- Designing for Flash MX 2004
- Dec 12, 2003
- Matthew David shows you how Flash MX 2004 offers stronger and more flexible tools to create the most interesting and creative Web sites.
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- Designing for Interaction: Design Research
- Aug 19, 2009
- If only a small bit of the typical time, money, and resources used to make and market a product or service were put towards design research—observing, talking to, and maybe even making artifacts with customers and users—the products and services we use would be greatly improved. Dan Saffer explains.
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- Designing Responsive Web Pages Using a Fluid Grid Layout in Adobe Dreamweaver CS6
- May 3, 2012
- In the following excerpt from Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium Classroom in a Book, you’ll work on two pages of a prototype website in Adobe Dreamweaver. You’ll learn how to quickly set up a web page layout that adapts to different screen sizes, and preview the design in a web browser.
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- Designing the Obvious, Part 1: The Key to Great Web and Software Design
- Feb 24, 2006
- Unless you have endless free time to waste, at some point you'll get fed up with a site or application that seems intent on frustrating the user. Robert Hoekman, Jr. posits that it's not the designer's intention to aggravate your life; it's just a failure to define and then design "the obvious": what the user will need, presented in the way the user will need it. In this series, he explains how to design sites and software that work well for the user precisely because they're designed to be obvious.
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- Designing the Obvious, Part 2: Knowing What to Build and Why
- Mar 10, 2006
- Why do software projects fail? In most cases, says Robert Hoekman, Jr., it's simply a matter of poor planning. If you don't have a firm grasp of who is going to use your product or site, and why, you'll succeed only by accident. He explains where you need to focus attention and effort to help your product or site live up to the organization's expectations.
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- Designing the Obvious, Part 3: Understanding Real Users to Solve Real Problems
- Mar 24, 2006
- If you're writing software or building web sites without a user in mind, you're just throwing away your effort. Robert Hoekman, Jr. explains the urgent need to understand exactly who the target user is, what she hopes to accomplish, and what you can do for her - long before you start committing keystrokes to code.
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- Designing the Obvious: Build Only What Is Absolutely Necessary
- Dec 30, 2010
- Robert Hoekman explains why you must focus only on the features that are the most essential and build only what is absolutely necessary.
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- Designing the Perfect Web Site
- Feb 9, 2001
- Web designer David deBoer discusses the most important aspects of designing an efficient Web site, and explains which rules and guidelines should always be followed when designing your site.
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- Designing Type and Layout in Adobe Illustrator
- Jun 23, 2014
- This chapter from The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC focuses on tips and tricks related to working with the type tools, as well as design and layout.
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- Designing Webbed Environments: The Importance of the Define and Design Phases
- May 12, 2006
- Having a clear plan for your Web site is every bit as important as any technology you use to deliver it. But it can be easy to overlook the define and design phases of your project. Jason Cranford Teague not only shows you a tried-and-tested process for creating a blueprint for your Web site (which all members of your team can use to produce the final product as intended) but also evaluates the best software available to you for creating the deliverables.
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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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- Designing with Web Standards: Structural Healing
- Jun 6, 2003
- Jeffrey Zeldman explores the mechanics and implications of structural versus presentational markup. You'll not only rethink the way web pages work, you'll start changing the way you build them.
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- Developer’s Solution to Printing in Flash
- Sep 21, 2007
- Printing in Flash can be a little tricky. Bront Davis shows you how to get a well-formatted printout from a Flash application, regardless of the size of the on-screen textbox. ActionScript included.
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- Developing a ColdFusion/J2EE Solution
- Mar 7, 2003
- Learn how to create a project blueprint to eliminate the possibility for changes in the architecture during development, and to help development go as smoothly as possible.
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- Developing ASP.NET Applications with Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Aug 26, 2005
- Did you know that Dreamweaver allows you to build web applications that leverage J2EE, ColdFusion, and Microsoft .NET, among others? Matthew David introduces you to the exciting world of developing applications built on ASP.NET.
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- Diving into Acrobat: A Preflight Profile of Your Very Own
- Nov 16, 2011
- Adobe’s list of default preflight profiles is extensive, well thought-out, and useful. Still, if you create lots of PDF files in your life, you’ll want to make your own preflight profile that does just exactly what you want, neither more nor less. Happily, that’s an easy task, if a bit tedious. Adobe expert John Deubert shows you how.
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- Diving into Acrobat: Examine and Fix PDF Files with Acrobat Preflight
- Oct 17, 2011
- Preparing a PDF file for some commercial purpose—in particular, for professional printing—can be a serious test of your aggravation gene. Are your fonts all embedded? Are all your colors and images CMYK? Are your line widths thick enough to reproduce on a four-color press? Are you sure? Acrobat expert John Deubert explains how Acrobat X’s preflight feature can minimize the number of sarcastic messages you get from the printing company. Not only can it look for common problems in your PDF file; in many cases, it can fix those problems!
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- Diving into Acrobat: Jetspeed Searches with Indexes
- Dec 19, 2011
- If you’re work routinely entails searching PDF files for significant bits of text, you can reclaim part of your life by creating a search index. Search times drop to near zero, regardless of the size or number of the PDF files you’re inspecting. Adobe expert John Deubert shows how remarkably easy it is to do.
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- Diving into Acrobat: Making a PDF Presentation
- Nov 30, 2011
- If you ever make presentations to groups of people and are looking to escape from the “Universal PowerPoint Look,” check out Acrobat as your presentation medium. Real typography, control, wonderful graphics, and a better standard of living can be yours just by reading Adobe expert John Deubert’s article. Really!
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- Do Websites Need to Look Exactly the Same in Every Browser?
- Sep 9, 2009
- Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser? Let’s find out.
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