- Using PayPal Shipping Services
- Sep 7, 2011
- Did you know that PayPal offers services to help expedite shipping your product? Michael Miller shows how to use PayPal to ship your products quickly and efficiently.
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- Adding PayPal Payment Buttons to Your Site
- Aug 31, 2011
- For many individuals and small businesses, the easiest way to sell on their websites is to use PayPal payment buttons. But how do you add these buttons to your site? It's easy, as Michael Miller explains.
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- JavaScript: Visual QuickStart Guide: Working with Images
- Aug 31, 2011
- One of the best (and most common) uses of JavaScript is to add visual interest to Web pages by animating graphics, and that’s what this chapter is all about.
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- (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.
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- Choosing the Right PayPal Payment Solution
- Aug 24, 2011
- PayPal offers a variety of payment processing solutions for merchants of all types and sizes. Which of PayPal's various solutions is best for your business? Michael Miller helps you choose the right payment solution for you.
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- John Deubert’s AcrobatiX: Two Exotic Annotations
- Aug 23, 2011
- Are people ignoring your sticky notes? Do your spreadsheet files invariable become separated from your financial reports? Acrobat supplies two annotation types that fix these problems and are strangely underused: The Sound and File Attachment tools are well worth knowing about!
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- Adobe Flex 4.5 Fundamentals: Using Simple Controls
- Aug 22, 2011
- The Flex framework has many tools that make laying out simple controls easier. In this lesson, you’ll become familiar with simple controls by building the basic user interface of a sample application.
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- Customizing Mobile Pages with jQuery Mobile in Dreamweaver CS5.5
- Aug 18, 2011
- New starter pages in Dreamweaver CS5.5 serve as templates for building mobile-friendly pages with jQuery Mobile animation and interactivity. Or you can use jQuery Mobile widgets to design mobile-friendly pages from scratch, with your own choice of jQuery Mobile objects. All without coding! David Karlins, author of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, explores this Dreamweaver magic.
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- ActionScript 3.0 and Math
- Aug 10, 2011
- In this chapter, you'll learn all the basic arithmetic operators that you'll use in ActionScript. Also, there are some convenient shortcuts to make working with math easier that you'll cover as well.
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- Style Your Website for Multiple Devices Using Dreamweaver CS5.5
- Aug 10, 2011
- To get a site to work properly across multiple devices used to be more a challenge than it is today. For instance, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 has built-in tools that help you design for multiple devices including personal computers, tablets, and phones. In this article, Adobe expert Brian Wood shows you how to use CSS3 media queries, Multiscreen Preview, and various other tools, to easily take your design and get it to work on different devices.
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- John Deubert’s AcrobatiX: A Color Management Primer
- Aug 4, 2011
- Color management is a fact of life. Nearly all of the color we see on a computer display is adjusted one way or another before it reaches our eyeballs. Acrobat expert John Deubert looks at the basics of how this adjustment works.
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- Building Mobile Pages with Dreamweaver CS5.5
- Aug 3, 2011
- Build mobile-friendly web pages based on jQuery JavaScript objects quickly and easily with Dreamweaver CS5.5. And do it without coding! David Karlins, author of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, takes you through the Dreamweaver techniques that make this eminently possible.
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- HTML5 Multimedia: A Review of Audio Codecs and File Formats
- Jul 27, 2011
- Different audio codecs can be used to output different audio file formats, a number of which are supported by HTML5. Ian Devlin reviews them in this excerpt from his book, HTML5 Multimedia: Develop and Design.
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- Using the New Adobe Forms Central to Distribute PDF Forms
- Jul 27, 2011
- Looking to create a form for a website, but don't know where to start? Adobe FormsCentral is a service that allows you to create, distribute, and analyze online forms. Adobe Certified Instructor Brian Wood shows you how you can create a good-looking form from either a template or from scratch, put it on a web page via a link or embed it directly, send it out via Twitter or other methods, collect responses, and save those responses as a PDF, Excel, or CSV (comma-separated text file).
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- Merit Over Marketing: A Manifesto
- Jul 26, 2011
- Without proof of their effectiveness, the act of deciding who will do the best design work for your company is a coin toss. And too often, this results in mediocre solutions with unremarkable results. By believing what we hear over what we see, we tell consultants and agencies that marketing is a more valued skill than design. Robert Hoekman, Jr. suggests that it's time to call for merit over marketing.
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- Dreamweaver CS5.5 Studio Techniques: Progressive Enhancement with HTML5 and CSS3
- Jul 18, 2011
- In this chapter, you’ll learn how to apply progressive enhancement to a website for a fictitious hotel.
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- John Deubert’s AcrobatiX: Secrets of Sticky Notes
- Jul 18, 2011
- May PDF users love sticky notes, those little yellow speech bubbles we scatter throughout a PDF document with comments, carps, and complaints about pages’ contents? PDF expert John Deubert uses them all the time, and it turns out they don’t have to be yellow and they don’t need to be speech bubbles. He shows us how to make our PDF sticky notes stand out.
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- Seductive Interaction Design: Are You Attractive?
- Jul 13, 2011
- Stephen P. Anderson considers the ways in which feelings and emotions can influence perceived and actual usability.
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- John Deubert’s AcrobatiX: Exporting PDF to an Image
- Jul 6, 2011
- Acrobat X enables you to export your PDF pages to a series of images. Why would you want to do that? Author John Deubert explains that sometimes a picture works better than a thousand words.
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- Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 Studio Techniques: Making Your Site Available Offline
- Jun 30, 2011
- In this chapter, you'll learn how to make a site available offline by creating a file that not only tells the browser which files to cache, but also specifies substitute files for offline use.
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