- 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.
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- 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.
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- Macromedia Studio 8: Making All the Apps Play Nice
- Oct 6, 2005
- Matthew David discusses how the latest version of Macromedia Studio hones the individual Studio apps to help your Web team create a tightly integrated Web site, with a minimum of duplicated effort.
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- Creating Dynamic Web Sites with PHP and MySQL
- Sep 30, 2005
- This chapter will cover a hodgepodge of ideas, all used to create dynamic Web applications including incorporating external files, handling forms and form data in new ways, writing and using your own functions, using PHP's date() function, and sending email.
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- 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.
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- Make Easy Money with Google Starting with Content
- Sep 30, 2005
- Determine what your Web site's going to be about before you start building it to ensure you create compelling, AdSense-friendly content. Author Eric Giguere offers up tips on finding the topic for your site that's most likely to do well and make money in Google's popular AdSense program.
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- Using AdSense for Content to Rent Ad Space to Google
- Sep 30, 2005
- Ever the advertising pioneer, Google offers website owners the chance to rent ad space to Google with its simple but sophisticated program called AdSense for content. Eric Giguere provides the details in this article.
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- What's New in Dreamweaver 8?
- Sep 30, 2005
- After years of using Dreamweaver, Matthew David is excited by the latest version's new features for designers and developers. He covers his new favorites in this article.
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- A Java Programmer's Introduction to Objective-C: Memory Management
- Sep 23, 2005
- Developers continue to debate the question of memory management solutions. Which is best? Although Objective-C's retain/release runs smoother and faster than Java's garbage collection, it places a much larger burden on the developer and introduces a much larger risk of memory leaks. In the first of a series of articles that detail the important differences between Java and Objective-C, Marcus Zarra compares and contrasts memory management in Java and Cocoa/Objective-C.
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- Need to Find Something Online? Here's the Key to Effective Searches
- Sep 23, 2005
- Choosing the right keywords is the essence of effective searching. But coming up with good, unique keywords is actually just half the battle. You also need to know how to enter and combine keywords, taking advantage of the basic search tools offered by the major search engines. Some search engines have a different set of instructions depending on whether you're using their simple or advanced versions. But certain general concepts apply across the board and these concepts are all covered here.
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- Set Up a Basic Web Page in Dreamweaver MX 2004
- Sep 23, 2005
- Never built a Web page before? No problem. Author J. Tarin Towers walks you through creating a simple Web page in Dreamweaver MX 2004 that uses tables, links, images, and text. She also shows you how to adjust properties of a page, including the title and page background, as well as how to select and use colors in Dreamweaver.
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- World Usability Day: "Making it Easy" for Technology Users
- Sep 23, 2005
- Technology should work. And it shouldn't make you feel stupid. That's the goal of this year's first annual World Usability Day on November 3, 2005, with more than 50 events planned in 26 countries around the globe. Participants will include everyone from schoolchildren to government leaders. Garth Buchholz tells you what to expect.
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- Add Style and Text to Your Flash Web Site
- Sep 16, 2005
- Making your first Flash Web site? Author David Morris shows you just what you need to know to add and style text using full-color illustrations so you can follow along with the step-by-step instructions easily. Read on to learn how to add a single line of text, create fixed-width text, change a text box, add an e-mail link, and add graphic text. Perfect for beginners!
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- JavaScript Language Essentials
- Sep 9, 2005
- Learn about the basic elements of JavaScript in this chapter, as well as other aspects of the JavaScript language, such as loops and functions. You'll see how you can check for the presence of browser plug-ins, use JavaScript to write your Web pages for you, learn how JavaScript handles errors that the user makes, and put multiple scripts on a page.
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- Starting Your Own Blog: How to Choose the Right Blogging Tool for You
- Sep 9, 2005
- Blogs, blogs, blogs. Seems like they're everywhere these days. But with so many blogging tools out there it can be tough to pick the one you need to get started. Molly Holzschlag helps you out by helping you pick just the right blogging tool for you.
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- Getting Familiar with Adobe Reader
- Sep 2, 2005
- Adobe Reader offers an overwhelming array of options. Luckily, Ted Padova offers his services as a guide through the thicket of choices in this sample chapter.
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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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- They're Behaving Like Monsters! An Introduction to Stimulus-Based Behavior in Computer Role-Playing Games
- Jul 29, 2005
- Your computer role-playing game (RPG) won't be much fun for the players if monsters just hang about waiting to be slaughtered. Chris Williams explains a simple system that you can implement in your RPGs to make creatures behave in a more natural fashion, adding interest for the player (and the programmer, for that matter).
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- Programming for the Mac: Introducing AppleScript
- Jul 22, 2005
- Do you want to make the most of your Mac applications? Like all operating systems, the Mac has many different levels of programming, and more than 80 percent of all applications built for OS X leverage AppleScript as an automation tool. In this introductory article, Matthew David tells you how you can best leverage AppleScript for your Mac applications.
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- Some Google in Your Apps: An Introduction to the Google Web API Using .NET and Java
- May 27, 2005
- The Google Web API gives developers the ability to open a pipe between their apps and Google's amazingly comprehensive index of the Web. Although the API doesn't give you access to everything that Google offers via a browser, and it's still in beta, its features give you the power to write some cool and maybe even useful applications. Tim Stevens shows you what's involved.
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