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Working with Type in the Adobe Illustrator CS5 Perspective Grid: Jun 21, 2010; In print or online, readers are unimpressed by text that's just plonked down onto a graphical background. On the other hand, type with tasteful effects can make a publication or web page much more inviting. David Karlins, author of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: Essential Techniques, shows how to manipulate text in Adobe Illustrator CS5 to lend great visual perspective.

Working with Web Page Files: May 16, 2003; It's important to know how to create the files in which you'll use code before you start writing (X)HTML elements and attributes. Elizabeth Castro explains how to create, edit, and save Web page files in this sample chapter.

Working with XML and JavaScript: Sep 13, 2002; This sample chapter describes "the XML Mystique," defines XML, and explains how to reading and show XML data with JavaScript.

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.

Write Menus that Mean Something: May 17, 2002; There are several keys to writing meaningful menus for your website. Jonathan and Lisa Price bring you up to speed with a chapter from their book "Hot Text: Web Writing That Works."

Writing Functions and Closures in Swift: Dec 11, 2014; In this chapter from Swift for Beginners: Develop and Design, you’ll learn how to tidy up your Swift code into nice clean reusable components called functions.

Writing REALbasic Code: Apr 11, 2003; Learn how to control your objects' behavior by exploring REALbasic's syntax and Code Editor. Walk through an HTML editor example and by the end of this sample chapter, you will be able to write your own REALbasic code.

XHTML by Example: A Hybrid Layout (Part I): Jul 18, 2003; Use your beginning XHTML skills to mark up a real-world design project. This is the first step in Jeffrey Zeldman's "teaching by doing" XHTML plan.

XML to XHTML Transformations with XSLT Processors: Jun 22, 2001; In this article, Steven Holzner, author of Inside XSLT, explains V183

XML Transference from Data to Layout in Dreamweaver MX: Mar 21, 2003; Combine the power of XML and the ease of Dreamweaver and learn how to automate the production of Web pages from XML data.

XmlReader and XmlWriter: Oct 26, 2001; XmlReader and XmlWriter provide an XML interface that is more efficient and easy to use than the DOM access methods of the past. Dale Michalk shows you how to use these tools in your own XML code.

XPath Functions: Jun 2, 2009; Kevin Howard Goldberg details many common XPath functions, including comparing two values, formatting numbers, and extracting substrings.

XSL Transformations: Feb 23, 2001; XSLT is a relatively new specification, and it’s still developing in many ways. In this chapter from Inside XML, the author discusses the two parts of Extensible Styles Language (XSL) —a transformation language and a formatting language.

XSLT Transformations: Jun 22, 2001; To manipulate data in, or transform, an XML document, you use an XSLT stylesheet, which contains the rules you've set up for transforming an XML document. Here Steven Holzner, author of Inside XSLT, shows you how it's done.

Your Product's eBay Pictures: Oct 27, 2006; Pictures are obviously important tools to help sell your products on eBay. But what's the best way to get the photos, and how many do you need? These and other photo questions are answered in this sample chapter.