Some things you'll never forget, that great tune, that awesome cartoon series, your first computer or that special game. These are the things that never age, as do some special websites. We’ll discuss today’s technologies that enable you to create the websites that will be remembered by your audience and we’ll use them to create some cool applications for your site!
Read MoreIt’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.
Read MoreThis edition is a special Xmas edition. It's showtime for Xmas, learn how to create a lovely Flash Photo Gallery. And that's not all we'll show you how to create a Flash MP3 player, and an online radio station to enjoy your audience with great music or sound effects. Chris Charlton shows you things you should know about Fireworks so you can style your content. Next to the topics that where announced in last months e-Magazine there are two bonus articles! They are all about AJAX, an exiting technology that is rapidly gaining popularity.
Next to a treasure of tutorials and information we have a great interview with JavaScript Guru and designer; Tom Dell'Aringa.
Read MoreWeb 2.0 technology and AJAX go hand in hand for they offer many possibilities and interface enhancements that lift your websites to a new level. This edition focuses on these technologies, we also feature two articles on the most popular photo and graphics editing software suite, Photoshop. So if you want to keep up with the latest demands of your users, read on!
Read MorePhotoshop, 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.
Read MoreWith the announcement of Adobe CS3 we found it was time for a special edition where we feature new articles about Dreamweaver CS3, an interview with Kenneth Berger, product manager of Dreamweaver CS3 and we talked with Flash CS3 component designer and Flash virtuoso Grant Skinner.
Don’t have CS3 yet? Don’t worry next to showing what you can do with CS3 there is enough content to keep you satisfied. With articles about Flash 8 and Photoshop CS2 this edition holds something for everyone.
Read MoreIt 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.
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreWhat is the world of web development without proper navigation, CSS and graphics editors such as Fireworks and Photoshop? In this e-Magazine professional writers show you how to work with CSS and how to use Fireworks and Photoshop using QuickTime videos, high quality graphics and text.
This week we have an interview with a major graphics and motion guru; The Ronin.
This edition offers usable content about CSS, graphics and navigation that will improve your skills. We hope the articles with their beautiful graphics, animations and interactive content will inspire you.
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Read MoreSo you want to keep on par with two of the most popular Web 2.0 technologies? Then read on! Sas Jacobs starts with an introduction to Flex and the Flex Builder 2 tool. This tool for developers that want to make great dynamic applications that can be run by the Flash Player 9 (browser plug-in). The advantage is that it contains a lot of build in components that will save you a lot of work.
After that it’s time to get started with building your first basic Flex application. You’ll learn to create a project, a user interface, compile the SWF file, add an image and how to add a fade effect.
Read MoreHappy 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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