Month: August 2008

A workaround for the lack of trigger animations in Keynote

One Powerpoint feature that Keynote does not yet have is animation triggers. In Powerpoint, you can set an animation to be triggered when a particular object elsewhere on the slide is clicked. This can be used to create interactivity for web-based elearning, or perhaps for presentations where there is some interaction from the audience and the exact sequence of clicks is not figured out in advance.

A workaround to create a trigger effect is to make the triggers into hyperlinks that link to slides that look identical to the slide containing the trigger, but which contain the response animation. For each trigger, there will be a corresponding animation slide. The animations are set to begin “after transition” or in other words, right after the slide loads.

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Getting the WYSIWYG module to work in Drupal 6

I had a lot of trouble getting TinyMCE text editor to work consistently in Drupal 5.9, so when I installed Drupal 6 and was scanning through the available modules, I was very glad to see that the WYSIWYG editor module could function as a replacement.

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Although the easy-to-use WYSIWYG editor is popular with our site’s users, sometimes I find it gets in the way, and want to turn it off.
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