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March 2007 Issue of the e-Magazine Released
(February 28, 2007)
Presentations, Portfolio’s and Dynamic Data
We got a lot of diverse content packed in this e-Magazine, whether you are a designer, a coder or a combination of both, this edition will do its best to serve you!
Linda Goin begins with a new series about how to develop a creative and diverse portfolio that exemplifies your skills and knowledge. After that...
Photoshop CS2: Taking the Photoshop Express
(February 14, 2007)
Whether you have boarded the Photoshop train already or not, without guidance you’ll probably miss a lot. With this e-Book, award winning writer Linda Goin, takes you on the Photoshop train to show you how to create the best the software has to offer.
She uses hands-on tutorials that are not only informative but also incredibly fun to follow due to Linda’s unique writing style and creative examples.
Photoshop CS2: Take the Photoshop Express e-Book
The book is divided into four major Parts. In the first part you jump aboard the Photoshop Express. This train takes you into the world of Photoshop CS2 to show you how to alter reality. After that you move on and learn more about the common Photoshop CS2 tools. In the next part the scenery around the Photoshop Express changes with the use of fantastic filters! Finally the Photoshop Express reaches his destination, time to put your theory in practice. Happy Photoshopping!
February 2007 Issue of the E-Magazine Released
(February 1, 2007)
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.
January 2007
(January 4, 2007)
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.
December 2006 Issue
(December 7, 2006)
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.
