Books!

I was thrilled to find my new Adobe Captivate books waiting for me when we got back home this week. I am especially pleased with Essentials of Adobe Captivate 3, which is, in a sense, a student workbook. While we were travelling, I was trying to struggle through creating slides for the first tutorial but was not at all happy with the results. I have since scrapped that initial project and am working through the first, basic lessons in this book first. This is allowing me to get a much better feel for how Captivate works, all it's possibilities, and how to best lay out a project *before* one starts to attempt to record it.

The downside to this is that I had expected to have a completed project done by this time, ready for testing. Although I had completed the project, it was not satisfactory and I was in no way satisfied with it. Since the program itself isn't difficult to operate, I have high hopes that once I have this additional "learning curve" out of the way (I hadn't thought to see if there was anyway to set preferences and I had obviously recorded things at the wrong screen resolution and recording area, which then caused problems in trying to view things.) Obviously, it's best to begin at the beginning and actually get some education on the program before jumping in in order to get the best results, which is what I want.

It's the frustration I was feeling in trying to get things to turn out the way I wanted (and they weren't) that has led to the lack of updates on this blog recently. Things are moving forward nicely again now, albeit in not quite the way I'd anticipated at this juncture, so I'm looking forward to lots more positive updates!