Author › Chris Converse
Chris Converse graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in graphic design. He began his career in print, designing and preparing digital files for commercial offset printing. Chris has spent the last 15 years studying and applying design and interface principles to technology. His work spans various distribution media (CD-ROMs, web sites, and interactive DVDs) and applies many authoring media and techniques (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, image optimization, motion graphics, Flash, Director, Shockwave, sound engineering, digital video compression, PHP, and ASP). Chris has a passion for and a commitment to conceiving, creating, and delivering the best possible user experience, regardless of the medium.
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Learn to create an engaging, interactive, and animated timeline with HTML and jQuery.
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Learn techniques in Photoshop to make sprite sheet creation fast and versatile.
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Discover how to use the complete Edge Animate toolset to lay out and animate motion graphics for your website, mobile devices, digital magazine, iBooks, and more
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Tell a more compelling story in Edge Animate with an animated infographic.
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Simulate the look of anti-aliased fonts in your next website mockup with Photoshop.
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Learn to edit video and add custom graphics and animations to your projects with Photoshop CS6 Extended.
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Implement and customize a sortable photo gallery with jQuery.
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Learn to speed up your design and production time in Photoshop with the use of Smart Objects.
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Use Edge Animate and HTML5, jQuery, and CSS to create a custom, interactive homepage marquee.
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Discover how to use Photoshop layer comps to storyboard your interaction designs.
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Shows you how to use clipping masks to create interesting design effects in Photoshop, while leaving the original images unharmed and ready for further edits.
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Create a randomized animation with just a few lines of JavaScript and Edge Animate.
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Build a dynamic sliding tabbed panel from scratch using a combination of HTML, CSS, jQuery, and the tools in Dreamweaver.
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Build a dynamic sliding tabbed panel from scratch using a combination of HTML, CSS, and jQuery.
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Make your website more readable and efficient to download with Chris Converse's responsive website techniques.
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Shows how to convert text or graphics into a mouse-sensitive tooltip with HTML and jQuery.
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Shows how to convert text or graphics into a mouse-sensitive tooltip with jQuery and Dreamweaver.
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Find out how to add stylized dropdown menus in Dreamweaver using HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
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Find out how to add stylized dropdown menus to your web site using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
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Combines the use of Adobe InDesign and Digital Publishing Suite to add an interactive web experience to your digital magazine.
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Discover how to create an app-like experience for iPad with HTML, CSS, and jQuery, while bypassing the need for Objective-C or the App Store.
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Integrate video into an EPUB destined for the Apple iBookstore or a web site.
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Add a wraparound effect to your homepage marquee with a concise bit of jQuery code.
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Add a wraparound effect to your homepage marquee with Dreamweaver and a concise bit of jQuery code.
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Discover how to create and embed a photo gallery, portfolio, or product catalog into a single, interactive PDF file—with one line of code.
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Shows how to create an FAQ section for a web site with questions that have expandable and collapsible answers, using an adaptable combination of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery.
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Shows how to create an FAQ section for a web site with questions that have expandable and collapsible answers, using Dreamweaver and jQuery.
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Shows how to build a visually rich, interactive marquee with jQuery to aggregate and display content on a web site home page.
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Shows how to implement and customize an interactive rotating carousel animation with jQuery.
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Shows how to implement and customize an interactive rotating carousel animation with jQuery and Dreamweaver.
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Shows how to create a custom interactive bar chart or other visual graphic with jQuery.
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Shows how to create a custom interactive bar chart or other visual graphic with jQuery and Dreamweaver.
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Shows how to create animated rollover effects within an HTML document, working in Dreamweaver.
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Shows how to create animated rollover effects within an HTML document, working in a coding environment.
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Design and create a rich interactive map for a web site, working in a coding environment and using the open-source scripting library jQuery.
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Design and create a rich interactive map for a web site using the open-source scripting library jQuery and the tools in Dreamweaver.
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Shows how to develop an interactive video gallery for the web in a coding environment, using HTML5 with a Flash fallback, CSS, and the open-source JavaScript library jQuery.
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Shows how to develop an interactive video gallery for the web in Dreamweaver using HTML5 with a Flash fallback, CSS, and the open-source JavaScript library jQuery.
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Enhances an interactive homepage marquee with an auto-play feature that automatically advances through the slide images.
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Enhances an interactive homepage marquee with an auto-play feature that automatically advances through the slide images.
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Shows how to build a visually rich, interactive marquee in order to aggregate and display content on a web site homepage.
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Shows how to develop an interactive photo gallery for a web site using HTML, CSS, and jQuery.
