[thelist] web ed

[John Corry]

> Hi everybody, new to the list, name of sandy, email
> address in case my topic bores most of you is
> sjstrahl at sedona.net
>

Right on...welcome!

> I'm wanting to find excellent web design education
> via the Internet or long distance,  (html, javascript, style sheets,
> information architecture, site design, xtml, for starters) and
> am hoping some of you know where to go, or where to
> start looking.

I'm currently a student at Raymond Pirouz's online web communication design
school, R35 Edu (http://www.r35.com/edu). It is a terrific curriculum, and
an even better environment/community. While most of us are capable of
reading a tutorial and figuring out how to solve a particular problem when
we encounter that problem, I'm finding that the knowledge and experience I'm
gaining through school to be invaluable. My work is actually improving!

There are other schools available, I can't really comment though since I've
had no experience with them. If you want, I'd be happy to tell you more
about R35 off list.

...I also have absolutely NO desire to re-hash the argument of whether or
not a (web)design education is of worth or not.

<tip type="flash">
Cool, you can embed variable values in flash by including them in the
embed/object tags.

...src="movie.swf?var=myVar"...

Then, you can use that variable to do all kinds of stuff in your movie.

In AS reference it as level0.var

I'm currently using this in a Flash nav interface to control how the movie
looks depending on which HTML page in the site a user is viewing. Those of
you who are more script-minded that I will undoubtedly find more powerful
uses.
</tip>

thanks,
John Corry
Neon Cowboy Design
http://www.neoncowboy.com