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Roles - Designer vs Coders

Course contents
SECTION: 6
Warnings & errors 1:10
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Width tool 5:23
SECTION: 14
Project 9:34
SECTION: 15
Buttons 12:14
SECTION: 17
Bone Tool 6:53
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Stop looping with JS 1:45
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Conclusion 1:37

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Course info

53 lessons / 5 hours

Overview

This course is for visual, creative people who need to start making HTML5 banner ads. I made this course for people that are struggling to get their heads around the new world of HTML5 advertising. This course is step by step with exercise files. I’ve saved a copy of each Adobe Animate file after every video so if you get lost you can compare your files to my completed files. At the end you’ll be able to create, test and upload standard banner ads.

This course is perfect for people completely new to the digital advertising world. We’ll cover all the basics. It’s also great for people who previously worked in Adobe Flash to produce SWF advertising.

Because this is such a new industry I’ll be around to help you with any questions. Use the forums on the pages and I’ll respond.

Thanks for considering my course. If you’re not sure if it’s right for you. Simply sign up, try it out and if you’re not happy I’ll refund you no problem. - Dan.

What are the requirements?

  • You'll need a copy of Adobe Animate CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.

  • No previous Adobe Animate or digital advertising knowledge is necessary.

  • If you're not sure if this course is right for you. Email me what you’re trying to do and check if you’re on the right track.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 53 lectures 3 hours of content!

  • Forum support from me. 

  • How to build banner advertising

  • How to keep file sizes down.
  • Firm understanding of the publishing process for ad networks like Google Doubleclick, Adwords, Simek etc. 

  • Professional workflows and shortcuts. 

  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

  • YES: This course is for beginners. For people who prefer not to work in code. Visual people. Creative people. Graphic designers. Marketers. Past users of Flash.

  • NO: This course is not for developers. This course will cover standard animated banners. Not dynamic banners like expanding banners, video banners or game banners. 

Course duration 5 hours + your study.

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

Downloads & Exercise files

Transcript

Alright in this video were going to talk about the roles of designer and developer when it comes to HTML5 ads. So there are going to betimes where the designers only need themselves and that’s it. So if you're going to say the ad works network which is pretty easy to do you just need yourself, design it, add a little bit of code which well do at the end of this in publishing. And that’s all you don’t need the help from anybody else. If you're putting it on your own site it’s the same, you can do it all yourself. If you're going out into some of the bigger networks, ad networks. Like Google double click or sizmec what happens is there are lots of different ways they can measure your ad and you might be paying for it, it used to just be paying for impressions, how many people see your ad that’s how much you pay. Now there's lots of crazy things where you can do bits where only they're interacting with it, only if it’s viewable on the page at that time. So there's lots of little measurements that can be done.

So quite often what happens in those bigger situations is that you'll need your designer to do the visual communication side of it, designing the add. And then often you'll need to pass your adobe animate file on to a developer for them to add a little bit of metrics that can be quite complicated for somebody who’s not a code based developer, so often that’s what happens. So some of the bigger networks. What can also happen is that some agencies, what they're doing is they're getting the designer to design it then they're handing over the adobe animate files and the developers pretty much not using it at all other than just as a visual, they're not going to use any of your code. They're going to look at it and pick through the code and pick out your images that you’ve made and they might pick out little bits but they're going to actually rebuild it in something like green socks or do it themselves in createJS so just find out what the process is going to be for you at your job whether you're the all person or whether you're going to get help from somebody or send it on to somebody else to pick through.

Another thing is I'm talking a little bit fast, I told you I had a coffee in the last one, it hasn’t worn off because its only been 2 minutes since the last video. A good little tip though is in these videos they’ll be a little gear icon, I cant remember what side it is. They’ll be a little settings icon and you'll be able to play around with the speed so you might want to slow me down, just because I talk naturally really fast and coffee doesn’t help. So yeah, you can slow it down to maybe half speed if you're finding it a little fast. If you're finding you want to blaze through this you might speed it up to 1.5 and I can talk like a chipmunk. Alright, ill see you in the next video.

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