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Eric Meyer on CSS: Style at Dawn: May 21, 2004; It's easy to take two documents and add the CSS styles necessary to create translucent effects using ordinary JPEG images. These images make it fairly easy to create an attractive design.

Essential JavaScript: Nov 8, 2002; Steven Holzner provides the necessary skills and techniques for his guided tour of JavaScript. He begins with a history of the language.

Events in JavaScript: Sep 7, 2009; Charles Wyke-Smith shows you how to monitor and respond to events in JavaScript.

Evolving Your Web Site: Jul 25, 2003; Once you launch your site, you may feel a sense of accomplishment (and you should). But don't confuse a launch party with a finish line. Your work has only just begun.

Exciting Updates to Flash Professional CC: Dec 4, 2013; Experienced instructor and Flash Platform expert Joseph Labrecque presents an introduction to much of what is new in Flash Professional CC; namely, the introduction of native HTML5 Canvas.

Expert Flash Tips and Tricks: Feb 16, 2001; Quick and dirty Flash! tips from Derek Franklin and Brooks Patton, coauthors of Flash 5! Creative Web Animation.

Expert Optimization: Five Tips for Optimizing JPEGs in Photoshop CS2: Sep 30, 2005; These days, no Web visitor has the time or patience to wait for slow-loading graphics. In the time it takes to load a large, beautiful photograph, a user can be long gone! But you don't have to abandon photographs altogether; Tanya Staples covers quick techniques for dramatically reducing the file size of those JPEG images while maintaining the finest of details.

Exploring ASP.NET Pages: Dec 6, 2002; Explore ASP.NET pages and dig into some of their core functions, such as page events and properties, and directives.

Export to Streaming Flash Video in Dreamweaver CS3: Nov 5, 2008; Learn how to use two different sets of encoding profiles to generate two different FLV files.

Extending AJAX with the Flash/JavaScript Integration Kit: Oct 6, 2005; Want more control over the user experience? Because Flash makes graphical programming quick, easy, and attractive, and because JavaScript is very effective at manipulating HTML, they can be leveraged to focus on their strengths. Kris Hadlock shows you how to extend AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) by cross-communicating between Flash and JavaScript. Discover how this technique enables technologies to focus on specialized tasks, and helps create the ultimate user experience.

External Communications with Flash 8: How to Use the ExternalInterface: Mar 24, 2006; Kris Hadlock explores the use of the ExternalInterface class in Flash 8. With ExternalInterface, you can build robust object-oriented Flash applications that can be connected to the outside world and tied to databases and other server-side processes.

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.

Filling Out Paper Forms with the Acrobat Typewriter Tool: Mar 7, 2011; These days, a simple PDF form just won’t do. No one wants to print out a PDF document and be forced to handwrite or—even worse—find a typewriter to fill in all the fields. Author John Deubert walks you through how to use the Acrobat X Typewriter tool that, in its modest way, one of the handiest gizmos in the Acrobat X toolbox.

Final Cut Pro Power Tip: Keeping Files Under Control with Render Manager: Apr 7, 2006; Render files eat disk space surprisingly quickly. But with your Final Cut Pro files and folders set up according to Larry Jordan's advice, you can use the Render Manager to recover that lost space in a trice. (Maybe even half a trice!)

Find Money with Google's AdSense for Search Program: Oct 6, 2005; Veteran author and Web developer Eric Giguere tells you all about Google's AdSense search and how you can use it to make your Web site more profitable.

Find Your Identity: How to Design a Logo That Suits Your Business: Jan 5, 2007; A successful logo can't be just creative or clever. Because a logo ends up being an important guest at many occasions, it absolutely must perform and behave well no matter what. In this sample chapter, you'll learn what makes a good logo and how to design one that's right your business.

Finding Scriptable Objects with AppleScript: Jan 28, 2009; Finding scriptable objects is a common task and something that AppleScript and scriptable applications do exceptionally well. In this chapter, the authors cover the techniques used to locate specific scriptable objects.

Fireworks Basics: May 16, 2003; Sandee Cohen outlines the basic functions and foundation of Fireworks MX.

Fireworks MX Fills: Feb 14, 2003; Fireworks objects can be filled with colors, textures, patterns, gradients, and even other Fireworks objects. In this sample chapter, Sandee Cohen shows how to create fills in Fireworks MX.

Fireworks MX Fundamentals: Feb 21, 2003; Abigail Rudner discusses color, texture, fills, modes, and strokes in Fireworks.