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February 2007 Issue

Building Components for your website

It is construction time! We’ll show you how to use the latest techniques in the world of web development to create a new breed of amazing applications.

Sas kicks off by listing the key points to consider when working with Web 2.0 interfaces and examine how they differ from those in Web 1.0 applications. She continues by picking out one of the latest and most popular combination of technologies, AJAX. Sas explains what technologies and processes are used in Ajax-style applications.

Time to put things into second gear, Alex July gets you coding by teaching you a couple of cool form tricks. Text fields with icons and active links, form fields changing their background color after the value has been changed, length restricted text area boxes – those are things which Alex will teach you so you can impress your users!

Alex continues to expand his toolbox to show you how to create a five star rating system in a two part series. This great application enables your users to state their views. Both articles are included in this e-Magazine. Time to paint with Flash, Alex July shows you how to skin your Flash Components to give them a fresh new look!

And last but not least we interviewed the maker of the immense popular Samorost game, which is renowned for its surrealistic organic scenarios and creative character desings.

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January 2007 Issue

Blasting of in the New Year with popular web technologies

Happy New Year! 2006 has been a great year for the web, with the merger of Adobe and Macromedia and with the breakthrough of Web 2.0 we had enough cake and whipped cream to have a blast during our design and developing time. The New Year sounds promising as well with the continued development of web 2.0, the ever increasing popularity of blogs and communities and the candy that Adobe has in store for us. We'll also continue to benefit from proven technologies that are getting better and better.

So what do we bring in this edition? Well, Dan Kicks of the New Year with a functional and attractive multilayer navigation menu using primarily CSS, with a touch of JavaScript to add some basic behaviour.

Sas Jacobs will give you an insight into Web 2.0, she explains what the hype is all about, how the architecture differs from that of Web 1.0 applications and what it means for you as a Web developer.

We interviewed the creators of two immensely popular Flash games: flOw and Cloud. flOw will be one of the first Flash games that will be released on the Playstation 3, Sony's latest game console.

We'll also finish the online Rich Text Editor with part 7 of the article series. Alex will show you how to save and load content so you can complete the editor.

To conclude this e-Magazine Richard Mariner shows you how to create a Contact Form that validates and writes it's content to a database table in a blink of an eye.

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December 2006 Issue

The Building Blocks Of Xmas

It’s Xmas time! So let’s take a look at the building blocks that enable you to make some cool photos and applications to impress your loved ones for Xmas.

We start by creating an email application that enables you to send a nice message with an attachment (maybe a cool Xmas card?).

We use AJAX so you don’t have those nasty screen refreshes, because of its increasing popularity we use PHP for the server side code.

To protect ourselves from the ones that want to ruin Xmas we’ll show you how JavaScript hacks work so you can debug your own web applications, and protect yourself from hackers.

Then we Interview Philip Shtoll who’s been just about everywhere, excluding the North pole, he uses his cultural influence for his amazing creative work.

To make Xmas even better, Linda shows you how to alter images with Photoshop. She teaches how you can retouch photographs using colour channels and the extraction, healing, patch, smudge and blur tools.

To conclude this e-Magazine we’re going to work on our online editor so you can keep your Xmas sites up to date.

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November 2006 Issue

The engine behind every website

Photoshop, CSS and JavaScript, those are the ingredients behind many of today’s websites and applications. Every website needs a design, and most websites use photographs, that’s when Photoshop comes into the picture. CSS helps you to position your elements using efficient and cross browser compatible code. And last but not least JavaScript helps you to create the functionality and navigation of your website.

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October 2006 Issue

The DMXzone e-Magazine celebrates its first birthday!

One year ago, DMXzone created a new service; a monthly e-Magazine. The Magazine aimed to not only help web developers and designers with the best tutorials but also to entertain, inspire and to inform our users on the latest developments in the web development world.

Our latest e-Magazine survey gives us reason to celebrate, as it indicates we achieved this mission. Nevertheless our aim for the next year is to continue to improve the contents of the e-Magazine to a new level so each edition will be better then ever. We’d like
to thank you for your support over the year and we like to celebrate our anniversary edition with many new improvements to the content and layout of the e-Magazine and two bonus tutorials on ASP.NET.

Ok let’s start to tell what’s on the cake; we’re beginning with one of your favorite topics; CSS and navigation. Nancy shows you how to build a navigation bar using Dreamweaver and CSS. In a few minutes you’ll have a navigation that loads quickly, looks like a peach
and involves the use of CSS for navigation and rollovers.

Then it’s time to move on to another popular topic, Tom Dell’Aringa shows you how to use AJAX for your user interface with The “Yellow Fade” Technique. More AJAX and usability in our interview with the man behind AJAX, Jesse James Garrett. This young legend gives
his thoughts on about AJAX and usability.

On to the next topic, Alex July shows you how to build your own Rich Text editor using JavaScript and DHTML. This edition contains two full parts of the series. Followed up by another tutorial of Tom Dell’Aringa that uses JavaScript to make the form appear as if we were moving through a series of steps instead of using a very long form.

Time for some multimedia, Sas Jacobs shows you how to create a Video Player that plays external FLV files. Using XML and Flash you’ll be able to create a player that enables the user to choose a video clip from a drop down list which will play automatically. You’ll also
be able to pause and rewind the clip.

And to put the icing on the cake we have two extra articles that are all about ASP.NET. Kevin Koch shows you how to build an image gallery, uploader and thumbnailer with ASP.NET. So let’s start designing and coding, hardcore style!

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September 2006 Issue

Dynamic Design

This edition contains all the technologies that you need for dynamic design of sites and applications. Our writers show you how to use the best technologies behind the sites and applications you always wanted to make. We use AJAX, Flash, Flash Lite, design and accessibility to create applications that will set the standard in future websites.

First we used the latest AJAX technologies to create a contacts application.

After that it’s time to move on to Flash Lite, where we introduce you to Flash technology for mobile’s and pda’s. We’ll create a simple standalone application that shows today’s date as well as the number of days until Christmas.

Then it’s time to develop Flash database interaction using Dreamweaver by creating an update mechanism for an authentication application.

We finish up with two articles about design and accessibility. We’ll show you how to use CSS to create accessible and well designed sites.

Last but not least we have an interview with creative director Garrett Nantz, the creator of many great sites like the Da Vinci Code.

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August 2006 Issue

The Magic Box

This edition contains all the technologies that you need for dynamic design sites and applications. Our writers show you how to use the best technologies behind the sites and applications you always wanted to make. We use AJAX, Flash, Flash Lite, design and accessibility to create applications that will set the standard in future websites.

First we used the latest AJAX technologies to create a contacts application.

After that it’s time to move on to Flash Lite, where we introduce you to Flash technology for mobile’s and pda’s. We’ll create a simple standalone application that shows today’s date as well as the number of days until Christmas.

Then it’s time to develop Flash database interaction using Dreamweaver by creating a an update mechanism for an authentication application.

We finish up with two articles about design and accessibility. We’ll show you how to use CSS to create accessible and well designed sites.

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July 2006 Issue

Content and Design

It’s summer time so let’s talk about some hot topics. This edition focuses on design and content management on websites.

This months interview is with one of the most important people behind Adobe‘s Spry Framework for AJAX, Donald Booth.

In the first two articles we will explain how to use Adobe's Contribute, a simple but very capable and affordable content management system for your websites.

After that we will take a look at design and accessibility for your website. We begin by explaining the difference between usability and accessibility. Then Linda moves on to the definitions of content, structure and presentation and whether content can be separated from structure or even from presentation in Websites designs.

Now it’s time to take a peak at how to improve your website by using a mix of CSS and Tables. Jolantha Belik shows you how to use the built-in features of Dreamweaver to get neat hybrid layout pages.

Our last article focuses on Flash and Database Interaction with Dreamweaver. We will show you how to display database records in Flash. We will demonstrate this by building navigation and a user management system with Dreamweaver and Flash.

As an additional bonus we have a great tip from our designer Stephen Carnay on how to create 3d fonts in Illustrator.

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June 2006 Issue

In this edition we show you the most important steps in creating a site with stylish content that is connected to a database.

We’ll start out by exploring the changes in Dreamweaver 8 that have to do with site maintenance or administration. That way you can have a good clean start for your site.

Anyone who designs websites for a living, or who has built their own website, has faced the need to design and build a banner for the Homepage. That’s why David Nicholls shows you how to design and construct such a banner. The article uses a real-world client project as the basis for the design.

As a web designer you often have to use photos on your website that haven’t been made by a professional photographer. We'll show you how to improve such a photo with Firework’s various image filters and effects.

Furthermore we'll show you how easy it is to develop Flash / Database interactivity using the visual tools of our favorite web editor. Using Dreamweaver, we’ll make Flash “talk” to a database in order to create, view, update and delete records.

The last article takes a look at two powerful concepts in ASP.NET, first we connect to an SQL server database and then we use the data within that database to populate a DataGrid component to display a dynamic table on an ASPX Web Form.

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May 2006 issue

It’s spring time so lets start with some programming before the sun burns you out of your chair. This edition focuses on data, time and style.

We start out with an article about DHTML and Dynamic Client Side Table Sorting and show you how to manipulate data without making a round trip to the server.

Then we learn you how to use the Date Object in JavaScript so you can create applications that are ready for the summer time.

More about time in part 3 of the PHP calendars article series. This time we look at the PHP commands that are used to covert a date or time into a UNIX timestamp, which we can then use to search the database. We move on and look at linking events stored in a MySQL database of our calendar.

To continue the spring in a stylish way we show you how to combine CSS and tables in a peaceful coexistence.

After that Rachel walks you through the steps of creating an accessible events calendar.

Then it’s time for more CSS to style your websites and applications, in CSS My Way, Nancy shows you the power of Dreamweaver 8 CSS features.

Last but not least we have an Interview with DMXzone writer, designer and artists Linda Goin. Linda has won many awards and enjoys a lot of recognition in the design world.

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April 2006 issue

This edition is all about AJAX and Flash. No, it is not the Greek god and its little helper, these two technologies that have been gaining momentum like no other. We show you how to show off with an AJAX Image Gallery and a Flash portfolio. This edition also teaches you how to print in Flash so you can print just about anything you’d like. Furthermore we have a bonus article on Creating Calendars in PHP.

Using your AJAX image gallery your visitors will be able to pick from a list of gallery albums and load the album’s thumbnails. In the second part we’ll show you how to add some new feature and improve upon the basis established earlier.

After that we’ll move on to printing in Flash. We’ll take you through on how you can use it to print the Stage from your Flash movie and then we’ll print out a movie clip that isn’t visible in the published SWF file.

Next on the list is creating a Flash portfolio movie. In part I we’ll build a portfolio web site by loading the data from an XML file. And in part II we’ll populate the interface from the XML file and have created a working application.

Last but not least. creating calendars in PHP. We’re first going to look at styling the calendar using CSS, then at the best way to store a time and date in a MySQL database and at how to change a datetime field into a timestamp.

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March 2006 issue

This month two popular topics will be covered: we’ll show you how to make amazing applications in PHP and we teach you the essentials about Fireworks and Masking.

We begin with teaching you how to create a simple e-mail form in PHP. Why? The answer is easy, because you want your site's visitors to be able to contact you, but you don’t want to be bothered with endless spam messages. After that we’ll show you how to create a simple calendar in PHP. This calendar uses a number of useful programming techniques, which can be utilised in many other areas as well. The next tutorial teaches you how to build a dynamically generated Photo gallery using PHP. The necessary information such as searchable keywords are stored in a database. In the final PHP article we’ll be taking a look at creating a log in system using PHP Server Behaviours. Our system will provide an admin as well as the log in system itself.

Then it’s time for Fireworks to kick in. This time we’ll start with showing you how to use masks. They make it easy to cut out or hide away parts of your work, without having to destroy the original image. The second Fireworks article teaches you to simulate a mask without the drawbacks associated with masks.

Next to a treasure of tutorials and information we have a great interview with design guru Danny Franzreb.

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