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Modify Simple Graphics in Flash MX 2004: Oct 20, 2006; Flash back to Macromedia Flash MX 2004 for a retro tutorial on how to modify simple graphics in Flash! If you're still using Macromedia Flash MX 2004, you'll want to sneak a peek at this sample chapter, which shows you how to use the selection, lasso, and subselection tools to select and modify graphics. You'll also learn about using the Property Inspector and other panels to modify elements' attributes.

Blogging from Afar with Blogger: Oct 13, 2006; Elizabeth Castro shows you how to add posts to your Blogger.com blog from your email program, from your browser's toolbar, or from your telephone.

How to Create Page Layouts in GoLive CS2: Oct 13, 2006; In this self-paced, step-by-step lesson, excerpted from our best-selling Classroom in a Book series, you'll learn how to create HTML page layouts using a variety of GoLive methods, including the GoLive CS2 layout grid, HTML tables, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) layers, and liquid layouts.

Flash Video 101: Controlling Flash Video with the FLV Playback Component: Oct 6, 2006; You have several options for controlling the playback of video in a Flash file. In this article, author James Gonzalez reviews the best of these options: the Flash FLVPlayback component. Read on to learn more about this new and powerful Flash component and how to take advantage of its rich feature set to quickly and easily control all aspects of Flash video playback.

Ten Quick Ways to Improve Your Business Blog: Oct 6, 2006; Business blogs can be brilliant, bubbly, brash—but many are just boring. You need to separate your blog from the masses of text out there, get readers to notice, and keep them coming back for more. How? Follow Meryl Evans' 10 quick tips.

Before and After Graphics for Business: Creating a Successful Logo: Sep 29, 2006; 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. It is a tricky balancing act, but one that you can achieve. All you have to do is consider what makes a logo effective. Make sure your design follows these guidelines.

Flash Video 101: Authoring Flash Video with Dreamweaver: Sep 29, 2006; Importing video directly into Dreamweaver is ideal for situations in which you want to put video onto your site quickly and easily, with no interactive elements beyond simple video controls (play, stop, pause, skip ahead, and skip backward). James Gonzalez shows you how to quickly and easily add Flash video to a Web site using Dreamweaver, the world's leading HTML editor.

Flash Video 101: Flash Video Delivery Options: Sep 22, 2006; When it comes to delivering Flash video, there's no shortage of options. Macromedia Flash Basic 8 and Macromedia Flash Professional 8 provide several ways for you to include video in your Flash documents. How you choose to deploy your video will determine how you create your video content and how you integrate it for use with Flash. In this article, James Gonzalez gives you a thorough rundown of all the options available for delivering Flash video to your audience.

Flash Video 101: Best Practices for Capturing and Encoding Flash Video for Web Delivery: Sep 15, 2006; Before you start a Flash video Web project, you must balance a variety of factors to ensure that you start with the highest quality, smallest video files as possible. Join James Gonzalez for a review of the best practices for achieving the best possible video image quality and viewing experience.

How to Style An Events Calendar in CSS: Sep 15, 2006; Events calendars on the Web are surprisingly useful. A personal site might use one to indicate when a Web log was updated or to show important dates in history. Even more interesting, an organization or community could use a calendar to publicize upcoming and recurring events. In this project, renowned CSS designer Eric Meyer looks at the basic structure of Web-based calendars, explores ways to set the borders between days, and discusses how the days should be classed and identified to give you the most flexibility for later styling.

Flash Video 101: An Overview of Working with Flash: Sep 8, 2006; Why Flash video? With all its new capabilities, Flash has developed into an excellent platform for delivering video and many other types of media. In this article, which will be followed up with a series of articles providing more details, James Gonzalez provides a summary and overview of how to author and publish Flash video projects.

How to Export a Site Design From Fireworks to Dreamweaver: Sep 8, 2006; After you create and finalize your site's design in Fireworks, you can turn your attention to moving the design from Fireworks to Dreamweaver. Moving the design is a two-step process that involves image optimization and file export. In this lesson, you'll learn techniques for optimizing graphics. In addition, you'll work with various export settings to prepare the Fireworks document for export. In the process, you'll become familiar with Fireworks' Optimize panel and the Export HTML setup process, mastering the techniques used to find the best optimization and export settings for your original design.

Can Microsoft Expression Web Designer Touch Dreamweaver?: Sep 1, 2006; Look out, Dreamweaver. Consider Microsoft Expression Web Designer as Dreamweaver's new rival. Meryl Evans tells you why you shouldn't look at this competition in the iPod vs. everybody way, but instead in the Dell vs. HP way.

Tips for Drawing with Brushes in Illustrator CS2: Aug 25, 2006; The heart of Illustrator is the ability to define vector paths, usually using the Pen or Pencil tool. The paths can have an infinite variety of fills, stroke properties, and other effects. Among these effects is an amazing variety of brushlike stroke attributes. In this chapter, you'll learn how to draw with brushes; create calligraphic, art, and scatter brushes, and more.

Create Text-Based Links in Dreamweaver 8: Aug 11, 2006; In this lesson, you’ll develop the initial framework of the site structure by developing placeholders for the pages in the Yoga Sangha project site. You’ll link these pages together using Dreamweaver’s visual site-mapping tools to create a working test site. Creating this kind of framework through pages and links in a bare but functional version of the site can help you test the navigation that you have developed. Testing the proposed site structure before creating the design will help you catch fundamental problems at the beginning of development, enabling you to address them more efficiently.

Making iWeb Your Own: Creating Your Own Themes and Templates for Apple's Web Design Tool: Aug 11, 2006; Do you like iWeb's ease of use but feel stifled by having to rely on Apple's cookie-cutter selection of themes and templates? Here's some great news: You can create your templates and themes for iWeb. Ryan Faas walks you through changing and adding to the reference files and ultimately creating your own personalized iWeb themes.

Build a Dynamic App Step-by-Step in Dreamweaver 8: Aug 4, 2006; By the end of this lesson, you’ll have an idea of how dynamic sites work, and what they are created to do; you’ll have Macromedia Dreamweaver configured to work with dynamic data; and you’ll have created your first page that uses dynamic content.