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Welcome to the support site for Digital Multimedia, 3rd edition. This completely revised and re-illustrated edition of our most popular textbook was published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. on 20th February 2009.
Web Design: A Complete Introduction
If you are primarily interested in Web Design, you should consider Web Design: A Complete Introduction, either as a complement to or as a replacement for Digital Multimedia. Visit the support site www.webdesignbook.org, where you will find a wide range of teaching and learning materials and a sampler of pages from the book. You can now purchase individual chapters from Web Design: A Complete Introduction at the MacAvon Media Downloads Store.
The current edition of Digital Media Tools, the practically-oriented companion text to Digital Multimedia, is the 3rd edition, published in October 2007. It has its own support site at www.digitalmediatools.org, where you will find a wide range of teaching and learning materials including exercise files relevant to some chapters in Digital Multimedia. Individual chapters from Digital Media Tools are available to buy or as free downloads from the MacAvon Media Downloads Store.
Digital Multimedia is the best-selling core text for undergraduate and masters courses in the exciting discipline of multimedia, combining a broad and deep account of technology with an inside understanding of multimedia content and its practical application.
The digital representation of images, video, animation, sound and text has become integrated in every part of our lives and their combination into multimedia is routine. Digital multimedia is often interactive. People can interact with multimedia using playback controls, or more innovatively using direct manipulation, and they can interact through multimedia – user interfaces that incorporate multimedia elements permit new ways of working with data and computation.
Beginning with an overview of the nature of multimedia and digital representations, the book continues with chapters devoted to each media type, detailing how they are represented in digital form and how they are created and manipulated on computers. Later chapters describe how media may be combined and how scripting may be used to add interactivity. Whole chapters are devoted to visual design and accessibility, and to how multimedia may be delivered over the Internet.
The book has been completely re-designed, with improved layout and new teaching and learning features. The 3rd edition includes a full set of keypoints for each chapter and new exercises. An extensive glossary of important terms is provided. Lecture slides of the keypoints and answers to test exercises will soon be available on this site. This new support site will provide an extended range of teaching and learning resources, similar to those found on www.webdesignbook.org, the site for our text Web Design: A Complete Introduction.
Extra resources and materials for practical work are available at the new support site for Digital Media Tools.
Please contact us if you have any queries or suggestions relating to the 3rd edition of Digital Multimedia or this new support site.
Publication Details
Digital Multimedia, 3rd ed., by Nigel Chapman and Jenny Chapman. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., February 2009. 736 pages.
ISBN-10: 0-470-51216-4 (PB), ISBN-13: 978-0-470-51216-6 (PB)