- Style Your Website for Multiple Devices Using Dreamweaver CS5.5
- Aug 10, 2011
- To get a site to work properly across multiple devices used to be more a challenge than it is today. For instance, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 has built-in tools that help you design for multiple devices including personal computers, tablets, and phones. In this article, Adobe expert Brian Wood shows you how to use CSS3 media queries, Multiscreen Preview, and various other tools, to easily take your design and get it to work on different devices.
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- Stylin' Fonts and Text in CSS
- Nov 14, 2012
- In this chapter, you’ll learn about fonts and text, and the respective CSS properties you can use to style them. You'll also learn about the wonderful world of Web fonts, which download to your user along with your pages.
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- Stylin' Fonts and Text in CSS
- Nov 3, 2006
- Much of Web design is dealing with type—in paragraphs, headlines, lists, menus, and forms. As a result, the properties in this chapter are essential to making the difference between a site that looks thrown together and one that looks like it has the professional touch.
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- Styling a Photo Collection Using CSS
- Aug 13, 2004
- Eric Meyer walks you through a web page design project to present a collection of photographs for sale.
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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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- Surfin' Safari: Using the iPhone's Safari Web Browser
- Sep 14, 2007
- Best-selling authors Scott Kelby and Terry White share all of their best tips for using Apple's Safari Web browser with your new iPhone.
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- Taking Advantage of Layer Strategies in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Oct 12, 2010
- Whether you want to create multiple versions of a single object or you're building incredibly complex artwork, layers can be very helpful for controlling and keeping track of your Illustrator art objects and documents. Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, demonstrates strategies for making layers really useful.
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- Taming the Vector Monster
- Mar 31, 2011
- Vector basic training is all about taking your drawn design and helping you build it with precision in vector form using the methods and process covered in Vector Basic Training. This step-by-step tutorial will walk you through a real-world creative project that utilizes the systematic methodology and build methods covered in the book in order to create a monster illustration.
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- 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.
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- Ten Sound Tips for Flash Users
- Feb 22, 2002
- David Emberton takes you through the process of bringing music and sound effects into Flash in this article, from preparation all the way to compression and delivery.
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- Ten Things You Can Do with CSS (That You Might Not Have Known You Could Do)
- Dec 22, 2005
- If you're doing anything in, on, or around Web design, you probably already know the basics of using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). But just learning a few rules doesn't mean you know everything. There are many subtle (and not-so-obvious) techniques that combine CSS capabilities in ways to get some striking design effects. Jason Cranford Teague shows you 10 of his favorite things to do with CSS (that you might not have known you could do).
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- The 10 Best JavaScript Development and Design Habits
- Mar 21, 2012
- JavaScript is an easy language to use, and a necessary one in today’s web. So much so that many developers come to JavaScript without any formal programming education. Hence, it’s not uncommon for developers to have years of JavaScript practice (or experimentation) under their belts without ever having established some best development and design habits. In this article, Larry Ullman outlines 10 guidelines that'll help every developer code more effectively.
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- The Art and Science of Influential Web Content: An Interview with Colleen Jones
- Nov 18, 2010
- Colleen Jones, author of Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content, discusses why influential web content is critical, the three real benefits of social networking, and the biggest mistake most organizations make with regard to their web content.
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- The Art and Science of Influential Web Content: What Rhetoric Really Is
- Dec 1, 2010
- In this excerpt from her book, Clout: The Art and Science of Influential Web Content, Colleen Jones distills many of the useful ideas from the debate on the theory and scope of rhetoric into four principles for web content and offers advice on when to use what principles.
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- The Art of TextEdit
- May 4, 2007
- Need a fast and easy-to-use word processor/page layout program with lists, styles, tables, advanced typography, and support for multiple languages? Ladies and gentlemen, Neale Monks wants to introduce you to TextEdit, which is a viable, attractive alternative to heavyweight word processors.
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- The Benefits of Using CSS Animations
- Dec 4, 2014
- Steven Bradley discusses the benefits of CSS animations vs. transitions in this chapter from CSS Animations and Transitions for the Modern Web.
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- The Best Interface Is No Interface: An Interview with Golden Krishna
- Feb 12, 2015
- User Experience Designer Golden Krishna talks to Peachpit about his new book, The Best Interface Is No Interface: The simple path to brilliant technology , why the screen isn't always the best answer, imagining more elegant answers beyond the screen, and the best and worst examples of user interfaces.
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- The Brand Gap: Innovate
- Jan 12, 2007
- Innovation is both coveted and feared in the business world. So how can your company be innovative if security and conformity are more widely accepted? Marty Neumeier looks at common elements of innovation and offers his take on taking the road less traveled.
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- The Building Blocks of UI Design with Adobe Illustrator
- Aug 23, 2012
- This chapter takes a look at the basic features that Illustrator provides for the building blocks of UI design.
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- The C++ Interpreter Pattern for Grammar Management
- May 12, 2006
- The world is rapidly moving away from technology-based solutions toward end-user facilitation. Simple grammars provide a surprising solution to the problem of "driving" IT infrastructure to achieve business ends. In this article, Stephen Morris shows you how to use the interpreter design pattern to create a simple C++ grammar, which can be extended to produce surprisingly powerful capabilities.
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