A visual authoring system for animated multimedia homepage

Abstract

The WWW has become a powerful media for knowledge displacement and acquisitions for Internet users. For Internet content providers, Homepage is the common way to let users to know were the contents are placed. Currently, there are many Homepage design tools available Express, Flash, HotDog,... to name a few. While making an animated multimedia Homepage, most of these design tools have to use their extended programming features such as achieve this goal. For general users, especially for the non-computer professional users, to write java program to make an animated multimedia Homepage is not an easy job. In this paper a visual authoring system for general users to make an animated multimedia Homepage is proposal. Based on this tool, users can create an animated any program ol code. The proposed authoring tool has been technology transferred to the Best Wise International Computing Cooperation for product development. Examples shown in this paper ar-e created based on the WebFace Maker: (A product of the Best Wise International Computing Co.) which is a product developed using the proposed technology.