- Adobe Acrobat X for Windows and Macintosh: Creating PDF Files
- Feb 23, 2011
- Acrobat has many powerful features that let you create PDF files: you can convert many common file types to PDF, scan paper documents directly into PDF, convert Web pages to PDF files, and combine several PDF files into a single document. In this chapter, you learn how to do all of these tasks.
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- Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP: Validating Input on the Server
- Feb 22, 2011
- In this lesson, with the help of a powerful third-party script library—Zend Framework— David Powers shows you how to create a robust user registration system that validates input on the server.
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- Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 with PHP: Why PHP and Why Dreamweaver CS5?
- Feb 21, 2011
- David Powers explains how Dreamweaver has become a powerful development environment for PHP without losing any of its visual development features.
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- Stunning CSS3: Speech Bubbles
- Feb 21, 2011
- One of the most fun and easy uses of CSS3 is for layering on visual "frosting"—non-essential visual flair and little details that can push your design from adequate to alluring. Zoe Mickley Gillenwater uses some of the most straightforward and well-supported CSS3 properties to create the appearance of three-dimensional speech bubbles that can be used to style blog comments, pull quotes, and more.
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- The Elements of User Experience: The Scope Plane: Functional Specifications and Content Requirements
- Feb 17, 2011
- There are two main reasons to bother to define requirements: so you know what you're building and so you know what you're not building. Jesse James Garrett examines the importance and process of defining the scope of your website, including defining requirements and functional specifications.
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- Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium How-Tos: Working with Illustrator
- Feb 16, 2011
- Whatever task you throw at Illustrator, or whatever your particular artwork needs are, there are a multitude of features that help you explore creatively, work efficiently, and publish reliably.
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- Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design: Process
- Feb 15, 2011
- Khoi Vinh outlines principles that every designer should keep in mind when building a grid.
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- Building an E-Commerce Site with PHP: Making Product Recommendations
- Feb 14, 2011
- Just as you’re more likely to watch a movie that comes recommended, recommending products to customers is a great way to increase an e-commerce site’s sales. In this article, Larry Ullman walks you through the logic required, and the decisions that need to be made, to implement such a system.
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- Using the Brush Tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Feb 9, 2011
- Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, creates custom brushes in Illustrator for all sorts of purposes. Follow along with Brian's tutorials and videos, and soon you'll be equally addicted to creating custom brushes for your own Brushes panel.
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- How to Sell Design and Influence People
- Feb 8, 2011
- If you think 'manipulation' is a dirty word, you're wrong. Robert Hoekman, Jr., author of Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web and Mobile Application Design, Second Edition, explains how your ability to influence, persuade, or manipulate people (call it what you like) is crucial to moving your organization from design chaos to lauded success.
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- Creating a Customer Review System in PHP and MySQL
- Feb 7, 2011
- Adding a system of product reviews to an e-commerce site is one of many ways you can encourage customers to make a purchase. Author Larry Ullman shows you how in this article, including discussion of common features, definitions of the underlying database tables, and the actual PHP code and SQL commands.
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- Effortless Flex 4 Development: Adding Authentication
- Jan 27, 2011
- In this excerpt from Effortless Flex 4 Development, Larry Ullman explains a few of the options for implementing authentication and authorization.
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- Effortless Flex 4 Development: Data Paging
- Jan 26, 2011
- In this excerpt from Effortless Flex 4 Development, Larry Ullman shows you how to use data paging, where only a subset of records are fetched with each service call.
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- Effortless Flex 4 Development: Using the Network Monitor
- Jan 25, 2011
- In this excerpt from Effortless Flex 4 Development, Larry Ullman shows you how to use the Network Monitor tool, which can be used to observe client-server interactions.
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- Effortless Flex 4 Development: Flash Security Model
- Jan 24, 2011
- In this excerpt from Effortless Flex 4 Development, Larry Ullman discusses the Flash security model.
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- Effortless Flex 4 Development: Four Data Formats
- Jan 21, 2011
- In this excerpt from Effortless Flex 4 Development, Larry Ullman looks at four data formats—plain text, XML, JSON, and AMF—and evaluates the pros and cons of each format.
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- Effortless Flex 4 Development: Item Renderers
- Jan 20, 2011
- Many of the data-driven components, including List, ComboBox, DropDownList, Tree, DataGrid, and AdvancedDataGrid, can use item renderers to control how data is displayed. In this excerpt from Effortless Flex 4 Development, Larry Ullman shows you how to work with item renderers.
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- Effortless Flex 4 Development: Datagroup
- Jan 19, 2011
- Larry Ullman shows you how to create and control the layout of a DataGroup in this excerpt from Effortless Flex 4 Development.
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- Adobe Acrobat X Classroom in a Book: Actions
- Jan 11, 2011
- Learn how to run an action in Acrobat Pro, create an action, create an instruction step for an action, set options in steps so the user doesn’t need to provide input, prompt the user for input on specific steps, and share an action.
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- Adobe Acrobat X Classroom in a Book: About PDF Portfolios
- Jan 5, 2011
- In Acrobat X Pro, you can assemble multiple files into an integrated PDF Portfolio. This lesson shows you how.
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