DVD How-To: Developing Menu Structure

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Producing is personal and professional DVDs is getting easier, thanks to applications like Apple’s DVD Studio Pro 3 (Mac) and Adobe Encore DVD 1.5 (Windows).
But making the transition from designing for print to designing for interactive media still stymies some creative professionals. But if Robin Williams can do it, so can you.
Robin (not the comedian) is a legend among desktop publishers for her writings on PageMaker, print design, fronts, and personal computing (remember "The Mac is not a typewriter" and "The Non-Designer’s Type Book"? Classics, all…).
Now Robin, along with co-authors John Tollet and David Rohr, tackles interactive publishing with the same clarity and humor she displayed in her earlier work.
If you’ve been struggling to delve into the brave new world of DVD design, then you’ll want to read this excerpt from "Robin Williams Web Design Workshop" about how to structure interactive menus.

We’ve posted this excerpt as a PDF file. All you do is click this link "DVD Menu Structure: Integrating Content and Navigation" to open the PDF file in your Web browser. You can also download the PDF to your machine for later viewing.
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Excerpted from "Robin Williams DVD Design Workshop" © 2004 Robin Williams, John Tollett, and David Rohr. Reproduced by permission of Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Peachpit Press. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.