Learning Corel WebMaster Suite – Web Graphics
Intermediate Level Disk
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Overview:
This video, from the Learn2.com Tutorials by ViaGrafix series, takes you beyond preliminary
issues, into creativity and special effects. I recommend this Learning
Video for people who plan to take their web pages beyond simple formatted
text and images, using sound, image maps, 3D, etc.
Chapter One: Web Page Design
The lessons plunge you immediately into web design. You are shown how to
place a tiled GIF image as the WebPage background and add a music file.
The steps are shown clearly, so there shouldn’t be any difficulty following
them, even though you may need to play the lesson more than once before
you master the skill.
The section on Hyperlinks and Bookmarks continues from where the previous
Web Design tape left off. Although both are stand-alone lessons, this is
a more advanced lesson.
Creating an email hyperlink is the last part of the first lesson. At
this point, I felt that I had skills enough to create an adequate web page,
and I wondered where the rest of the tape would take me.
Chapter Two: Enhancing Your Web Page
The lesson shows how to place clipart from the Corel Web.Designer program
into the web page, using a simple drag-and-drop method. (Don’t be confused
by the narrators frequent references to JIF peanutbutter – she’s talking
about GIF images.) Attach URL’s to your images by following the steps
in the next section of the chapter.
Why be satisfied with just one URL when you can map your images to link
multiple sites? The lesson shows how to link parts of a single image to
France, Egypt, India, China and Australia, using rectangles, circles and
polygon shapes as hotspots.
Chapter Three: Merging Files
Old pages and New Pages can be merged. Forms can be inserted into your
web page, where visitors can enter information in an interactive fashion.
CGI scripts are explained along with the forms. Though these programs
can’t be created from within the suite, they can be incorporated into the
pages.
Chapter Four: Web.Draw and Web.PhotoPaint
Users of CorelDRAW and Corel PhotoPaint will find these interfaces familiar,
but this part of the tape shows how the graphic features are used specifically
with web pages. For example, alternate text can be assigned even before
the graphic is created. No prior knowledge of the programs is assumed,
and the explanation starts with a definition of the different kinds of
graphics.
Chapter 5: Animations and 3D Graphics
Corel Web.Move and Corel Web.World are additional parts of the Web.Design
suite. This part of the tape describes how to use these programs to add
interest to web pages.
The lesson starts by describing the interface, moves on to explain props,
actors, cells, frames and sounds, and how they are used to create animated
images. Rotating an actor, or sending it romping across the desert is exciting,
and surprisingly easy, when you can see how it’s done.
The last part of Chapter 5 takes you into a new world. You are shown
how to create and move about in a 3D environment. After you have created
it, you preview it in your web page and move through it, looking and turning
in all directions.
This tape introduced me to the mysteries behind web features I never
thought I could reproduce. I loved this one.