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"The Best Design Advice I Ever Got" with Giles Colborne: Nov 6, 2012; Giles Colborne, author of Simple and Useable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design, recalls an important book that shaped his career early on and reminds us that communicating effectively, above all else, should be the goal of great design.

"The Best Design Advice I Ever Got" with Jakob Nielsen: Sep 25, 2012; Jakob Nielsen, coauthor of Mobile Usability, reminds us that anything you think is easy or good might be terrible for the target audience.

(Serious) Fun with Web, Mobile, and Dreamweaver CS5.5: Aug 30, 2011; With the rapid spread of smartphones and tablets, responsive web design has become the order of the day. No problem, argues David Powers, author of Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 Studio Techniques: Designing and Developing for Mobile with jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. Dreamweaver CS5.5 puts the necessary tools at your disposal, and formerly dreaded chores, like rounding corners on elements, or adding drop shadows and transparent backgrounds, have become a real pleasure.

10 Minutes with Flash: ActionScript You'll Never Have to Write Again: Feb 6, 2004; Robert Hoekman, Jr. is just as tired of writing code as you are, so he offers up some timely tips on storing ActionScript and loading it on-the-fly in this fourth installment of "10 Minutes with Flash."

10 Minutes with Flash: Bitmap Video Effects: Dec 5, 2003; In the first of a bi-weekly series of articles called "10 Minutes with Flash," Robert Hoekman, Jr. demonstrates how to make reality pretty again with faux video effects using simple bitmaps.

10 Minutes with Flash: Collision Detection for Flash Games: Mar 26, 2004; Spend 10 minutes with Robert Hoekman, Jr. to learn how to create collision detection for a Flash game.

10 Minutes with Flash: Creating a Custom Panel: Jul 23, 2004; In only 10 minutes, Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how to create a custom panel that pulls up Flash tutorials faster than you can say "Resources."

10 Minutes with Flash: Creating a Loader Component for Flash Player 7: Jun 25, 2004; Don't like writing the same script more than once? In just 10 minutes, Robert Hoekman, Jr. will show you how to turn a pre-loader script into a reusable component.

10 Minutes with Flash: Custom, Portable Color Palettes: Apr 9, 2004; Want to get rid of that pesky Web 216-color palette that Flash uses by default? Spend 10 minutes with Robert Hoekman, Jr. to learn how to replace it with your own custom color palette that can be reused in other projects.

10 Minutes with Flash: Graphics Tablets and Flash MX 2004: Apr 23, 2004; Step away from that mouse right now! In 10 minutes, Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how to make the best use of your graphics tablet while working with Flash.

10 Minutes with Flash: Quick Tricks, Part 2: Jun 11, 2004; Didn't get enough tips and tricks in the last "10 Minutes with Flash" article? Fret not. Robert Hoekman, Jr. has a few other tricks in his arsenal, and each can help you work more efficiently and make you a happier Flash geek.

10 Minutes with Flash: Repeating History through Commands: Dec 23, 2003; Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how reliving the past with History and Commands can help you automate your life.

10 Minutes with Flash: Streaming Video with Flash MX 2004 Professional: May 13, 2004; Robert Hoekman shows you how to use the media display component included within Flash MX 2004 Professional. This component allows you to enable your video to play external Flash Video (FLV) files without having to do any Actionscript coding. Using this component, the external videos will actually stream to your users.

10 Minutes with Flash: SWF-to-SWF Communication: Dec 17, 2004; In the world of complicated web applications, there's often a need to communicate between multiple SWF files and to transfer data from one to another. In only 10 minutes, Robert Hoekman, Jr. gets you headed in the right direction with SWF-to-SWF communication.

10 Minutes with Flash: The World According to Shared Libraries: Jan 9, 2004; In 10 minutes or less, Robert Hoekman, Jr. can show you how to share assets between movies during development or on the fly.

10 Minutes with Flash: Using LoadVars to Send Form Data: Mar 12, 2004; In the latest installment of his 10 Minutes with Flash series, Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how to package up form data and send it to the server.

10 Minutes with Flash: Working with Web Services: Aug 13, 2004; Robert Hoekman, Jr. shows you how to connect to web services and display the resulting data in Flash. And, as always, he does it in 10 minutes.

10 Minutes with Flash: Writing Custom Behaviors: Jul 9, 2004; Don't you wish Flash MX 2004 came with more built-in behaviors? In only 10 minutes or less, Robert Hoekman, Jr. helps you create your own behaviors and save yourself lots of grief.

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