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Review: Art & Copy

 June 28, 2010 by

Last week, the local screening of ART & COPY played at the Birch North Park Theatre. Before the curtains opened the crowd gathered for a pre-show mixer at The Office bar, which was brimming with the local flavor of designers, architects, advertising professionals, students and your random tag-a-longs. Most people sipped drinks and talked shop before moving over to the theatre.

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Paul Drohan Creative Director

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HTML5 Video & Skinning Tutorial Part 5: Sound

 June 28, 2010 by Nicholas Davison

Last Thursday, we covered interactive progress bars.

Today we will be covering sound – muting, un-muting and adjusting the volume of our videos.

Throughout these tutorials, we will be continuing the concepts/implementation division: Explaining the ideas first, letting those who wish to run ahead do so – then going over a step by step implantation with jQuery.

 

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Nicholas Davison Director of Web Development

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Gretchen helps Alicia Keys find a Superwoman

 June 25, 2010 by Reena Leone

Last month, Gretchen Cordova, Digitaria's own Account Strategist, was hand-selected by Alicia Keys to select a head blogger for her website, I Am A Superwoman (IAAS.com), from thousands of applications. The selection committee consisted of representatives from each company that contributed to the overall project. We sat down with Gretchen and asked her about her experience on the panel, the search for the perfect blogger, and what it was like to work with Alicia Keys.

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HTML5 Video & Skinning Tutorial Part 4: Interactive Progress Bars

 June 24, 2010 by Nicholas Davison

Yesterday we covered rewind and fast forward buttons along with the limitations in current implementations.

Today we will be covering progress bars – updating them as the video plays and letting users jump to any position along them.

Throughout these tutorials, we will be continuing the concepts/implementation division: Explaining the ideas first, letting those who wish to run ahead do so – then going over a step by step implantation with jQuery.

 

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Nicholas Davison Director of Web Development

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HTML5 Video & Skinning Tutorial Part 3: Rewind/Fast Forward

 June 23, 2010 by Nicholas Davison

Yesterday we covered setting up a play/pause button that controls an HTML5 element.

Today we will be expanding that code, adding rewind and fast forward buttons. We will also be looking at the limitations current player implementations provide and how they affect us.

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Interactive Day 2010 Wrap Up

 June 22, 2010 by

Interactive Day featured first-rate speakers from all corners of the Digital Marketing industry including Facebook, Google Analytics, Exact Target, Yahoo and LinkedIn.

Of particular note, Digitaria's Warren Raisch delivered one of the day's most heavily attended sessions on Marketing Convergence, and how we can synchronize our marketing efforts as unprecedented innovation changes our industry.

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HTML5 Video & Skinning Tutorial Part 2: Play Buttons

 June 22, 2010 by Nicholas Davison

Yesterday we covered the core HTML5 <video> element and its basic implementation.

Today we will be looking at everything involved with creating a separate, skinned play button: controlling the video and tracking its current state in order to update the video correctly.

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HTML5 Video & Skinning Tutorial Part 1

 June 21, 2010 by Nicholas Davison

Welcome to the first part of a week long series looking at the HTML5 Video tag and how to skin it.

A lot of people are talking about how great HTML5 Video is, how it will be a game changer, and how it [debatably] does away with the need for Flash. Fewer are covering how to actually use it, and those that do tend to stop at showing you how to put the basic tag on to a page. That might be enough for casual bloggers and basic sites, but for it to stand any chance of replacing Flash on professional sites it needs to be able to replace Flash’s ability to skin the players as well. This week of articles will teach you how to do all of that.

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Catching up with Creative Director Paul Drohan

 June 21, 2010 by Reena Leone

Paul Drohan is always creating. Known outside of Digitaria as d5ive, he is a prominent figure in San Diego's art community, and for numerous years has been a judge for FITC Toronto, AIGA design competitions, San Diego ADDY Awards, and The Webbys - the leading international awards honoring excellence on the internet.

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La Jolla Playhouse Wins Big at the Tonys

 June 14, 2010 by Reena Leone

Digitaria client, La Jolla Playhouse, had a lot to be excited about this weekend - they won 4 Tony Awards! Memphis took top honors for Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Orchestrations. Memphis is a musical set in the 1950s that tells the story of the first white DJ to play black music on the radio. The show features gospel, rhythm & blues and early rock & roll music.

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