Free! - mini review and competition of the Content Management Bible

From the back cover;

The leading reference on content management just got better...
How do you keep ahead of the onslaught of information? How do you produce multiple Web sites plus other publications from one pool of content? Can you be confident your content delivers maximum value to your organization? You'll find out in this landmark volume, now completely updated to cover the newest concepts and technologies in this fast-growing field. Responding to your requests and suggestions, Bob Boike has added jumpstarts, expanded explanations, real world examples from leading CM professionals, a comprehensive CM technology taxonomy, and so much more. It's the last word on content management.

Inside you'll find complete coverage of content management concepts and methodology

• Get full support for your system by serving your organization's highest goals
• Analyze and overcome the toughest information management issues in your organization
• Serve the most important people the most important information in the form they most want
• Run professional and efficient CM projects
• Make smart choices when choosing CM hardware and software
• Use or create the most effective CM and XML technologies
• Automate and systematize content while enhancing the relationship between author and audience
• Create content repositories where the knowledge of your contributors is made accessible through metadata
• Produce a wide range of targeted Web sites, PDA applications, print materials, and other custom publications from the same information base.
  

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Free! Mini review - Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS

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As the Web has evolved, tools and methods for creating Web pages have also changed and matured. This book teaches you to create Web sites using a combination of new and mature technologies and shows you the best practices that have emerged for using these technologies.

In these pages you will learn to build Web sites with traditional HTML and its successor XHTML. You will see how CSS can be used to make your Web pages more attractive by controlling the presentation and formatting of pages, and how to use JavaScript to enhance the power of your pages. Along the way you will learn how to make your pages work in several generations of Web browsers, including new Web-enabled devices such as mobile phones. You'll also learn techniques that make your site more usable and accessible.

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Free! Mini review - New Masters of Flash volume 3

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Macromedia Flash is the industry standard design tool, providing rich opportunities for creative professionals in many areas of digital design and web development. With the release of the latest version of this exciting product, Flash MX 2004, Macromedia has yet again upped the standard for creating immersive digital experiences. With Flash, the possibilities for artistic expression and overcoming technical challenges are limited only by your imagination.

New Masters of Flash is both a global showcase and a practical tutorial book aimed at professional and aspiring designers who are looking for novel inspirations and imaginative techniques. Following the phenomenal success of the world's most awe-inspiring innovators - you'll see the very finest examples of advanced interaction design, animation techniques, experimental digital art, graphic design, application development, e-learning, and commercial web design.

This book is a celebration of people and ideas - these New Masters are the legendary  artists and designers who are continually expanding the horizons of motion graphics and interactive design. They share their influences, ideas, and artistic objectives in a series of individual essays that offer unique insights into the creative professional's life and workflow. They take the reader through step-by-step tutorials and case studies explaining in detail how to re-create their interfaces, applications, effects, and experiments in Macromedia Flash MX 2004.

On the CD:

• Tutorial source files and additional examples
• Interviews with the authors
• Bonus goodies: Ween music video sampler, demo software, and lots more!

 

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Advertorial; New Web Content Management Options for Web Designers and Developers

Web developers, designers, and their organizations frequently find themselves “stuck in the middle” when it comes to finding the right solution for effectively building and deploying dynamic Web sites and creating, managing and publishing online content, digital documents and other Web assets.

 

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Advertorial; Web Publishing Evolves for Web Designers, Developers, and Beyond

The Web is today’s de facto publishing medium, regardless of whether you’re talking about Web content and images, Microsoft Office documents, PDFs, multimedia files or other information assets. This fact has me thinking back pre-Internet, to the widespread adoption of desktop publishing tools, and the parallels I’m witnessing today. Read More

Free! - mini review of Flash MX 2004 for Rich Internet Applications

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With the release of Macromedia Flash MX 2004, the promise of a rich, single-interface application to control and display data is a reality. No longer do you have to build multiple pages, but instead you can give your users access to dynamically generated data in a highly interactive and compelling experience. It's time to stop building individual pages and start building applications.

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Developing a Web Site with the Ektron CMS400.NET Content Management Solution and Dreamweaver Extension

Developing a Web Site with the Ektron CMS400.NET Content Management Solution and Dreamweaver Extension

Ektron's line of Web authoring tools and Web content management solutions have evolved over the years becoming the ideal choice for organizations who want their everyday business users to manage content on their Web site.  Ektron continues to rise to the demands of the marketplace by making Web content management more powerful and robust, yet keeping the process easy-to-use.

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Free!- Mini review of Foundation PHP5 for Flash

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• Use Flash and PHP to communicate with external data sources, such as RSS feeds and databases
• Learn the fundamentals of PHP 5, the latest version of the Web's most popular server-side technology
• Understand database design principles
• Install, configure and troubleshoot a complete PHP, MYSQL and Apache setup
• Use good, secure PHP and Flash programming practices

 

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Free! - mini review of The Hidden Power of Flash Components

Flash Components: The Key to the good stuff
Anyone who wants to be a Flash master should learn to utilize components. You can achieve amazing effects with the many Flash components out there without being a programmer.  The Hidden Power of Flash Components shows you how to do it.

The enclosed CD is loaded with a library of powerful components that will help you to become familiar with Flash Components. The book is suited for all levels of users as it demonstrates how to build your own components to use and share with other developers by using step by step examples.

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Free! - Mini review of Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004

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This book won't teach you how to use the products included in Studio MX 2004 independently. It will teach you how to integrate them efficiently to create a data-driven dynamic site. Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004 goes beyond the "how" to explain "why" you perform certain steps so you can apply them to integrating Studio MX 2004 on your own projects.

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Free! mini-review of XSLT 2.0 web development

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Leverage the incredible power of XSLT 2.0 to create sites that are easy to build, maintain, and extend!

This book teaches you exactly how to build state-of-the-art web sites with XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0. XML developer and web designer Dmitry Kirsanov drills down to real development challenges and specific tools and techniques for solving them.

You’ll learn from a hands-on project that gives you insights you just won’t find anywhere else. Kirsanov covers the entire project lifecycle: schema creation, validation, transformation, testing, and maintenance… offering outstanding code and markup examples every step of the way.

• Explore new XSLT 2.0/XPath 2.0 standards from a web developer’s point of view
• Develop rock-solid, high-performance domain-specific schemas
• Create and convert source documents for effective XML processing
• Set up XSLT transformations to automatically generate HTML, graphics, and other site components
• Build your dynamic web site on the solid foundation of the Cocoon framework
• Use Schematron to validate XML and streamline processing
• Study complete printed and downloadable page sources, stylesheets, and schemas

XSLT 2.0 Web Development is an indispensable resource for…

• Professional web developers
• Project managers who want to streamline site development and maintenance
• Graphic designers who need more flexible ways to present structured information
• Content management specialists using XML documentation/publishing systems

Fully tested and implemented examples are available at authors.phptr.com/kirsanov andwww.kirsanov.com/xsltwd

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Free! - Mini review of Beyond Dreamweaver

About the book
With Joseph Lowery's Beyond Dreamweaver, you combine general principles with specific Dreamweaver methods and strategies. Not only will you learn how to accomplish specific tasks, you'll discover how to enhance your
productivity by:

• Integrating Dreamweaver and your content management systems
• Employing techniques for Section 508 compliance
• Coding SMIL multimedia presentations within Dreamweaver
• Incorporating XML content into Dreamweaver templates
• Dynamically automating static web page creation
• Building sequential navigation
• Communicating efficiently with Flash[tm], Fireworks[tm], and Dreamweaver
• Unearthing and applying Dreamweaver's extensibility layer

Joseph Lowery's Beyond Dreamweaver, your guide to overcoming productivity challenges and pushing your designs even further! 

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