Captivate E-Learning Workflow : Scripting
Captivate E-Learning Workflow Scripting Here's the third part in the Captivate Workflow series.. If you missed the first one, about planning a Captivate e-learning workflow, you can find it here. The second in the series was about storyboarding. You can find it here. I've broken the process down into the following sub-topics: Planning Storyboarding Scripting Design Prototyping Functional Prototyping Asset Curation Assembly Testing Deployment Captivate E-Learning Workflow Click to view a larger image Scripting Prerequisites: If you've read my previous article about planning your E-Learning workflow, and storyboarding your e-learning project, you're [...]
Captivate E-Learning Workflow : Storyboarding
Captivate E-Learning Workflow Storyboarding Here's the second part in the Captivate Workflow series. It's a fairly short one, nonetheless still very important in the process. If you missed the first one, about planning a Captivate e-learning workflow, you can find it here. I've broken the process down into the following sub-topics: Planning Storyboarding Scripting Design Prototyping Functional Prototyping Asset Curation Assembly Testing Deployment Captivate E-Learning Workflow Click to view a larger image Storyboarding Prerequisites: If you've read my previous article about planning your E-Learning workflow, you'll already have realised that it would [...]
Captivate E-Learning Workflow : Planning
Captivate E-Learning Workflow Planning Many of my students working in the E-Learning space have asked me about the most efficient process for developing Captivate E-Learning. It's well known that budgets can go straight down the chute if the process isn't adequately planned and managed, so I thought I'd share some ideas that might help. This workflow is by no means perfect, nor complete, and as you would well know by now, everything can be improved , optimised, and re-configured for specific environments. If you have a better workflow, please comment below so that everyone benefits! This post is the [...]
Creating a WordPress Administrator with phpMyAdmin and mySQL
Creating a Wordpress Administrator with phpMyAdmin and mySQL. A tutorial on creating a Wordpress Administrator with phpMyAdmin and mySQL. There are many situations when your Wordpress Dashboard might not be available to you: You've simply lost your Wordpress Administrator login or password. Your website has been hacked. You've taken over an existing website but the previous developer won't part with the password. There are a few more, but at this point you probably want some help creating a WordpressAdministrator with phpMyAdmin and mySQL. This processes discussed in the creating a Wordpress Administrator with phpMyAdmin and mySQL tutorial are reliant on: [...]
Captivate : Importing JSON data using Javascript
Captivate : Importing JSON data using Javascript In the last tutorial I showed you how to use an external javascript file to control Captivate variables for output to an HTML5 project. Because some of the methodology required to use Captivate's Advanced Action WYSISWG editor can be a little laborious to implement (and, to be honest, a little flaky), I tend to use the external Javascript file approach. It allows me to keep all my code in one place instead of having to bounce around Captivate slides to maintain small chunks of slide and object-specific code. This tutorial is going [...]
How to use Javascript in Captivate
Using Javascript in Captivate. There are often times when the simple options available to you in the Captivate interface are either insufficient or laborious to implement, and using Javascript in Captivate is a more robust approach. This tutorial set shows you how to set up the basic framework which will allow you to publish, test and republish an HTML5 Captivate output. This includes: Dynamically including Javascript files in the project. Defining Captivate user-defined variables. Assigning values to built-in Captivate variables as well as user-defined variables. Tools: In this tutorial I'm using Captivate 2017 (Version 10.0.0.192). I use Sublime Text [...]
WordPress : Custom Posts with Formidable Forms
Wordpress Creating Custom Posts with Formidable Forms In the previous tutorial, I showed you how to define a custom post type with CPTUI and Advanced Custom Fields. It should be noted here that neither of these plugins is necessary if you know a little PHP and some of the basic Wordpress function calls. In this tutorial I'm going to show you how to extend the previous tutorial to create Custom Posts with Formidable Forms. I've targeted these exercises to Wordpress administrators who may not be at total geek-level, hence the use of plugins. If you'd completed the previous tutorial, you [...]
WordPress Custom Post Type : Testimonial Posts
Creating a Custom Post Type could be a little complicated. But there's a few ways that you can try creating a custom post type with a little less pain. First of all, let's have a look at what the basic requirements are: You'll need to define the Custom Post Type somewhere that Wordpress will know in order to show you the button and other links on your Dashboard toolbar. In addition, you'll probably want some taxonomies (ie: categories) to assign to your Custom Post Type. You'll probably want to have some custom fields in your Custom Post Type (other than just the [...]
Cropping and centering fixed-size elements with CSS
Cropping and centering fixed-width elements with CSS Cropping and centering fixed-width elements with CSS seems, at first view, a fairly simple procedure. But in truth, it's actually a little more complicated. This week, one of my students asked me if I could show him how to make sure that the mid-point of an image always remained in the dead center of it's container as the browser window was scaled. It's fairly simple to use responsive CSS to scale the image down as the container resizes with the browser, but this wasn't the goal - the requirement was that the image [...]
WordPress website migration : Step-by-step.
Wordpress website migration A number of my students this week asked me for a set of step-by step instructions on how to perform a Wordpress website migration successfully. Although there are many ways to achieve this through Wordpress plugins and server-based processes, what I've decided to do is show how you can achieve this with simple file and database backups. Essentially, a successful Wordpress website migration involves the following steps (performed on either local, staging or live server) : Back up the Wordpress files on the current server . Back up the database on the current server. Move the files to the destination server (via [...]
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