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June 2, 2006

2 Free PowerPoint 2003 Workshop Training Tutorials

Here are 2 workshop training tutorials for learning how to use basic and intermediate features of PowerPoint 2003. These are in pdf format and are provided by the University of Nevada.

2 Free PowerPoint 2003 Workshop Training Tutorials

Level 1 Classes: beginning topics designed to develop basic application skills.  
Level 2 Classes: intermediate topics that assume users have some working knowledge and experience with the application.

Level 1

Creating Professional Presentations Training Manual

PowerPoint is more than just putting text on the screen.  There are guidelines and tools to help make your presentation visually attractive, professional, informative, and interesting.  Streamline your work and end up with fabulous presentations!

Topics:
  » Planning the Presentation
  » Creating the Presentation and Content
  » Formatting
  » Adding Graphics
  » Controlling the presentation

Level 2

Multimedia in PowerPoint Training Manual

If you’ve conquered the text and clip art, now it’s time for the next step.  Learn how to add and control animation, include video and sound, and automate the presentation playback.  If you include multimedia in your presentation, the Pack and Go Wizard is the best way to transport it to new locations for showing.

Topics:
  » Animation
  » Adding video and sound files
  » Automating your presentation
  » Pack and Go
  » Sample File


Popularity: 23% [?]


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    Web Publishing and HTML Coding Tutorials

    The Web Publishing Series and HTML Coding  Tutorials from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire provide you a great collection of free training guides to help you understand how to create and develop web pages and web sites.


    Overview of Web Publishing

    HTML Coding Tutorials

    Basics

    Techniques for Creating Accessible Web Pages


    Formatting

    Working with Links

    Working with Lists


    Working with Color

    Working with Tables

     Working with Images
    Working with Forms

    Working with Image Maps

    HTML Code Summaries

    These summaries provide a quick reference for the HTML codes needed to create a specific feature. All the pages include the ‘on’ and ‘off’ tags, an explanation of what the code does and why, and usually a sample of how the code should be typed in.


    Popularity: 20% [?]


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    Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Tutorials

    These FrontPage 2003 Tutorials from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire offer a great collection of free training modules that will develop attractive, compelling web pages and web sites without learning a lot of the details of HTML coding.

    Microsoft FrontPage 2003 Tutorials


    FrontPage Environment

    FrontPage Basics

    FrontPage Lists

    FrontPage Links

    FrontPage Images

    FrontPage Colors

    FrontPage Forms

    FrontPage Tables

    FrontPage Image Maps

    Maintaining a Web Site

    FrontPage Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

    FrontPage Frames

    FrontPage Managing Your Web

    Inserting Clip Art

    Popularity: 23% [?]


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    June 5, 2006

    2 Office 2003 Tutorials: Fundamentals and Drawing Tools

    Here are 2 workshop training tutorials, one for learning Office 2003 basic tasks and features, such as the Task Panes, Tool Bars, and File Management, and the other for learning how to use the Drawing Tools in Office 2003. These are in pdf format and provided by the University of Nevada.


    Microsoft Office 2003 General Skills

    Level 1 Classes: beginning topics designed to develop basic application skills.  
    Level 2 Classes: intermediate topics that assume users have some working knowledge and experience with the application.


    Level 1

    Office 2003 Foundations Workshop Guide

    The applications included in the Office 2003 package all share some common elements, and knowing how to use these tools helps in using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access all a little more efficiently.  Some of the 2003 tools and environment aspects are quite different than in previous versions.  This workshop will help you conquer the new features whether you are new to Office, or just new to the 2003 Suite. 

    Topics:           
    » 
    Using Task Panes
    »  Customizing Tool Bars
    »  Smart Tags
    »  File Management
    »  How the applications work together
    »  Sample File 1
    »  Sample File 2
    »  Sample File 3

    Level 2

    Drawing Tools Workshop Guide

    The applications in the Office 2003 package share common drawing tools, so the drawing skills learned in one are applicable to the others.  Whether you need to make a visual aid, diagram, map, or are just feeling in a creative mood, the drawing tools are a quick and easy way to create the graphics you need Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

    Topics:           |
    » Getting the Drawing Tools
    » Creating Objects
    » Inserting Objects
    » Moving and Resizing
    » Formatting
    » The Draw Menu
    » Creating DiagramsDate and Time
    » Sample File


    Popularity: 22% [?]


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    Free Live Online and Recorded Seminars from Adobe

    Adobe offers many free Live Online Seminars and Recorded Seminars on its website for many of their and Macromedia’s software applications. Free registration is required to access these online seminars.


    Popular Recorded Adobe eSeminars

    A Closer Look at the Best Practices of CSS
    Take a closer look at the best practices for layout and styling of web page content with cascading style sheets. Learn how to work with cascading style sheets more efficiently within Dreamweaver 8 using the new CSS layout visualization tools, the unified CSS panel, and support for CSS media types.

    Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional
    Find out about advanced print features, including Output Preview, transparency flattening, and enhanced preflighting capabilities. See the powerful comment and review features, PDF correction tools, and support for PDF/X and the Job Definition Format (JDF) standards.

    Adobe Illustrator CS2
    Learn more about transparency, the Illustrator text engine, powerful new user interface features (Control palette and Workspaces), enhanced integration with Adobe Photoshop and improved spot color support.

    Adobe InDesign CS2
    Find out about new Adobe Adobe InDesign CS2 features such as: powerful new text formatting, enhanced interoperability with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe PDF files, object styles, and backwards compatibility with Adobe InDesign CS.

    Building Strong and Flexible InDesign Documents
    Learn how to use Adobe InDesign to efficiently set up proper page layouts and enhance your workflow capabilities. See tips and tricks for master pages and paragraph, character, and object styles that are guaranteed to open your eyes and improve your productivity.

    Designing Smarter with CS2
    Learn how to use the integrated tools of Adobe Creative Suite 2. This eseminar shows you how to leverage the most exciting pieces of the Suite to create a handsome newsletter. You’’ll learn the 3D effects and image mapping capabilities of Adobe Illustrator, along with techniques for getting the most of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.

    Welcome to Adobe Creative Suite 2
    Get to know the integrated tools of the Adobe Creative Suite 2: Adobe InDesign CS2, Adobe Illustrator CS2, Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional, and Adobe Photoshop CS2, as well as the innovative Adobe Bridge, Version Cue CS2 file management and Adobe Stock Photos.


    Popular Live Online Adobe eSeminars

    Breeze Capabilities and Benefits Online Live Seminar Series
    Learn how Macromedia Breeze enables you to quickly combine existing learning assets with real-time interactivity for collaborative communication, teaching and learning experiences.

    Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 live eSeminar Series
    Free online live eSeminars on FrameMaker 7.2

    Studio 8 eSeminar Series
    In these seminars, you will receive an overview on how to achieve maximum efficiency across Studio 8 products Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks and more.

    Adding 3D Data to Your PDF Documents with Acrobat 3D
    A free online live eSeminar on enhancing communication and securely sharing 3D designs for CAD and project data.

    Mobile and Devices eSeminar Series
    A free Flash Lite eSeminar for Mobile and Devices. Learn from Industry experts about this latest technology.

    Dreamweaver Expert Series
    Join these live, one-hour online seminars to hear from Adobe/Macromedia’s Dreamweaver experts.

    Flash Expert Series
    Join these live, one-hour online seminars to hear from our Adobe/Macromedia’s Flash experts.

    Adobe Flex 2 live eSeminar Series
    In this free online live eSeminar learn what’s new in our next generation of the Flex product line.

    Captivate eSeminar Series
    Learn how Captivate (formerly RoboDemo) can easily create interactive simulations and software demonstrations.

    Popularity: 23% [?]


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    June 6, 2006

    Max Design’s CSS Tutorials and Presentations

    Max Design offers several excellent CSS resources and tutorials for web designers and web developers. Their tutorials, articles and presentations cover CSS, accessiblity and web standards. Topics include CSS page layout tutorials, CSS layout samples, liquid layouts, styling lists, definition lists, centering with CSS, source order, skip links, web standards checklists

    Max Design’s CSS Tutorials and Presentations


    Listutorial: Tutorials on CSS based Lists
    Step by step tutorials on using CSS to create background image lists, rollover lists, nested lists and horizontal lists.

    Floatutorial: Tutorials on CSS Floats
    Step by step tutorials on using CSS to create floating images, images with captions, next and back buttons, drop caps, inline lists and more.

    Selectutorial: CSS Selectors
    The structure of rules, the document tree, types of selectors and their uses. Plus a step by step tutorial using selectors to build a 3-column layout.

    Listamatic: One List Many Options
    Take a simple list and use CSS to create radically different list options.

    Listamatic2: Nested List Options 
    Select from one of the many samples of Nested Lists or submit a list of your own.

    Simple, accessible external links
    Is there a way to add descriptive text to all external links and then replace this text with a small icon for CSS supporting browsers?

    Page Source Order & Accessibility
    Presentation at OzeWAI 2005 – Is source order important for screen reader users?

    Replicating a Tree table
    Demonstrates how to replicate a graphic table tree using HTML.

    Liquid layouts using CSS – the joy, the pain, the tears
    A presentation on liquid layouts for Web Essentials 05.

    Simple, accessible “more” links
    “More” links are not very informative for screen reader users – but CSS can be used to solve the problem.

    Open Publish – From tables to full CSS
    Slides from Open Publish workshop.

    Accessible Data Tables
    An article that explains how the accessibility of data tables can be improved.

    Creating a graph using percentage background images
    A quick graph example using a list and percentage background images.

    Building a page template – a step by step tutorial
    A quick step-by-step demonstration of how the Web Essentials template was built using CSS. A presentation to students of Blue Mountains College of TAFE.

    A basic Web Standards workshop
    Notes from a step by step workshop covering standards, XHTML, semantic markup, accessibility, CSS, floats and bugs.

    Ten questions for… Series 3

    Developing sites for users with cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties
    Practical suggestions on how to develop websites that are inclusive for people with cognitive impairments and learning difficulties.

    An Accessibility Frontier: Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties
    Some ideas on how websites might more effectively meet the needs of people with cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties. From a paper presented at OzeWAI2004.

    Remote control CSS
    Are styled lists better than Flash or Javascript for menu’s?

    A quick and dirty introduction to accessibility
    Presentation to the Web Standards Group, Melbourne

    Changing page appearance using body id
    How can you change the appearance of individual pages without changing the code structure on each page?

    Ten questions for… Series 2

    A web standards checklist
    A guide that can be used to show the breadth of web standards or as a handy tool for developers during the production phase of websites.

    Ten questions for… Series 1

    The benefits of Web Standards to your visitors, your clients and you!
    Presentation to the Web Standards Group, Macromedia User Group and Cold Fusion User Group – MXDU2004: Day Zero.

    Definition lists – misused or misunderstood?
    What are definition lists? When are they appropriate? And how to style them to look like tables, image galleries, calendar of events and more.

    Colored boxes – one method of building full CSS layouts
    How do you go about building a full CSS layout? Is there an overall method that can be used for any layout?

    Floating items inside containers
    Simple explanation of how floats work inside a container.

    Liquid layouts – the easy way
    Explains one method of achieving a successful liquid layout as well as providing basic definitions of liquid, fixed-width and em-driven layouts.

    Nemesis: Two columns with color
    How do you make a two column CSS layout with color in either column that spreads to the full height of the page?

    Selectutorial - CSS selectors
    Find out about selectors including the structure of rules, the document tree and types of selectors. Also a step-by-step tutorial showing selectors in action.

    CSS Centering – fun for all!
    How do you center a container on a page using CSS?

    Float like a butterfly
    A presentation on the basics of the float property, for Sydney Web Standards Group meeting.

    Body padding and margin
    A simple explanation of the ways that browsers render body margin and padding.

    List inheritance and Descendant Selectors
    This is a simple step-by-step demonstration to show how inheritance affects nested list items.

    Taming the “Taming List” model
    I have been using the “Taming List” model for navigation lists for a while, but have noticed some rendering inconsistencies.

    Headings as images – the Lindsay method
    So, you want to use images for your headings? It gives you greater control over typefaces, positioning and style.

    Ideal line length for content
    I’d like to design a site that uses optimal line lengths. I also want the line length to stay within the optimal range no matter what default font size the user has set in their browser. Is it possible?

    CSS page layouts
    Here is a wide range of sample CSS page layouts – no tables. Everything from single column centred layouts to the dreaded three column monsters.

    Popularity: 20% [?]


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    Microsoft Office Quick Reference Guides

    Rhodes State College offers the following free Quick Reference Guides for all of the Microsoft Office applications, in pdf format. These are excellent for learning the details of many of the features of these software programs.

    Microsoft Office Quick Reference Guides


    Word: | 1997 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 |

    Excel: | 1997 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 |

    Outlook: | 1997 | 2000 | 2002 | 2004 |

    PowerPoint: | 1997 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 |

    Access: | 1997 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003 |

    Project: | 2000 | 2002 |

    Visio: | 2002 |

    FrontPage: | 2000 | 2002 |

    Windows: | 1995 | 1998 | 2000 | ME | NT | XP |

    Popularity: 28% [?]


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    Quick Reference Guides for Photoshop, Flash, Firework, Dreamweaver, HTML

    Rhodes State College offers the following free Quick Reference Guides for Photoshop, Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and HTML (in pdf format). These are excellent for learning the details and features of these important web development software applications.

    Quick Reference Guides for Photoshop, Flash, Firework, Dreamweaver, and HTML


    Flash: | 5 | MX |

    Fireworks: | 4 | MX |

    Dreamweaver: | 4 | MX |

    Photoshop: | 6 | 7 |

    HTML: | 4 |


    Popularity: 21% [?]


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    June 7, 2006

    Using CSS in Dreamweaver

    Adobe offers many good tutorials and articles helping you get the most out of Dreamweaver. Here are their tutorials for using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) in Dreamweaver. There are tutorials here for the current version, Dreamweaver 8, and also for Dreamweaver MX.2004.

    Using CSS in Dreamweaver
    CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004

    Working with CSS Background Images

    Part 1: An Overview
    Part 2: Precisely Positioning Images
    Part 3: Creating Background Images with a Drop Shadow
    Part 4: Using Images to Fake the Appearance of Columns


    Killer Tips for CSS in Dreamweaver
    Get some of the top CSS tips from Joe Lowery and Angela Buraglia.

    Sharing Dreamweaver Code Snippets Manually and Through Snippet Extensions
    Why let others reinvent the code wheel when you can package your code as a Dreamweaver snippet?

    Introduction to Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR)
    Don’t let your typography suffer. Let it sIFR.

    Introduction to CSS Positioning in Dreamweaver MX 2004
    Learn how to use absolute, relative, and static positioning to lay out your pages with CSS.

    Dissecting the Halo Template File
    Modify and customize the prebuilt Halo page design that ships with Dreamweaver MX 2004.

    Gradually Implementing CSS in Your Site
    Greg Rewis shows you how to turn your inline HTML styles into CSS using Dreamweaver MX 2004.

    An Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver MX 2004
    Learn to use the new Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) features in Dreamweaver MX 2004.

    From Screen to Print: Creating a Print CSS
    Make your web pages printable by using CSS in Dreamweaver.

    Discovering the Ready-to-Go CSS-P Layouts in Dreamweaver MX 2004
    Get familiar with the sample CSS layouts that ship with Dreamweaver.

    On Demand Seminar: Advanced Support for CSS
    Get an overview of the new CSS features in Dreamweaver 8 (Requires membership log in).

    Take Advantage of the Sample CSS Styles in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
    Build on the ready page designs that ship with Dreamweaver MX 2004.


    CSS in Dreamweaver MX

    Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Best Practices in Dreamweaver MX
    Dreamweaver MX is packed with new CSS features. Rachel Andrew tells how to use CSS to your advantage.

    CSS: Styling Forms and Form Elements
    Give your forms a unique look and feel with CSS. The CSS shark, Mako explains it all.

    Tableless Layouts with Dreamweaver MX
    Tired of using nested tables to design your pages? Modernize your layout by using CSS.

    Macromedia Dreamweaver MX: Visual QuickStart Guide
    Learn how to put style sheets to best use with this book excerpt.


    CSS Basics

    Overview of CSS in Dreamweaver 8
    Get familiar with all the new CSS features, tools, workflows and user interface improvements.


    Introduction to Designing with CSS (Updated for Dreamweaver 8)

    Part 1: Understanding CSS Design Concepts
    Part 2: Defining Style Properties and Working with Floats
    Part 3: Creating Your First Design Without Tables
    Part 4: Creating a Two-Column Layout
    Part 5: Defining Columns and Vertical List Navigation
    Part 6: Deciding Whether to Float or Position Columns


    Working with CSS Background Images

    Part 1: An Overview
    Part 2: Precisely Positioning Images
    Part 3: Creating Background Images with a Drop Shadow
    Part 4: Using Images to Fake the Appearance of Columns


    Styled Headings for Authors and Users
    Make sure document headings are consistent across Contribute documents and users with CSS.

    Simple Styling with CSS
    Pages don’t have to look simple to load quickly. Combine speed and beauty with CSS.


    General Overviews

    Why Use CSS?
    Learn the business and technical reasons why you should be using CSS to lay out your sites.

    Interview with Hakon Lie: The Creation of CSS
    Read how CSS inventor Hakon Lie made style sheets a web standard.

    What is the W3C and Why Do We Care?
    Learn why the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is all knowing and how you should be aware of web standards.


    Popularity: 20% [?]


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    Sofware Help Guides for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

    Here are several well written and illustrated software Help Guides for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, along with 2 general guides for Microsoft Office. Covering fundamental, intermediate, and advanced functions and features of these Office applications, these help guides are in pdf format and are from 2 to 10 pages in length. They are provided at no cost by the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

    Sofware Help Guides for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint


    Microsoft Word

    Basics of Microsoft Word
    Proficient with Microsoft Word
    Expert of Microsoft Word
    Desktop Publishing with Word
    Tables of Microsoft Word
    Mail Merge with Microsoft Word
    Keyboard Shortcuts for Word


    Microsoft Excel

    Basics of Microsoft Excel
    Proficient with Microsoft Excel
    Expert of Microsoft Excel
    Graphs of Microsoft Excel
    Database Functions of Microsoft Excel
    Create Custom Cell Formats


    Microsoft PowerPoint

    Basics of Microsoft PowerPoint
    Proficient with Microsoft PowerPoint
    Expert of Microsoft PowerPoint


    Microsoft Office

    Basics of Microsoft Office
    Graphics in Microsoft Office

    Popularity: 21% [?]


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