More than 3 years ago, DMXzone started with its own e-Magazine to inspire users. As we strive for quality content we are taking a break to find a new source for inspiring articles*. We’ve decided to make this edition available for everyone. Read on to discover the power of our extensions.
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The New Year begins with a fresh start, time to start what many of you always wanted to do; setup your own WordPress Blog. We have interview Adobe's Bryan O'Neil Hughes, continue our video series on how to create a Customer Ticket System, teach you the essentials of typography and show you how to create amazing Inline Layer Popups.
Improve your graphical user interfaces with cool controls using jQuery, Ajax and ASP.NET. Get inspired by Hollywood based photographer Brian McCarty who has a passion for toys and photography to the point of hypothermia.
Another month, another mix. We talk with Scott Fegette about what's new in Dreamweaver CS4. We teach you how to use webservices in Flash, create a login form with server side technologies and how to use datasets in Photoshop.
This edition teaches you how to build extraordinary components. We show you how to create cascading dropdowns, a rating system, a selector utility, a color picker control and a Silverlight Mediaplayer. Learn how to use the latest technologies including Ajax, the Yahoo Interface Library, ASP.NET and Silverlight.
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Learn all about using Cascading Style Sheets to create the best layouts, printer friendly pages and forms.
You want more style? Then get inspired by the wonderful photography of Nikola Borissov. A photographer based in Milan, with a passion for perfection.
We also finish our customer ticket system series and show you how to encrypt passwords and retrieve them.
Get ready to discover the power of ASP.NET, PHP and SQL. Tired of coding? Get inspired by the visuals of the Dandy Dwarves. Last but not least we continue our series about how to build a customer ticket system in Dreamweaver CS3.
This Month's e-Magazine contains candy for everyone!
We show you how to develop a Customer Ticket System with PHP, MySQL and Dreamweaver, how to edit your favorite videos and we have an amazing showcase of an artist who made a great stop motion animation with graffiti.
Get ready to catch up on the latest web technologies with the June edition. In this edition you'll learn how you can provide directions and interactive maps to your visitors, how to get your best web based internet applications on to the desktops of your visitors with Adobe Air and jQuery and you learn the basics of video editing with Adobe Premiere Pro CS3.]]>
Welcome to the May edition, the spring has started so it is time for some fresh new content. This edition focuses on building applications with jQuery, AJAX and other JavaScript technologies. As a bonus we include an ASP.NET project and a Photoshop article that teaches you all about color management when creating iron-on transfers.
This month's edition is all about jQuery, Fireworks and Photography. Learn how to create interactive applications and websites in minutes with this fantastic framework. Add visual impact with Fireworks and jQuery effects. And get inspired by the photography of Dave Nitsche.
This edition holds a great collection of tutorials for both developers and designers. The jQuery and Flex articles are a valuable addition to your development skills while our Fireworks article teaches you how to create those great web 2.0 style buttons. Last but not least, our interview with Marta Dahlig will inspire your design work.
The February e-Magazine is all about user interaction and design and presentation. Learn how to create a search engine friendly Navigation menu, build the cornerstones of your portfolio and master Photoshop.]]>
Happy New Year! 2007 has been the year of dynamic web technologies, Ajax related libraries like jQuery are continuously growing. Adobe released their Creative Suite 3 product line. New operating systems from Microsoft and Apple found their way to the end user. 2008 sounds as least as promising as the web is starting to mature. Read more to see what we have in store in for this edition.
Hohoho! The jolly season is upon us and DMXzone has cooperated with Santa's Elfs to bring you the best out of the web development and design world!
This edition features two cool design articles as well as a great collection of articles about toolkits and webparts. Last but not least we have a cool special for both designers and developers; the best from Ajax Experience in Boston. See the highlights of the Silverlight Session in a cool video, find out what jQuery has to offer you by watching one of the many mini videos and read all about the man behind jQuery; John Resig.
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View the highlights of the Ajax Experience conference in Boston in our live report. Learn how to create an image viewer in jQuery within an hour. Improve your error reports with a cool submission error handling system in JavaScript. And last but not least learn how to draw the human figure and hand in detail.
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Another year flew by like a Jumbo Jet with NASA afterburners. Pop the champagne and hang out the banners, our e-Magazine exists two years! Celebrate with us by enjoying this great collection of tutorials and videos that includes two extra bonus articles.
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It's time to cook with some of the best ingredients on the web. Get to know how to handle one of the most important elements of the modern Internet. Learn Spry, master WordPress, XML, ASP.NET 2.0. and build your own RSS feed. We've got a king-size cherry on top as we've interviewed Bryan O´Neil Hughes the product manager of the Photoshop team. He talks about the latest release of Photoshop, gives some tips and tricks and touches upon future plans like the online version of Photoshop and AIR.
Get ready to chill with cool interface components. Alex July will show you how to incorporate Google Maps into your web pages and how to build an AJAX Accordion Component. Kevin Koch teaches you how to build a Datagrid Control in .NET, we have an interview with Danielle Beaumont, the product manager of Fireworks CS3 and Sas Jacobs shows you how to create drop down boxes with AJAX. Dan Wellman teaches you how to create a search box for your website.
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Some things you'll never forget, that great tune, that awesome cartoon series, your first computer or that special game. These are the things that never age, as do some special websites. We’ll discuss today’s technologies that enable you to create the websites that will be remembered by your audience and we’ll use them to create some cool applications for your site!
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Web 2.0 technology and AJAX go hand in hand for they offer many possibilities and interface enhancements that lift your websites to a new level. This edition focuses on these technologies, we also feature two articles on the most popular photo and graphics editing software suite, Photoshop. So if you want to keep up with the latest demands of your users, read on!
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So you want to keep on par with two of the most popular Web 2.0 technologies? Then read on! Sas Jacobs starts with an introduction to Flex and the Flex Builder 2 tool. This tool for developers that want to make great dynamic applications that can be run by the Flash Player 9 (browser plug-in). The advantage is that it contains a lot of build in components that will save you a lot of work.
After that it’s time to get started with building your first basic Flex application. You’ll learn to create a project, a user interface, compile the SWF file, add an image and how to add a fade effect.
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With 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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Photoshop, CSS and JavaScript, those are the ingredients behind many of today’s websites and applications. Every website needs a design, and most websites use photographs, that’s when Photoshop comes into the picture. CSS helps you to position your elements using efficient and cross browser compatible code. And last but not least JavaScript helps you to create the functionality and navigation of your website.
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One year ago, DMXzone created a new service; a monthly e-Magazine. The Magazine aimed to not only help web developers and designers with the best tutorials but also to entertain, inspire and to inform our users on the latest developments in the web development world.
Our latest e-Magazine survey gives us reason to celebrate, as it indicates we achieved this mission. Nevertheless our aim for the next year is to continue to improve the contents of the e-Magazine to a new level so each edition will be better then ever. We’d like
to thank you for your support over the year and we like to celebrate our anniversary edition with many new improvements to the content and layout of the e-Magazine and two bonus tutorials on ASP.NET.
Ok let’s start to tell what’s on the cake; we’re beginning with one of your favorite topics; CSS and navigation. Nancy shows you how to build a navigation bar using Dreamweaver and CSS. In a few minutes you’ll have a navigation that loads quickly, looks like a peach
and involves the use of CSS for navigation and rollovers.
Then it’s time to move on to another popular topic, Tom Dell’Aringa shows you how to use AJAX for your user interface with The “Yellow Fade” Technique. More AJAX and usability in our interview with the man behind AJAX, Jesse James Garrett. This young legend gives
his thoughts on about AJAX and usability.
On to the next topic, Alex July shows you how to build your own Rich Text editor using JavaScript and DHTML. This edition contains two full parts of the series. Followed up by another tutorial of Tom Dell’Aringa that uses JavaScript to make the form appear as if we were moving through a series of steps instead of using a very long form.
Time for some multimedia, Sas Jacobs shows you how to create a Video Player that plays external FLV files. Using XML and Flash you’ll be able to create a player that enables the user to choose a video clip from a drop down list which will play automatically. You’ll also
be able to pause and rewind the clip.
And to put the icing on the cake we have two extra articles that are all about ASP.NET. Kevin Koch shows you how to build an image gallery, uploader and thumbnailer with ASP.NET. So let’s start designing and coding, hardcore style!
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This edition contains all the technologies that you need for dynamic design of 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 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.
Last but not least we have an interview with creative director Garrett Nantz, the creator of many great sites like the Da Vinci Code.
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