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2 Top Flash MX 2004 Professional Tutorials

This is a pdf document that details how to set-up and code 2 professional features in Flash MX 2004.

Flash Tutorial #1:
Create a Video Slideshow with Cue Points in 13 steps.
Using Flash MX 2004, you can quite easily create a slide presentation with cue points.

Flash Tutorial #2:
How to code a script to Play FLV (Flash Video) Files

2 Top Flash MX 2004 Professional Tutorials
(87kb, pdf format)

Free Photoshop Elements Ebook

Here is a blog post about a freely available ebook for Photoshop Elements 4. It demonstrates how to fix up your images and organize all your photos by date, event, place, or subject for easy viewing, and then turn them into projects.

This Photoshop ebook shows you how to do the following:
  • Improve photos: remove red-eye, adjust colors, and highlight the subject of your photo
  • Merge multiple photos to make artistic compositions
  • Construct your own Web galleries
  • Put your own artwork on T-shirts, magnets, or tattoos
  • Create custom party hats and banners
  • Make original labels for both music CDs and photo archive disks
  • Print wallet-sized photos to share with friends and family
  • “Stitch” several images together to create a panorama
  • Create custom slideshows with sound, calendars, and recipe books
To access the download link on rapidshare.de, click on the Free button on the right, near the bottom of the page, wait about 30 seconds, then enter the 3 character code and click on the download button. To uncompress .rar files you can use 7-Zip.

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Free Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 Ebook

Here is a blog post about a freely available ebook that covers advanced features and functions of Dreamweaver 8. This book provides a visual, task-based approach and guides you through the topics, which include the following: step-by-step tutorials and instructions on working with servers, setting up database connections, using SQL, building dynamic pages, how to build dynamic forms and dynamic tables, create a search page for your site, and control access to your site with a user log-in and password. This ebook also works as a reference book, where you can look up the topic you need and start learning about it immediately.

To access the download link on rapidshare.de, click on the Free button on the right, near the bottom of the page, wait about 30 seconds, then enter the 3 character code and click on the download button. To uncompress .rar files you can use 7-Zip.

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Free Training for Microsoft FrontPage XP and 2003

Here are free Microsoft FrontPage training courses for FrontPage XP/2002 and FrontPage 2003, hosted by the Instruction Technology Group at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln as part of their Microsoft eLearning Library. These interactive  training modules were created by Microsoft. Note that to view the main training tutorials, you must be using Windows and Internet Explorer, however, you can use any platform/browser to view the Tutorial How-to Steps for each Lesson.

Core Training for Microsoft FrontPage 2002 / XP


Core Training for Microsoft FrontPage 2003


Beginners Dreamweaver and Fireworks Tutorials

DW-FW-Beginners.com hosts a series of tutorials excerpted from two Dreamweaver and Fireworks books which will get you started using Dreamweaer and Fireworks.. These include 2 tutorials on integrating Dreamweaver and Fireworks.

Beginners Dreamweaver and Fireworks Tutorials


Dreamweaver Tutorials

Tutorial #1 Planning your first web site
Covers the fundamental questions that everyone must consider when developing their first web site. Includes a handy planning guide for focusing on how your site should be structured to reach your intended audience. This is the essential first step that everyone should use before they begin building any web site.

Tutorial #2 Creating a site structure
This tutorial, excerpted from Module 2, explores how an initial site plan is translated into a rock-solid site structure using Dreamweaver's Site window. Important tips about the steps you'll need to use before you ever build your first web page are covered in this informative lesson.

Tutorial #3 The Printed Word—Working with Text
From Module 5, this tutorial leads you through the process of inserting and formatting text in an HTML document. Considerations you need to keep in mind when working with text, why HTML limits the types of fonts you can use, and how text can be formatted for an improved viewer experience are just a few of the topics covered in this informative lesson.

Tutorial #4 Designing with Dreamweaver Templates
Excerpted from Module 9, this quick tutorial steps you through the process of designing a template and defining editable regions—allowing you to create a consistent look for your site that can be repeated over and over again.

Tutorial #5 Applying a Simple Swap Image Behavior
Ever want to pull off one of those neat little tricks that allow a link to display an image in another part of a page? It' s easy with Dreamweaver behaviors as this quick tutorial will show.


Fireworks Tutorials

Tutorial #1 Creating a new Fireworks document
In this introductory tutorial to the Fireworks interface you'll learn how to create a new document, set canvas size and color, and open existing documents. A quick overview of many of the fundamentals you'll need to know to begin working with Fireworks.

Tutorial #2 Using bitmap selection tools

Tutorial #3 Beginner's Guide to Fireworks Animations
In addition to the many ways that Fireworks can be used for editing and optimizing graphics for the web, it is also the premier tool for creating animated GIFs. Learn the basics of how animations are created using frame-by-frame techniques as well as some of the ways that creating animations can be automated.

Tutorial #4 Creating a Transparency Mask
One of the most requested techniques at the Fireworks newsgroup. Masking allows you to to create an effect that fades an image from opaque to transparent. Easy and fun!

Tutorial # 5 Disjoint Rollovers
With the tools provided by Fireworks you can create some fabulous effects through the magic of disjoint rollovers. Learn how to create an effect where rolling over one object on the page causes another object to appear.


Integrating Dreamweaver and Fireworks

Beginner's Guide to Pop-Up Menus
Pop-up menus are all the rage, and a great new feature found in Fireworks 4. But if they're so wonderful, why do so many people have problems with them? Learn the essential steps you need to take to insure that your pop-ups work every time—from properly structuring your site to creating, exporting, and employing these great site navigation objects.

Creating Seamless Backgrounds
Page and table backgrounds are a great way to add visual interest to a web page, but how to create the background so that it tiles seamlessly? This tutorial leads you through the process of creating seamless backgrounds for a horizontal graphic in Fireworks and demostrates how the background can be employed in Dreamweaver.


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