Javascript Made Easy: Start Enriching Your Gaming Or Media Site
This year there has been a lot of rumour around the release of HTML 5. It does have some great rich features, but thats not what this article is about. Why? Because of the browser legacy the average gaming- or media portal is facing Especially sites trying to target a worldwide audience can bump into serious browser issues. Per continent you have different versions of browsers you have to consider when developing. Even Internet Explorer 6 still has a big enough market share you have to take it into account.

We all know how frustrating it alone can be to develop a combination of HTML and CSS that will work on IE 6, 7, 8+, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and so on. Especially when it comes to designing web sites for IE 6, this normally causes a lot of headaches in the web designer community. Put this together with writing compatible JavaScript and frustration frenzy can start! I must say things get better, but still This article is written to help you make your developer life easier. I have chosen to write this article about jQuery, because I have good experiences with this product. There are also other frameworks out there, like for example Mootools and ExtJS. Just search for JavaScript frameworks on a search engine and you will find a bunch.

The jQuery framework is so called open source software, making your JavaScript (and possible CSS) life a lot easier. There is a whole community behind the framework writing additions to it, helping each other and thus save a lot of work. You can just use this plugins on top of the basic jQuery framework. With this little helper you dont have to know JavaScript inside out anymore; with just easy lines of code you can create functionality that would have normally taken you days or weeks to create. This starts off with easy functionality like fading, swapping, scrolling and show/hide content. Not really exciting maybe

The real strength lies in the plug-ins that have specially been developed for this framework and take some every day development work from your hands. This goes from easy embed of video and flash content, to drag and drop, advanced AJAX functionality and a lot more just at your fingertips! The product has excellent support from extensive manuals and an active community. The jQuery is supported with excellent documentation, shared tutorials and an active forum. Here you can ask all of your jQuery related questions.

Still I have noticed some essential functionalities lack in jQuery for a gaming or media portal. The first one would be a script showing advertising in front of the game, while it is preloading. Some refer to it as game preloader with ads. I have used it on my Balloon Tower Defense portal. Another would be a decent frontend for rating content (mostly a 5-star rating module). I have already written a tutorial for showing ads while a game is loading, you can find it here: http://www.balloontowerdefense.net/jquery-preloader/jquery-preloader.html. It is complete with all the files you need and a working example of the code you can even copy-paste.

For now you should start of playing around with the framework and learn the basics. This is very important, in case you want to get the most out of it. All the information you require can be found on jQuery.com.

What To Look For In A Provider Of Media Services

There are many companies out there on the Internet offering media services, which range from training for a firm’s staff in all aspects of dealing with the media to highly effective film work created with the intention of presenting your company at its best to an external audience.  

The following are what you should look for in the offerings of a good media services provider:

The Affordability and Flexibility of Media Services

The services of the best companies should, naturally, be affordable. It is important that you establish that a company’s offerings represent good value. 

The best providers of media services will be able to cater adequately for the exact needs of your company. It is helpful to find a company that provides the full range of media services that you require so that you need not look to another firm, and indeed the best will offer everything from presentation training to films and from training days to crisis communications training. The best providers will custom-build their courses and services to fulfil your individual needs as one of their clients. 

For example, those companies that provide film work should be able to take your individual brief and turn it into a film that conveys the most important messages to your target audience. In-between that first, tentative stage and final delivery, they should be able to produce a good proposal on the basis of your company’s specified individual needs, and on your approval, create high quality film work in the format of your choice that communicates your firm’s aims and values. 

Those that provide training courses, meanwhile, should build their courses around your firm’s exact needs, incorporating such courses and elements as presentation training or crisis communications training, practical or theoretical exercises to the extent to which each are required. You may even appreciate the option to have the training take place at a venue that you have chosen yourself, such as at your own workplace, as well as the option for it to take place at their premises.

The Importance of Experience and Expertise

Something else that it certainly helps to find in a good provider of media services is a great degree of high-level media knowledge and expertise. It is well worth, for example, checking with your chosen provider that their training courses have been built with the aid of the most experienced and knowledgeable broadcasters and journalists, including those who have occupied positions at the most senior editorial and presenter levels. 

As far as film work is concerned, it is important to look out for a company that has experience of creating films in your particular sector. The best of them will have a list of past satisfied clients including some of the UK’s best known brands. Pay attention to whether the provider that you are considering boasts this kind of all-encompassing track record of projects, or whether it specialises in a certain field, for example, education, transport or the energy and construction sectors. Lastly, make sure that the chosen provider prides itself on a good standard of customer service.

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