- Midcom: How an Intranet was Reborn
- May 4, 2001
- Expert Web designer Christie Caronis describes the ups and downs of creating her first intranet -- with multiple linked pages, for a company with more than 1,000 employees.
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- Case Study | Power to the People: The Slashdot Moderator System
- May 1, 2001
- from Community Building on the Web, by Amy Jo Kim
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- The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Web Searchers
- May 1, 2001
- Peachpit art
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- Design Strategies of Successful Communities
- Apr 27, 2001
- People are people, even in cyberspace. In this excerpt from her book, Community Building on the Web, Amy Jo Kim outlines nine design strategies and three basic community design principles that characterize successful, sustainable online communities.
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- How to Find Customers Online
- Apr 27, 2001
- This article from Creating Stores on the Web shows you how to find customers on the Usenet, mailing lists, and online forums; how to post messages that will make people aware of your store; and what might hurt your customer acquisition efforts.
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- What the Web Can Do
- Apr 27, 2001
- This excerpt from Putting Your Small Business on the Web by Maria Langer explains how to reduce marketing costs and create a more professional business image for your company on the Web.
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- How to Create Rollovers with JavaScript
- Apr 20, 2001
- This article, from Javascript for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 3e, shows how to create simple rollovers, how to avoid some common rollover mistakes, and how to enhance your rollovers to make them more effective.
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- How to Set Up a Web Cam
- Apr 20, 2001
- Been thinking about setting up a web cam? It's probably easier than you think. Let Elizabeth Parker, author of The Little Web Cam Book, show you exactly what you need and how to do it.
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- PDF and Graphics Strategies
- Apr 6, 2001
- When publishing PDF documents, size is a large issue. The way graphics are initially inserted and saved as well as the type of graphics used can dramatically change the size of a PDF file. This article discusses strategies for reducing PDF size.
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- PDF Font Strategies
- Apr 6, 2001
- Fonts are an intrinsic part of how PDFs work, and the decision of whether and how to include fonts is critical. This article discusses font options to consider when designing PDF documents, including embedding, anti-aliasing, sizing, and readability.
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- Applying a Tracing Image and Adding Layers in Dreamweaver
- Mar 30, 2001
- Dreamweaver allows web designers to move blocks of text and images on screen - something that HTML doesn't allow. These exercises by Lynda Weinman and Garo Green cover Dreamweaver's key features that will position elements anywhere on your Web page.
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- Clickable Image Maps in Adobe GoLive
- Mar 30, 2001
- There are two steps to setting up client-side clickable image maps in Adobe GoLive 4. In this article, Peachpit Press author Shelly Brisbin describes how to set up the map and link the hots spots in your image map.
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- Elizabeth Castro's Top 5 HTML Questions (and Answers)
- Mar 30, 2001
- Elizabeth Castro, best-selling author of HTML, XML, and CGI books for Peachpit Press, answers the top five most frequent questions she receives from readers.
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- Navigation Design
- Mar 30, 2001
- The focus of good navigation design is organization, not graphics. In this article, authors Robin Williams and John Tollett provide some basic rules and examples to help you become a better interface designer.
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- Real World Adobe GoLive Tips
- Mar 30, 2001
- Shave hours off your site creation and management duties with these industrial-strength Adobe GoLive 4 production tips from expert Peachpit Press authors Jeff Carlson and Glenn Fleishman.
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- Transforming XML with XSLT
- Mar 30, 2001
- This article by best-selling Peachpit Press author Elizabeth Castro explains how to use XSLT to transform XML documents to create other XML documents or HTML document for viewing in both the newest and legacy browsers.
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- Creating Colors
- Mar 23, 2001
- Katherine Ulrich, author of Flash 5 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, takes you through creating, defining, and selecting colors in Flash for Windows and Macintosh.
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- How to Create Animations in Fireworks
- Mar 23, 2001
- Fireworks gives you an extensive collection of tools and commands to create simple animations. Here Sandee Cohen, author of Fireworks 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide shows how to make your artwork come to life.
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- Interactivity in Flash
- Mar 23, 2001
- Three things are needed to make interactivity work in Flash. Learn what they are and how they apply to Flash in this article by Derick Franklin and Brooks Patton, authors of Flash!4 Creative Web Animation.
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- Tweening in Flash
- Mar 23, 2001
- There are two drawbacks to frame-by-frame animation: First, it's labor intensive; second, it creates large files. Here Katherine Ulrich discusses the two ways Flash mitigates both problems with a process called tweening.
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