Your presentation plays back OK on your PC, but now that you have burnt it on to CD the video/audio clips no longer play. 

When you import video or audio clips into PowerPoint it just creates links from your presentation to the video/audio files. It is really important that when you burn your presentation to CD-ROM that you also burn the video/audio files on to the CD as well and that their relative postion to your PowerPoint file remains unchanged, otherwise the PowerPoint file will look for the video/audio files in the wrong place.

The easiest way to achieve this is prior to creating your presentation collect together in one folder all the video and audio files you are going to use. Then create your PowerPoint presentation in the same folder. 

When you come to burn the presentation to CD-ROM, burn the folder’s complete contents on to the CD, in that way your PowerPoint presentation will retain its relative position to your media clips and hence will know where to find them.

Some people think it is easier to be creative when you have a blank canvas but personally I find it helps channel my energies to have a client who can give me parameters for their website, clues as to what they are looking for.

Artists seem to be good at laying down the bare bones of what they would like their site to look like and how they want to structure it. Perhaps artists share a method of working things out before they start creative projects that is able to translate across different media, who knows?

When I met Fiona she knew lots of the parameters for her website, had done lots of research into other site along similar lines and had some fantastic close-up photos of her hand-made wedding invitation cards to use on the site. It was obvious that Fiona loves texture and colour so this seemed to point the way to the design for her site.

The information on the site was fairly limited and the photos would take up most of the space on the screen so I made up a page consisting of oblongs surrounded by white keylines to create a kind of gallery across the screen to fit in as many images as possible. The resulting site is probably the most textured that I have ever made and immediately visually reflects the product Fiona makes.

On this site every page features a different colour and texture from one of Fiona’s cards and this helps Fiona to get across her message that every card is unique and can be personalised to match the colour, style and even the fabric of the bridal dress.

To see the site for yourself please click here.