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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Media Composer 5 Feature Showcase By Kevin McAuliffe
We AVid users have had a BIG problem, and that was working with footage that was not OMF or (now) MXF. Any footage that wasn't captured via the digitize tool needed to be imported and converted to either OMF or MXF, and in many cases, the process was excruciatingly long if files weren't rendered with the Avid Codec. Thankfully, with Media Composer 5, that is no longer the case.
...Read More »
Media Composer 5 Feature Showcase Part 2 By Kevin McAuliffe
With Media Composer version 5, Avid is moving in not only a forward direction, but in a bit of a sideways direction as well. Premiere Pro CS5 and Final Cut Pro are drag-and-drop editing applications. This means that you can not only drag clips from the preview window and drop it into your timeline, but you now have an extensive amount of flexibility when dragging clips around in your timeline as well.
...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.
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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 »
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NO...Doesn't have a thing to do with "that" smartphone...or "that" store...or "that" tablet. It's the next generation. Kids and we mean little kids. That's what today's products are being designed for/targeted at. You happen to buy one...fine. Watch a little, little kid pick up a smartphone. He/she just uses it. They've come pre-wired and we're still trying to figure out how to IM. It's the IGen. They want it instantly. They want to use it instantly. They expect their photos, their video, their music, their stuff immediately when/where/how they want it.
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In this clip, lynda.com host Mark Abdelnour takes a look at proxy bidding. He discusses the strategy and how it works. He also discusses the maximum bid, and when to use Proxy bidding.
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The blood, gore, adrenalin challenges that were unveiled at E3 and enjoyed at ComicCon are fun to look at, easy to hold but are they really the games people want to plunk down their credit cards to own or rent time with? Seems as though the investors, the players who control the controllers have a different idea of a "good" game than the kids who develop them. While mobs of people play educational, informational, stimulating games our kid huddles in his room and mumbles "The Few, The Proud, The Gamers."
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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).
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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 »
Media Composer 5 Feature Showcase
We AVid users have had a BIG problem, and that was working with footage that was not OMF or (now) MXF. Any footage that wasn't captured via the digitize tool needed to be imported and converted to either OMF or MXF, and in many cases, the process was excruciatingly long if files weren't rendered with the Avid Codec. Thankfully, with Media Composer 5, that is no longer the case.
...Read More »
Media Composer 5 Feature Showcase Part 2
With Media Composer version 5, Avid is moving in not only a forward direction, but in a bit of a sideways direction as well. Premiere Pro CS5 and Final Cut Pro are drag-and-drop editing applications. This means that you can not only drag clips from the preview window and drop it into your timeline, but you now have an extensive amount of flexibility when dragging clips around in your timeline as well.
...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.
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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 »
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