- Adobe Flash Catalyst: A Designer's Ticket to the Interactive World
- Jun 1, 2009
- Andrew Faulkner and his team at afstudio have been designing with Adobe products for decades. Though they're quite comfortable with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, they have had to look to professional programmers for help with creating Adobe Flash presentations for online projects. Now that he has had the chance to scope out the Adobe Flash Catalyst beta, however, Andrew is excited about the power that this new Adobe program will put into the designer's hands.
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- Using Layers for Transparency and Clipping in Illustrator CS4
- Jun 1, 2009
- Do you think of layers strictly as a selection tool? You're missing out. David Karlins points out a number of ways in which layers can be used to edit artwork in Illustrator.
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- Video with Adobe Flash CS4: Delivery and Deployment Primer
- May 20, 2009
- Learn the differences between distribution file formats and protocols for Flash-based video, along with their advantages and disadvantages.
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- Creating Transparent Video with Adobe After Effects CS4
- May 19, 2009
- Transparency plays a key role in the success of animation and interactivity. By embedding transparency into graphic elements, you can composite together different elements created at different times, allowing for true flexibility.
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- ppk on JavaScript: Context
- May 14, 2009
- JavaScript is used in the context of a Web page. This is obvious, but it has a few consequences that haven’t always been properly appreciated. Peter-Paul Koch discusses the standards-compliance CSS revolution that has changed Web development, starting with a quick summary of the CSS revolution and its impact on JavaScript.
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- Mapping Artwork onto 3D Effects in Illustrator CS4
- May 12, 2009
- If you're not using Illustrator's 3D effects, you're missing out on some exciting possibilities. David Karlins shows some of the cool projects you can create with these effects - particularly how to map (attach) artwork to a rotated 3D effect, in this case literally painting a map of the world onto a sphere.
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- How to Use Multiple Artboards in Adobe Illustrator
- May 4, 2009
- David Karlins examines how to create and modify multiple artboards and how they can (and cannot) be used.
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- Neuro Web Design Review: VillageBanking.org
- May 4, 2009
- Susan Weinschenk analyzes the website of an international charitable organization. By making a few changes in the site design, she suggests, the group could increase the amount of good they're already doing for the world.
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- Page Design in Dreamweaver CS4 with apDiv Tags
- Apr 20, 2009
- Short of coding your own CSS, the apDiv feature in Dreamweaver CS4 gives you as much flexibility and convenience in page design as you'll find in any environment. David Karlins provides a tour of this handy tag and its features for speedy web page creation.
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- Creating an Attractive, Useful Form in Dreamweaver CS4
- Apr 14, 2009
- If you need to collect input from your website's visitors, David Karlins has some ideas to share on how you can do that without having to hire a staff of programmers and database managers. In just a few steps, you can post forms for visitors to send you feedback, join your organization, or whatever.
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- When Search Meets Web Usability: Informational Searches—What Can I Learn?
- Apr 13, 2009
- If you want to get and maintain long-term search engine visibility, then satisfying informational searches is crucial. Here's what you need to know to create informational pages that provide specific content of user interest.
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- Adobe Fireworks CS4 How Tos: Staying on the (Vector) Path
- Apr 8, 2009
- By combining paths and points, a computer can draw almost any shape using vector tools like those found in Fireworks and other vector-based applications such as Adobe Illustrator. Jim Babbage explains.
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- Using an Encrypted Local Database in Adobe AIR
- Apr 7, 2009
- Secure data storage and retrieval is a cornerstone of most websites. Just as Adobe AIR applies web technologies to create desktop applications, as of AIR 1.5 you can also incorporate an encrypted local database in your desktop applications. Larry Ullman provides the details.
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- Advanced Buttons and Event Handling in Flash CS4
- Apr 1, 2009
- Events form the basis of interactivity. This chapter introduces events, event handling, and advanced buttons in Flash CS4.
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- A Project Guide to UX Design: Project Objectives and Approach
- Mar 21, 2009
- This chapter talks about forming project objectives and offers some questions that will help you as a UX designer solidify those goals. Also learn some common project approaches (or methodologies) and how they may influence the way you work.
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- Styling Web Pages with CSS: Working with Images
- Mar 18, 2009
- In this chapter from their book, Tom Negrino and Dori Smith show you how to prepare images for the Web and use CSS to position images on your Web pages.
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- Embedding Live Data in Dreamweaver CS4 with Spry Data Sets
- Mar 10, 2009
- David Karlins shows how to use a new feature in Dreamweaver CS4 to update your web content with live data - automatically.
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- Modifying Simple Graphics in Flash CS4
- Mar 3, 2009
- This chapter covers using the selection, lasso, and subselection tools to modify simple graphics in Flash CS4.
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- Using Number Variables in PHP
- Feb 25, 2009
- Learn to work with number variables in PHP, both integers (whole numbers) and floating-point numbers (aka floats or decimals).
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- Adding Tables in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
- Feb 19, 2009
- Tables provide a great way to corral information into easy-to-scan rows and columns. Nolan Hester shows you how.
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