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Blog On and Blog Louder with iWeb: Jan 5, 2007; Robin Williams and John Tollett show just how easy it is to create, edit, and update your blog with iWeb.

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.

HTML Forms and PHP: Jan 5, 2007; This chapter covers the basics of creating HTML forms and how the form data is transmitted to your PHP script. It introduces several key concepts of real PHP programming, including how to debug and manage errors in your scripts.

Publish a Video Podcast with WordPress: Jan 5, 2007; Maria Langer's helicopter jaunts are too spectacular to be described with mere words; adding video podcasts to her web site would give visitors a taste of the thrill they'd be buying when they signed up for a trip. In this article, Maria takes us on a tour of the software that made it all possible.

JavaScript Language Essentials: Dec 29, 2006; Tom Negrino and Dori Smith go into detail about the basic elements of JavaScript and introduce you to other aspects of the JavaScript language, such as loops, arrays, and more about functions.

Basic (X)HTML Structure: Dec 29, 2006; This chapter covers the most basic (X)HTML elements—the ones you need to create the structure of your document. You'll learn how to create new paragraphs, headers, page breaks, comments, and more.

Save And Print PDFs in Adobe Acrobat 7: Dec 22, 2006; Acrobat's ability to let you read a PDF file on almost any computer system is impressive, but you can do even more. In this chapter, you'll learn how to save PDFs in many formats, reduce file size, make sure a document is ready to print, and finally to print it.

Secrets of Videoblogging: Checking Your Toolbox: Dec 22, 2006; Before you start making your own videoblog, make sure you have all the essential tools for creating your own videos and uploading them to the Web. This sample chapter details a toolbox recommended by a team of experienced videobloggers.

Interactive Designer Brendan Dawes on How The Craving for Experiences Drives Design: Dec 15, 2006; People crave experiences. It’s the experience of an object, the little special details, which make us want to interact with it in some way, physically or emotionally. Author Brendan Dawes explains how this craving for experiences is particularly evident when making purchasing decisions, something that logic would suggest should always be guided by price.

MySpace for Parents: Dec 15, 2006; If you are a parent of teenagers in this digital age, you must understand how sites like MySpace are influencing your kids choices. This sample chapter provides an overview of how to setup, configure, and cancel a MySpace account.

Flash ActionScripting for Designers: Taking the Mystery Out of ActionScript: Dec 15, 2006; To really get the most out of Flash, you need to learn and use ActionScript. Read this concise ActionScript primer by author James Gonzalez to start taking the mystery out of this versatile and powerful web technology.

Beginning Designer's Guide to Working with Photographs: Nov 22, 2006; Photographs almost always add interest to a design and emphasis to a message. Extra-large or extra-small photos, dramatic cropping, interesting filters, or special digital effects can transform a ho-hum layout into a creative visual solution. In this sample chapter, best-selling authors Robin Williams and John Tollett present some basic guidelines for planning your photographs and incorporating them into your design.

Jeffrey Zeldman On Why To Incorporate Web Standards: Nov 22, 2006; Web standards hold the key to accessible, cost-effective web design and development, but you wouldn't know it from surveying most big commercial sites. In this chapter, CSS guru Jeffrey Zeldman explores some of the reasons web standards have not yet been incorporated into the normative practice of all design shops and in-house web divisions, and are not yet obligatory components of every site plan or request for proposal. If you need help selling standards to your colleagues, this chapter is for you.

Tool Time: Creating in Illustrator CS2: Nov 22, 2006; You can never have enough tools. Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski share their most killer tips on how to use Illustrator's tools to, in their words, "create stuff."