1 of 3

Multimedia process is a process that helps you to deliver consistent quality to your interactive multimedia projects. Once you’ve gone through the same (or at least similar) steps in producing a multimedia project, you start to realise that you could probably put a step-by-step process that will help you guide your next project.
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RIA: Healthy Thinking Diary Application

Healthy Thinking Institute were developing an online eLearning course as part of their programme to help people cope with stress. Part of the course required that the users store their results they have captured through interactions throughout the course. At the same time, they should be able to store their own thoughts and feelings in an application for later review.
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Website: Da Sette Soldi Restaurant

Da Sette Soldi is an Italian restaurant in Epsom, Auckland with a very loyal and regular clientele. After having a simple website for a year, an updated version of the website is launched.
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Website: Karin Ruppeldt, PhDr

Karin Ruppeldt is a practicing registered clinical psychologist that has never before had a personal brand or a website. I helped Karin clarify her website goals and developed a new brand and website.
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