I am in Madision, Wisconsin and have finished a very interesting morning session on using Flash for creating interactive content and video. The speaker did an exceptional job keeping all participants ‘on click’ and his handouts were very well done. I have copies to share with the team.
He emphasized some of the new features in Flash CS3 including drag and drop templates, though we didn’t have time to actually try that. He also gave us some good tutorials (also on the disk we were given). Let me know if you want a copy.
Google Analytics– talk about Big Brother– you can put Google script on buttons, pages, slides etc. to gather data on whether people are actually clicking or downloading throughout your pages. The java script must be placed at the root level (important if you are moving captivate into flash). You must have an account with Google.
In Captivate-
- pageTracker._trackPageview(“anyname”) This goes on your button in captivate where it is says “On success” execute javascript. Click … Type in pageTracker above.
- Also notice that the down arrow says “current” must be changed to “top”
- It will progress project to next page; this is a limitation because you can’t give it another command (like jump to slide 10)
- Can put on slide- properties, navigation: execute javascript is another way of doing this so you don’t have to use button capabilities
- Then must add the code to HTML file
On the html page:
Before </body> you’ll paste the google code.
Gets a little complicated if you don’t own the domain you are tracking though.
Posted by Kathi 
