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UI Design with Adobe Illustrator CS6: The Illustrator Workspace: Apr 23, 2012; The Adobe Illustrator workspace is designed to allow you to be as creative as you want without a lot of distractions. In this excerpt from UI Design with Adobe Illustrator, Rick Moore shows you how to choose the right measurement units, select the optimal color space, and create artboards and organize your work.

Undercover User Experience Design: Making It Real: Oct 28, 2010; The authors of Undercover User Experience Design discuss deliverables that you can use to document your ongoing design work, including sitemap, storyboard, and wireframe.

Understand the Basics of Digital Signatures in Adobe Acrobat X: May 31, 2011; Digitally signing a document can be simple or complex, depending on how you approach it and what you expect from it. Adobe expert Brian Wood explores the generic process for digitally signing a PDF document using Acrobat X and what you can expect.

Untold Mysteries of CSS: Dec 23, 2004; Molly Holzschlag looks behind the curtain to show you how three untold CSS mysteries can be put to use to assist with diagnostics during development, savvy global styling, out-and-out hacks, better design flexibility, and accessibility.

Up Late with CSS3, and Loving It!: Jan 22, 2010; Andy Clarke believes in experiments, Dan Cederholm is excited about layering, and John Allsopp reveals an nth-child secret. Learn the favorite CSS tricks of these three web design experts.

Usability Experts Are from Mars, Graphic Designers Are from Venus: Jan 25, 2002; Usability mavens such as Jakob Nielsen think that the Web is an ill-used database. Graphic designers such as Kioken think that it is a fledgling multimedia platform. Could both groups be right? Curt Cloninger looks at both sides of this issue.

Use Flash Behaviors and ActionScripting to Control Audio Playback: Apr 14, 2006; One of the great strength of Flash is its capability to consistently and reliably play audio across a wide variety of computer platforms and environments. According to James Gonzalez, this capability might be the best reason to use Flash for projects in which sound is an important component. Read on to learn how to use Flash sound behaviors and ActionScript to control audio playback in your Flash projects.

Using a Controller for JSP Pages: Feb 22, 2002; Can JSP programmers utilize the Model-View-Controller, or MVC, method of programming for their JSP-only Web applications? Drew Falkman discusses the pros and cons.

Using Adobe Media Encoder in Flash Professional CC: May 16, 2013; You can convert your video files to the proper FLV or F4V format using Adobe Media Encoder, a stand-alone application that comes with Flash Professional. Adobe Media Encoder can convert single files or multiple files (known as batch processing) to make your workflow easier.

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.

Using an Encrypted Local Database in Adobe AIR: Apr 7, 2009; Secure data storage and retrieval is a cornerstone of most websites. Just as Adobe AIR applies web technologies to create desktop applications, as of AIR 1.5 you can also incorporate an encrypted local database in your desktop applications. Larry Ullman provides the details.

Using and Creating GoLive Text Macros: Oct 4, 2002; Did you know that GoLive has built-in text macros for automating repetitive text entry? This project shows you how to use, create, and get the most out of your text macros.

Using and Understanding Masks, Gradients, and Blend Effects in Adobe Illustrator: Mar 30, 2007; In the past, if someone gave you a pile of digitally produced artwork it was a snap to divide the images easily into two piles—those created in Photoshop and those done in Illustrator. Not so today. While Photoshop has garnered the ability to create vector shapes, so has Illustrator been given incredible tools and methods to give line art three dimensionality through techniques such as masks, blends, gradients, and true transparency. In this sample chapter, you'll learn how to make images that wow using masks, gradients, and shadows.

Using Animation to Build Movement in Flash MX: Dec 27, 2002; Animating in Flash is where the real excitement begins. If you do it right, you'll find that you can control your audience's emotions in ways they'll not soon forget. Sound appealing? Read on.

Using Contribute 2: Oct 24, 2003; Learn here how Macromedia Contribute 2 makes it easier than ever to publish and update web pages yourself.

Using Dreamweaver MX to Build Query Statements: Nov 29, 2002; This brief tutorial teaches how to build database queries in Dreamweaver MX.

Using Dreamweaver Template Expressions: Dec 27, 2002; Discover how Dreamweaver MX's new template expressions feature offers a great deal of flexibility and power.

Using Fireworks MX Commands: Sep 26, 2002; Using Macromedia's Fireworks MX, you can create graphics specifically for the Internet. Matthew David helps you navigate the Fireworks built-in commands and shows you where to go to download other killer commands.

Using Flash 5's Stock Smart Clips: Oct 26, 2001; This sample chapter from Inside Flash 5 explains how to use, get information in and out of, and customize smart clips.