- Effortless Flex 4 Development: Fundamental Concepts of Event Management
- Apr 19, 2010
- In order for applications to be truly a user experience (which is to say, interactive), you need to know how to manage events. Larry Ullman shows you how event management works in Flex 4.
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- Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 Classroom in a Book: Creating Style Sheets for Other Media Types
- Apr 14, 2010
- By creating and attaching style sheets optimized for other media, the specific browsing application can select the appropriate style sheet and formatting for its own needs. In this exercise, you’ll convert a CSS screen-media file to one optimized for print.
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- Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide - Working with Local and Remote Sites
- Apr 14, 2010
- Adobe® Dreamweaver® CS5 has all the tools you’ll need to create your web site, work with its files and folders, and then transfer it to the Web server. Tom Negrino and Dori Smith explain local and remote sites and how to create the local site.
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- Adobe® Fireworks® CS5 Classroom in a Book: Using the Compound Shape Tool
- Apr 14, 2010
- The Compound Shape tool lets you temporarily group multiple vector shapes together as you draw them, making it easy to move the objects at the same time, yet also allowing for quick and easy editing of any shape within the compound group. This excerpt from Adobe® Fireworks® CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use the Compound Shape tool.
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- Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 Classroom in a Book: Preparing a Design Document
- Apr 14, 2010
- The way you approach the design and organization of your artwork has a significant impact on the structure of the project in Flash Catalyst and the underlying code. This excerpt from Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ CS5 Classroom in a Book will help protect the integrity of your design and minimize re-working or re-structuring assets after bringing them into Flash Catalyst.
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- Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 Classroom in a Book: Creating Symbols
- Apr 14, 2010
- In this lesson, you will select the different parts of the imported Illustrator graphic, and then convert the various pieces to symbols.
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- Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 Classroom in a Book: Editing the Perspective Grid
- Apr 14, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to edit the Perspective Grid.
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- Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Applying Styles Effectively
- Mar 10, 2010
- In this chapter, learn the best practices for applying CSS with progressive enhancement, including a review of how to divide styles into basic and enhanced style sheets, and techniques to improve the accessibility, usability, and performance of styles.
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- Real-World Solutions with Adobe Technology: Health Care e-Form
- Feb 24, 2010
- In this chapter, you will meet a doctor and the IT staff of a regional hospital and learn how they replaced piles of paperwork with their new paperless systems.
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- Q&A with Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice: An Interview by Jason Cranford Teague
- Feb 17, 2010
- Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but how can you truly know what they are beholding? In their new book, Eyetracking Web Usability, Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice explore usability through examining the gaze of the viewer. Jason Cranford Teague had a chance to talk to them about Web usability studies, navigation, misdirecting your audience, and the frustration of ad overload.
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- Connecting the View to the Model in Django
- Jan 27, 2010
- Steve Holzner shows you how to put three models -- Favorites, User, and Hyperlink -- to work in Django.
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- Up Late with CSS3, and Loving It!
- Jan 22, 2010
- Andy Clarke believes in experiments, Dan Cederholm is excited about layering, and John Allsopp reveals an nth-child secret. Learn the favorite CSS tricks of these three web design experts.
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- Going Paperless with Acrobat
- Jan 19, 2010
- This chapter provides an excellent real-world example of how using just the Adobe Acrobat product successfully enhances an organization's workflow, saving time and costs.
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- What Do You Test, and When Do You Test It?: Why the Hardest Part Is Starting Early Enough
- Jan 14, 2010
- If there’s one thing that usability professionals agree on, it’s that you want to start testing as early as possible. Steve Krug shows you how to do it.
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- Fluid Web Typography: Scale & Rhythm
- Dec 23, 2009
- Jason Cranford Teague shows how giving careful consideration to the measurements and scale you are designing for is what separates good Web typography from great Web typography.
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- Eyetracking Web Usability: Images
- Dec 11, 2009
- In this chapter, Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice examine what specific attributes attract people or repel them from images on the Web.
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- Interaction Design Frameworks that Work: Search
- Dec 7, 2009
- How can we apply lessons from Google to on-site search to generate effective results and commonsense interactions? Robert Hoekman and Jared Spool discuss the web anatomy of search.
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- Planning for and Managing Browser Support
- Dec 7, 2009
- With a flurry of new browsers hitting users’ computers and mobile devices this year, everyone involved with the Web has had to scramble to ensure that their sites are compatible with the latest and greatest. This has left many Web professionals and business teams wondering, “What browsers should my site support?” Kimberly Blessing helps you answer that question.
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- Introducing ColdFusion 9
- Nov 20, 2009
- ColdFusion 9 boasts an impressive array of new and enhanced features, all intended to improve productivity for developers, IT administrators, and business decision makers alike. In this article, Ben Forta introduces you to some of what’s new and exciting in ColdFusion 9.
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- Microformats Made Simple: XFN
- Nov 17, 2009
- Emily P. Lewis focuses on using the rel attribute for links in order to define social relationships, starting with an explanation of XFN.
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