Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 2 of 10 By Tom Geller
Keep in mind that Drupal essentially is just an attractive and flexible interface to a back end database. So it's worthwhile to take a look at that database to understand what exactly happens when you create, modify, and delete content in Drupal. This understanding will make Drupal administration a lot clearer overall and it opens up a world of possibilities if you are an advanced programmer or a database administrator.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 9 of 12 By Laurie Burruss
Inside of Photoshop we will open the two screen captures that we made, put them into one image layer and save it out as a PDF. So let's get going on this. Let's go up to the File menu, scroll down to Open, which would be Command+O or Ctrl+O, navigate out to our Desktop, and select Picture 1 and hold down your Shift key and select Picture 2, and click on Open.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 1 of 10 By Tom Geller
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit. Tom also shows how a data-driven web site can improve its interactivity by using geographic data to connect real-world addresses to maps. Exercise files accompany the course.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 7 of 12 By Laurie Burruss
We've talked about how information being well designed and having a hierarchy is important. But what makes you want to stay at a well-designed homepage? For me designing a homepage is all about thinking 3D, not 2D. It actually is a house.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 6 of 12 By Laurie Burruss
Continuing our discussion of Web design principles, we should take a look at information hierarchy. The way to think about it is WE SEE, THEN WE READ. Web designers often do 4 or 5 jobs. They design the graphic elements, they create the interface design, navigation design, interaction design and often are required to design the information. But it should be done on a hierarchical basis that makes sense from the most important to the least important, from the general to the specific.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 5 of 12 By Laurie Burruss
In this excerpt from Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Hands-On Training, Laurie Burruss, director of digital media at Pasadena City College, demonstrates the eight commandments of naming. These are the rules, these are the commandments. Never break them.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Preferences By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers the Elements Preferences, and how to customize them to suit the way that you work. She covers the preferences dialog box and goes over the various categories, and how you can tweak them.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 3 of 12 By Laurie Burruss
The last tool that I'm going to show you is the Tools dropdown menu. You click on this. At the top I want you to see that there is a number of features all grouped together and these are called Validation links. These look at your web site to make sure that it's correctly written CSS. That's it's correctly written HTML,
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Toolbar By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers the toolbar and details how to use the tools more efficiently. She details how to make the toolbar a double column for those with smaller screens, how to access all the tools using the black triangle that showcase hidden tools behind the other tools, keyboard shortcuts for the tools, and more.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 2 of 12 By Laurie Burruss
Let's take a look at the Miscellaneous dropdown toolbar. It's often overlooked, but it's one of my favorite toolbars, because it has some very sexy fun tools to use. Click on it, drag down, and what we are going to look at is Display Ruler.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Tabbed Documents By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers new documents in the Full Edit Workspace, and free floating windows. She covers the new tabbed document feature that is modeled after Photoshop CS4 that enables you to cycle through your open documents more easily. She also shows how to make them free floating again as well as how to bring a floating document into a tabbed document arrangement.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Full Edit Workspace By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses the Photoshop Elements Full Edit Workspace, goes over some of the features that have changed since version 7, and covers the new features to the updated interface, which shares many of the same traits as Photoshop CS4.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 1 of 12 By Laurie Burruss
One of the things that I like to do as a web designer/developer is to install two extensions that help save me time and are basically like having a full time person working for me. The first extension is the Web Developer toolbar and the second extension is Firebug.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 12 of 12 By Joe Marini
The whole purpose behind ECMAScript for XML is to add support for XML as a first class datatype in ECMAScript, which forms the basis for languages like JavaScript and ActionScript, if you've ever used Flash or Flex.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 11 of 12 By Joe Marini
In this example, we're going to use the Sarissa library to go back and rewrite our earlier Firefox and IE examples using this cross-browser library for handing XML.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 10 of 12 By Joe Marini
We could take what we have learned using Firefox and Internet Explorer and the ways that they handle XML differently and sit down and write our own cross browser library for handling XML code. Now thankfully we don't need to do that, because someone else already has and that library is known as the Sarissa Library.
...Read More »
Creating Photo Slideshows for Online Use By WIKI
Do you have a commercial Blog and would like to promote your product or service on it? Photos is more than words. Why not create a photo slideshow to make it more attractive? Below is a tutorial helps you to make a photo slideshow for sites or blogs.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 9 of 12 By Joe Marini
Serializing is basically the process of converting an XML document to a format that can be saved like a string. You would like to do this for several reasons. First, you can use it for saving XML content either to a file or some other persistent method, whether it's a stream or something like that. You can also use this to interchange XML content with another system.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 8 of 12 By Joe Marini
Let's move on and take a look at how we would add some entry tags to our Atom feed. You can see here on the screen I have a basic entry and it looks something like this XML construct. You can see that there's an entry tag that wraps some other tags. There's a title, a link and an id and updated date and a summary.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 6 of 12 By Joe Marini
The next real-world XML format that we are going to take a look at is called the Atom Syndication Feed and the Atom Format is a term that applies to two related formats. The first one is called the Atom Syndication Feed and that refers to web data feeds. You can think of this as analogous to being the same thing as RSS.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 5 of 12 By Joe Marini
Let's continue our coverage of the RSS file format by taking a look at some of the optional elements of the Channel tag.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 4 of 12 By Joe Marini
RSS feeds are composed of a collection of XML tags and some of them are required and some of them are optional. Now, all RSS feeds that have the version 2.0 as their version number have the RSS tag as their root. That goes along with the version attribute that contains the string 2.0, which clearly identifies the file as an RSS version 2.0 feed.
...Read More »
Real World XML - Part 3 of 12 By Joe Marini
we'll take a look at some formats like RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication. This provides data in discrete chunks that can be read individually. You have probably seen this in blogs or news sites or other syndicated content.
...Read More »
Real World XML - Part 2 of 12 By Joe Marini
XML is used in a number of different real-world settings today, but you can break down how XML is used into three main categories. In the data extraction usage, you are taking XML and using it to represent some type of data format.
...Read More »
Real World XML - Part 1 of 12 By Joe Marini
XML is the Extensible Mark-Up Language. It's tag-based like HTML is. So if you are familiar with HTML code, then XML will look very familiar to you. XML is used to describe data and the structure of that data. Because XML is extensible, you get to make your own tags up.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Quick Fix Workspace's Touch up tools By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses the the Quick Fix Touch up tools; the red eye camera flash tool, the teeth whitening tool, the blue sky tool, and the black and white conversion tool. She goes over each of these tools and shows how to use them in every day image correction.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Sharpening the image By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses the last step in your workflow after you've corrected lighting, color, and applied any other corrections to an image in Quick Fix is to sharpen the image, which you can perform from the detail panel at the bottom of the Quick Fix column.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Quick Fix Panel By Jan Kabili
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses the controls in the Quick Fix workspace and how to use them. She covers the auto button, what it does and how to use it, as well as how to reduce color cast using the auto button, how it works and how to use it to get the colors that you like versus what the auto color gives you. She also covers the balance controls.
...Read More »
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Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 2 of 10
Keep in mind that Drupal essentially is just an attractive and flexible interface to a back end database. So it's worthwhile to take a look at that database to understand what exactly happens when you create, modify, and delete content in Drupal. This understanding will make Drupal administration a lot clearer overall and it opens up a world of possibilities if you are an advanced programmer or a database administrator.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 9 of 12
Inside of Photoshop we will open the two screen captures that we made, put them into one image layer and save it out as a PDF. So let's get going on this. Let's go up to the File menu, scroll down to Open, which would be Command+O or Ctrl+O, navigate out to our Desktop, and select Picture 1 and hold down your Shift key and select Picture 2, and click on Open.
...Read More »
Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 1 of 10
Drupal's built-in data presentation tools offer several ways for web designers to clearly and attractively package their data. In Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data, Tom Geller explains how Drupal handles data so users can set up intelligent structures and implement them with Drupal's Content Construction Kit. Tom also shows how a data-driven web site can improve its interactivity by using geographic data to connect real-world addresses to maps. Exercise files accompany the course.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 8 of 12
Using Acrobat Pro and the web developer's toolkit, Laurie shows how to capture a homepage and create, in another layer, its visual framework (wireframe).
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 7 of 12
We've talked about how information being well designed and having a hierarchy is important. But what makes you want to stay at a well-designed homepage? For me designing a homepage is all about thinking 3D, not 2D. It actually is a house.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 6 of 12
Continuing our discussion of Web design principles, we should take a look at information hierarchy. The way to think about it is WE SEE, THEN WE READ. Web designers often do 4 or 5 jobs. They design the graphic elements, they create the interface design, navigation design, interaction design and often are required to design the information. But it should be done on a hierarchical basis that makes sense from the most important to the least important, from the general to the specific.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 5 of 12
In this excerpt from Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Hands-On Training, Laurie Burruss, director of digital media at Pasadena City College, demonstrates the eight commandments of naming. These are the rules, these are the commandments. Never break them.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 4 of 12
Let's take a moment to look at Firebug, the other extension that we loaded in previous lessons. There are several ways that you can access Firebug.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Preferences
In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers the Elements Preferences, and how to customize them to suit the way that you work. She covers the preferences dialog box and goes over the various categories, and how you can tweak them.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 3 of 12
The last tool that I'm going to show you is the Tools dropdown menu. You click on this. At the top I want you to see that there is a number of features all grouped together and these are called Validation links. These look at your web site to make sure that it's correctly written CSS. That's it's correctly written HTML,
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Toolbar
In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers the toolbar and details how to use the tools more efficiently. She details how to make the toolbar a double column for those with smaller screens, how to access all the tools using the black triangle that showcase hidden tools behind the other tools, keyboard shortcuts for the tools, and more.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Full Edit Workspace Panels
In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers the various panels in the Full Edit Workspace. She shows how to open the panels in full view, collapse panels, remove panels so they are free floating, and so on.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 2 of 12
Let's take a look at the Miscellaneous dropdown toolbar. It's often overlooked, but it's one of my favorite toolbars, because it has some very sexy fun tools to use. Click on it, drag down, and what we are going to look at is Display Ruler.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Tabbed Documents
In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers new documents in the Full Edit Workspace, and free floating windows. She covers the new tabbed document feature that is modeled after Photoshop CS4 that enables you to cycle through your open documents more easily. She also shows how to make them free floating again as well as how to bring a floating document into a tabbed document arrangement.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Full Edit Workspace
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses the Photoshop Elements Full Edit Workspace, goes over some of the features that have changed since version 7, and covers the new features to the updated interface, which shares many of the same traits as Photoshop CS4.
...Read More »
Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 1 of 12
One of the things that I like to do as a web designer/developer is to install two extensions that help save me time and are basically like having a full time person working for me. The first extension is the Web Developer toolbar and the second extension is Firebug.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 12 of 12
The whole purpose behind ECMAScript for XML is to add support for XML as a first class datatype in ECMAScript, which forms the basis for languages like JavaScript and ActionScript, if you've ever used Flash or Flex.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 11 of 12
In this example, we're going to use the Sarissa library to go back and rewrite our earlier Firefox and IE examples using this cross-browser library for handing XML.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 10 of 12
We could take what we have learned using Firefox and Internet Explorer and the ways that they handle XML differently and sit down and write our own cross browser library for handling XML code. Now thankfully we don't need to do that, because someone else already has and that library is known as the Sarissa Library.
...Read More »
Creating Photo Slideshows for Online Use
Do you have a commercial Blog and would like to promote your product or service on it? Photos is more than words. Why not create a photo slideshow to make it more attractive? Below is a tutorial helps you to make a photo slideshow for sites or blogs.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 9 of 12
Serializing is basically the process of converting an XML document to a format that can be saved like a string. You would like to do this for several reasons. First, you can use it for saving XML content either to a file or some other persistent method, whether it's a stream or something like that. You can also use this to interchange XML content with another system.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 8 of 12
Let's move on and take a look at how we would add some entry tags to our Atom feed. You can see here on the screen I have a basic entry and it looks something like this XML construct. You can see that there's an entry tag that wraps some other tags. There's a title, a link and an id and updated date and a summary.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 7 of 12
Atom feed tags have some required elements in order to make the feed useful. We'll take a look at these here.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 6 of 12
The next real-world XML format that we are going to take a look at is called the Atom Syndication Feed and the Atom Format is a term that applies to two related formats. The first one is called the Atom Syndication Feed and that refers to web data feeds. You can think of this as analogous to being the same thing as RSS.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 5 of 12
Let's continue our coverage of the RSS file format by taking a look at some of the optional elements of the Channel tag.
...Read More »
Real-World XML: Part 4 of 12
RSS feeds are composed of a collection of XML tags and some of them are required and some of them are optional. Now, all RSS feeds that have the version 2.0 as their version number have the RSS tag as their root. That goes along with the version attribute that contains the string 2.0, which clearly identifies the file as an RSS version 2.0 feed.
...Read More »
Real World XML - Part 3 of 12
we'll take a look at some formats like RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication. This provides data in discrete chunks that can be read individually. You have probably seen this in blogs or news sites or other syndicated content.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Action Player
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses the Action Player in Guided Edit. She shows how to run an action on an image using the Action Player and goes over the action menus.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Scene Cleaner
In this clip, host Jan Kabili shows how to use the Scene Cleaner feature in Elements' Guided Edit Workspace to create one blended image from multiple photos.
...Read More »
Real World XML - Part 2 of 12
XML is used in a number of different real-world settings today, but you can break down how XML is used into three main categories. In the data extraction usage, you are taking XML and using it to represent some type of data format.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Photomerge Exposure
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses different lighting issues and shows how to use the Photomerge Exposure feature in Elements' Guided Edit Workspace.
...Read More »
Real World XML - Part 1 of 12
XML is the Extensible Mark-Up Language. It's tag-based like HTML is. So if you are familiar with HTML code, then XML will look very familiar to you. XML is used to describe data and the structure of that data. Because XML is extensible, you get to make your own tags up.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Guided Edit Workspace
In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers the Guided Edit Workspace, the second of Photoshop Elements' three editing workspace. She shows how to get into the Guided Edit workspace and how to use the various tools in the workspace.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Quick Fix Workspace's Touch up tools
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses the the Quick Fix Touch up tools; the red eye camera flash tool, the teeth whitening tool, the blue sky tool, and the black and white conversion tool. She goes over each of these tools and shows how to use them in every day image correction.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Sharpening the image
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses the last step in your workflow after you've corrected lighting, color, and applied any other corrections to an image in Quick Fix is to sharpen the image, which you can perform from the detail panel at the bottom of the Quick Fix column.
...Read More »
Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Quick Fix Panel
In this clip, host Jan Kabili discusses the controls in the Quick Fix workspace and how to use them. She covers the auto button, what it does and how to use it, as well as how to reduce color cast using the auto button, how it works and how to use it to get the colors that you like versus what the auto color gives you. She also covers the balance controls.
...Read More »
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