Multimedia Authoring Tools

Abstract

This tutorial provides an introduction to multimedia authoring tools. We contrast these tools with presentation packages and with programming languages. We also describe some of the most important features to look for when selecting a multimedia authoring tool for a project- whether PC-based or Web-based, and we give an overview of the most popular multimedia authoring tools currently on the market. Multimedia authoring concepts and procedures are demonstrated by highlighting two of the more popular authoring tools, Director and Authorware, as well as World Wide Web publishing tools.