The Graphical User Interface of DESiGN-CONTROL enables users, with no HTML programming knowledge, to easily define where and how rich media elements will be displayed on the website. Rich Media content, such as Video, PowerPoint Slides, Graphics, text and Flash animations, are seamlessly integrated into your website design. This tool provides an easy way for web designers to create customised designs and to maintain a corporate image by allowing an easy way to change colours and to combine logos.

Using simple 'drag & drop' operation allows Web Designers to integrate complex and interactive elements, such as, player controls, chat windows, vote and feedback forms into the web page layout. A 'Web Objects' command allows virtually any web based object to be incorporated into the web page. These could be Flash animations, links to other sites or services.

This powerful tool saves both the page layout and all the 'back-end' technical details, such as the FTP and Media Server IP addresses and file locations. The Web Designer can 'lock down' these details if required to ensure a that robust and trouble free webcast can be made by users and not necessarily by specialist technicians.

We used this tool to create the web page used to present the product tutorial listed below in less than 10 minutes.

The following Rich Media Presentations took us less than an hour to assemble from the required rich media components. Although we had the basic format completed in less than 15 minutes, the remainder of the time was spent in 'fine-tuning' the slide synchronisations to get the desired slide changes within 1/100 of a second. Once we were happy with the finished presentation, we exported it sumultaneously in both REAL and Windows Media formats. We only exported them to a single bandwidth speed but they could have been exported to multiple bandwidth settings for each media presentation format just as easily.

To get the full benefit of the presentation you will need to have a connection speed of 128Kb or better. If you have a slower connection, you should still be able to hear the presentations and see the slides, but the video may be a bit slow. If you want to use these products for your own applications, the presentations can be set to use slower connection speeds and correspondingly smaller video windows.

To see the DESiGN-CONTROL tutorial - Click the links below:

Windows Media Player

Real Player

To produce Rich Media web presentations for both LiVE and on-demand presentations, with no HTML programming knowledge, a range of products is available from EDAS.

	i-CONTROL - For On-Demand Rich Media Encoding Software
	LiVE-CONTROL - Live Rich Media Encoding Software
	Winnov Encoding Appliances

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