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Oxford Brookes UniversityMA,Interactive Media Publishing

by:Ruqaya Shamtoot

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Why the Story of Joseph?

• Joseph's story is quite appealing to me. I always liked reading the story Joseph (Yusuf) in the Qur'an.

• The story itself is loaded with lessons about human nature, morality and wisdom. It also makes the reader curious to know more about old incidents and believes.

• It is a way to create a kind of rapprochement between the different religions.

• Text Source:Qur'an (English and Arabic versions),Other Islamic books that tell the story of the Prophet Joseph.

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Used techniques:

• E-book Cover: I have designed a layered background by using PhotoShop. Also, I created an "ENTER" button for the reader to click on and start navigating through the story from the cover page.

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Used techniques:

• Background:I have created the e-book's background by using Photoshop.

• I made sure that the background would accommodate navigation signs (buttons).

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Used techniques:

• Divider Background: Created in PhotoShop. Each divider consists of the same basic background

• signifying picture was added in the middle, according to the meanings of each part of the story.

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Used techniques:

• Text Styles: used InDesign CS for creating different text styles in the

e-book:

Headings, Headers, Qur'an verses (English), Main text body, Title.

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Navigation Buttons:

• Menu Button: I have used the head that is in the background as a menu for all the story pages.

• The menu has the following topics: Cover/ page/Page of Contents/All major parts in the story/Find/Colophon page./Previous view/Quit.

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Navigation Buttons

• Next and Previous Page Buttons:

Right and left sandals (Old style sandals).

• Zoom and Bookmark options:

Fancy icon made of a thread bookmark and a pair of fancy glasses.

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Navigation Buttons

• Text Buttons: The English Qur'anic verses are buttons that enable the reader of viewing the original Qur'anic verses.

• Hide & Show action was used to show and hide fields.

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Used Software:

• PhotoShop: Creating all pictures, icons, collages, and the design of the Arabic verses.

• InDesign CS: for placing the text, text style, content page.

• Adobe Acrobat 6.0 ME professional: All buttons, actions and page links. navigation interactivity.

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Multimedia

• Sound: the sound of book page turning.

• Video movie: produced in Arabic, with English subtitles. Embedded in the end of the book.