This work also features a web site which includes all the files needed to complete the tutorials.

    Your project based-guide to learning Dreamweaver MX tips, tricks, and best practices with 13 unique tutorials is easy to follow step-by-step tutorials guide you through the projects.The authors use their knowledge of Dreamweaver MX to select approximately 13 areas that are troublesome for professional users of Dreamweaver. They examine each of these areas through carefully designed projects. Each project provides guidance in the form of tips, tricks, and best practices to enhance the reader's ability to use Dreamweaver MX effectively.

    All the illustrations are stored in high-resolution format on the enclosed free CD-ROM and are ready to use for professional quality printed media and web page design. The pictures can also be used to produce postcards, or to decorate your letters, flyers, etc. They can be imported directly from the CD into most design, image- manipulation, illustration, word-processing and e-mail programs; no installation is required. For most applications, single images can be used free of charge. Please consult the introduction to this book, or visit our website for conditions.

    It also show the transition of personal site design to commercial work.

    You can customize each project or use them as launching pads for their own projects. This book covers the functional upgrades and best practices of Fireworks with special emphasis on building web graphics, animation, navigation, and integrating Fireworks into the workflow. Macromedia's Fireworks allows users to develop illustrations, manipulate photos, and design layouts while offering integration with all professional web applications including Flash, Dreamweaver, and UltraDev. CD-ROM contains all files needed to complete projects in the book.

    It teaches how to bring the principles of human psychology, creativity and understanding to website design. The author demonstrates creative methods for constructing bandwidth efficient sites that also connect with the user in the most satisfying way. The website includes Flash animated illustrations of the concepts discussed, as well as articles that correspond to each chapter.

    The CD has a master index for all seven books and a powerful search engine--and all the text is extensively hyper-linked--so you can find what you're looking for quickly. Packaged with the hard copy of "XML in a Nutshell, Second Edition," it takes up less than 2 inches of bookshelf space, and when you're on the run, you can just grab the CD and go. The seven books included on the CD -- over 3,000 pages of useful O'Reilly reference and tutorials-- if purchased separately, would retail for $269.65 (US), but the "XML CD Bookshelf" retails for only $119.95.They say good things come in small packages. The "XML CD Bookshelf" packs a stack of essential XML books into one comprehensive, immensely convenient, and portable small package.Books included in the "XML CD Bookshelf":"XML in a Nutshell, Second Edition""XSLT""XML Schema""SAX2""Java & XML, Second Edition""Java and XSLT""Perl & XML"

    

    Each book gives absolutely unrivaled coverage of a specific aspect of computer work, with surefire techniques that will save hours of work and make the job simpler. It's across the board coverage for anyone wanting to manage a website with style and panache! Beginning with the basic theory behind moving images, this starter’s manual explains how browsers understand Web animation; how to use it judiciously; and how to achieve a variety of effects. Find out exactly what you can animate, and different ways to create the illusion of movement. A number of simple techniques are displayed, with information on animating with Flash and animated type.

    These Web sites, designed by Web pioneers, push the boundaries of art, design and technology. They provide new ways of navigating through information and data, and they have influenced and inspired users and Web creators throughout the world. Included are over 200 Websites that use the most advanced technology, the most challenging concepts, and the most stunning page designs. Along with the sites are question and answer interviews with the designer geniuses that created the sites. It is a Web creator's bible, a Web user's heaven, and a Web programmer's dream

    It is appropriate for, intermediate to advanced courses in Web design or Web graphics using Photoshop.

    It doesn't mean making boring pedestrian web sites, and it doesn't mean abandoning Flash. Quite the contrary, Flash offers advanced usability elements that traditional HTML websites could never hope to achieve. This book will show designers how to start thinking about their users and, more importantly, how to translate that understanding when they start designing or coding."Skip Intro" moves beyond traditional usability books by shying away from listing examples of "why this is wrong" or "why this is right." Instead, it guides designers through understanding the site requirements and their intended users and then starts them down the road of developing for those users, by taking them step-by-step through design scenerios, rather than providing strict rules of usability.

    This text provides the practical tools, design techniques, and testing methods to implement web standards without losing any of the functionality of your web site.

    Central to the book is a series of progressively challenging projects, ranging from traditional print to sophisticated websites, interactive CD-ROMs and multimedia, and 3-D motion graphics. Heavily illustrated with compelling work by students enrolled in Graphic Design programs across the U.S., The Digital Designer takes readers step-by-step through the design process with unprecedented attention to developing and refining the design concept, as well as the execution strategy. Narrative solicited directly from Graphic Design instructors accompanies illustrations of high-quality student work, helping to explain and reinforce important digital design principles and methods. The result is a book that empowers 21st century Graphic Designers, enabling them to work effectively across a wide range of fully digital and exponentially expansive media as they promote goods and services and build links between present and future. Benefits: Each project introduces a "design problem," and then leads the reader through the process of designing a solution through conceptualization, research, development of the design strategy and production. Emphasis is on design research and design strategies, equipping readers with the knowledge needed to proceed self-critically through each step of the design process. Projects range from business cards and letterhead to software packaging and high-tech information kiosks, exposing readers to the entire portfolio of skills required of today's digital designers. Best practices reveal solutions to digital design challenges that truly work and are endorsed by Graphic Design instructors at reading colleges and universities across the country. Helpful advice and guidance for each project is prov