I’ve seen a number of cases where people have tried to use the eLearningBrothers “print.html” technique to create a custom PDF of information gathered during a lesson. Inevitably it has led to frustration. In one case, the administrator forgot to include this custom file in the course module, and in another, the amount of text was larger than that allowed in a URL and broke the call. The following gets past both of these problems 1. the entire […]
A common e-learning interaction is a set of buttons that activate the display of a particular set of images and text. Often, the items are displayed as an overlay on top of the button set, and a semitransparent grey background is added to de-emphasize the selection buttons. When the learner is done with the displayed information, they click on either the background or a specific “close” button. This is commonly referred to as a “Lightbox.” Captivate has all of the […]
The visual impression of layout and typeface can be profound — something that impacts you long before the actual recognition of meaning. Like art, your impression is immediate and yet mostly unconscious. The use of custom fonts is now commonplace on the web, as a critical element of that visceral first impression. This has been primarily driven by the ability in HTML5 to load fonts from external sources as part of the page, rather than from the operating system. Google provides a […]
