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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are a powerful way to enrich the presentation of HTML-based web pages, allowing web authors to give their pages a more sophisticated look and more structure. CSS's compact file size helps web pages load quickly, and by allowing changes made in one place to be applied across the entire document, CSS can save hours of tedious changing and updating. But to leverage the full power of CSS, web authors first have to sift through CSS theory to find practical solutions that...

The Book Liberation Manifesto is an exploration of publishing outside of current corporate constraints and beyond the confines of book piracy. We believe that knowledge should be in free circulation to benefit humankind, which means an equitable and vibrant economy to support publishing, instead of the prevailing capitalist hand-me-down system of Sisyphean economic sustainability. Readers and books have been forced into pirate libraries, while sales channels have been monopolised by the big Inte...

This new, cross-platform edition of The Illustrator 7 Wow! Book includes eye-catching and time-saving techniques and tips for beginning through advanced users of Adobe Illustrator 7. Illustrator 7's basic tools and functions are explored, professional production techniques are demonstrated by using real-life "step-by-step" examples and full-page gallery samples from over 70 of the nation's leading Illustrator artists and designers. The content covers the latest features and techniques in Illustr...

Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio Interface Design has fifteen tutorials on creating a wide-range of interfaces with Director 8.5 and Shockwave that can be modified for use for any output: web, games, basic multimedia, and more. All of this is wrapped up with foundational information for those needing to refine their Director skills. The companion CD gives the access to all the files necessary for the completion of the chapter tutorials and each of the 15 interface examples. The CD also includes tri...

This menu of titles is ideal for any course that includes graphic arts software and computer design software as part of the curriculum. Courses can be found in Office Information Systems, Computer Science, and Fine Arts Departments, as well as Continuing Education, Journalism, and Printing and Lithography.Written by educators, for educators, the Against the Clock series is the complete solution for courses in Graphic Multimedia or Web Design Software. The hands-on, project-based texts are packag...

In this full-color book, author Robin Williams and illustrator John Tollett celebrate the new wave of type design known as "grunge" typography. The book consists of famous and not-so-famous quotes about type and design set in a range of grunge fonts, using rule-breaking layouts. The illustrations, created in Fractal Design Painter, complement the text. Includes a companion disk containing 22 freeware and shareware grunge fonts (Type 1), several of which were newly created for this book."Grunge"...

Acrobat 5 Hands-On Training is a step-by-step, tutorial-based book that teaches the reader not only how to create PDFs and how Acrobat can improve workplace efficiency, but also how to enhance those PDFs for optimal sharing and viewing. The book begins by introducing the reader to the interface of both Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, explaining the differences between the two applications and how each is used. From there, each chapter covers a different feature of Acrobat with special topics, such a...

Ever since Photoshop version 2.5, The Photoshop Wow! Book has enlightened and inspired graphic designers, illustrators, and photographers around the globe. This newest edition delivers the familiar award-winning mix of explanations and step-by-step tutorials for creating both commercial and fine-art images, with a DVD-ROM full of tutorial files and other goodies. Tips and beautiful galleries distinguish this book as the most inspiring Photoshop resource around. Designed for easy reference, The P...