E-magazines contain the best web development and design articles, inspiring graphics, interviews from the world's leading experts, the latest news, events and much more.
The e-Magazines are delivered in a PDF format and often contain embedded movies. It can be viewed with the free version of Adobe Acrobat reader and can also be printed.
DMXzone's e-Magazine is not a boring PDF but an interactive e-Magazine with video, Flash and other quality content.
Useful as a book but more amusing like a movie and full of interesting content, the new DMXzone Magazine makes web development fun.
To celebrate this new service we are giving the premier edition away for free!
Read MoreDMXzone exists 5 years! To celebrate this momentous event we’ve made this special edition of the e-Magazine.
We have gathered the best of our e-magazines and put them in this special edition. From Photoshop and Flash to scripting, we collected the best articles and combined them in one package.
We also included the interviews of major guru’s like Craig Swann, Rob Chiu and Sas Jacobs.
And last but not least we’ve drawn up the highlights of 5 years at DMXzone and webdevelopment in general. From the birth of DMXzone’s predecessor UDzone to the latest hypes in web development, we took a good look on the past five years and we’ve placed the most momentous events.
We hope you enjoy reading this special edition!
Read MoreThis edition focuses on scripting and databases. Learn to master databases and programming so you can make those great websites and applications you always wanted.
But first things first; we start of by concluding our “create a Flash MP3 player” and “an online radio station” articles with a final second part so you can entertain your audience with great music or sound effects.
So let's start programming, we start with an article about Adding Dynamic Data with PHP and MySQL to your site. This article shows how to add database connectivity. That's not all. We'll build a website with Restrictive Access (part one and two) and we'll show how to create a MySQL search function.
Next to a treasure of tutorials and information we have a great interview with DMXzone writer and Flash Guru Sas Jacobs.
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 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 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 MoreThis month two popular topics will be covered: we’ll show you how to make amazing applications in PHP and we teach you the essentials about Fireworks and Masking.
We begin with teaching you how to create a simple e-mail form in PHP. Why? The answer is easy, because you want your site's visitors to be able to contact you, but you don’t want to be bothered with endless spam messages. After that we’ll show you how to create a simple calendar in PHP. This calendar uses a number of useful programming techniques, which can be utilised in many other areas as well. The next tutorial teaches you how to build a dynamically generated Photo gallery using PHP. The necessary information such as searchable keywords are stored in a database. In the final PHP article we’ll be taking a look at creating a log in system using PHP Server Behaviours. Our system will provide an admin as well as the log in system itself.
Then it’s time for Fireworks to kick in. This time we’ll start with showing you how to use masks. They make it easy to cut out or hide away parts of your work, without having to destroy the original image. The second Fireworks article teaches you to simulate a mask without the drawbacks associated with masks.
Next to a treasure of tutorials and information we have a great interview with design guru Danny Franzreb.
Read MoreIn these cold winter months we looked around for what's hot in the world of the web developer and we lined up the most popular topics for this month’s edition.
We’ll show you how to create menus for your websites and applications. We start of with an article on how to create a simple DHTML Flyout menu. Then we move on to drop down menus with standards where we show you how to create efficient code using the DOM and CSS.
After that we’ll move on to Flash and show you how to create a menu bar in Flash. And we’ll take you through the gentle art of creating popup menus in Flash. We’ll not only look at how you can build static menus for your common tasks, but how to build the menu dynamically from an XML document. Both articles use the components in Flash to provide a quick and easy way to add your navigation.
Our second theme gets you started with ColdFusion. First we explain how to install ColdFusion and give you advice on basic testing by creating a sample page with basic tags and functions. After that we’re going to show you how to setup up a database for and how to query that database to display data.
Next to a treasure of tutorials and information we have a great interview with interactive motion Guru Craig Swann.
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 MoreThis edition contains all the technologies that you need for dynamic design sites and applications. Our writers show you how to use the best technologies behind the sites and applications you always wanted to make. We use AJAX, Flash, Flash Lite, design and accessibility to create applications that will set the standard in future websites.
First we used the latest AJAX technologies to create a contacts application.
After that it’s time to move on to Flash Lite, where we introduce you to Flash technology for mobile’s and pda’s. We’ll create a simple standalone application that shows today’s date as well as the number of days until Christmas.
Then it’s time to develop Flash database interaction using Dreamweaver by creating a an update mechanism for an authentication application.
We finish up with two articles about design and accessibility. We’ll show you how to use CSS to create accessible and well designed sites.
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 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.
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