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If you want to create a graphics box for your portfolio, but you don’t have a 3D software program, what do you do? If you have Photoshop, you can create a box with your own design that looks like you put it together with a snappy 3D program! In this tutorial, Linda leads you through the box creation and adds numerous other tips on how to make that image pop out with Photoshop CS2 magic.
Read MoreIn the previous article, I showed you the power of creating charts using the Flex charting components. We created a simple pie chart and added some styling as well as looking at some of the variations that are possible.
In this article, I want to take things one step further. This time, we'll create a column chart and display data that we've loaded from an external XML file. You'll see how to:
Welcome to the second and final part of this 2 part series regarding object oriented data access in ASP.NET 2.0. During object oriented data access in ASP.NET part 1 we began laying the foundation for a multi tiered ASP.NET application that utilized several key features of object oriented design.
Read MoreWithin the past few months, Linda has led you through several portfolio projects that will help you to expand your skills and offerings to clients and to potential employers. Now, in this last article to the portfolio series, Linda shows you how to put it all together. This tutorial covers the print portfolio as well as the CD and online portfolio with examples and guidelines.
Read MoreOne of the great features of Flex Builder and the Flex framework is the charting components. These components allow you to create several different types of charts using either tags or ActionScript including line, column, bar, pie and area charts. You can change the chart options and add styling.
In this tutorial, I'll walk you through the general process of creating a chart and we'll create a simple pie chart. You'll learn how to
I think many would agree that the most exciting news about Dreamweaver CS 3 is the cool Spry framework. If you don’t know what that is then here is my quick definition:
Spry is a framework for building basic AJAX functionality in Dreamweaver.
If you want to learn more about the concept I would suggest referring to Dreamweaver Help (that is if you own Dreamweaver CS 3), which I won’t be citing here, or visiting Adobe web site.
This two-part series is designed as a hands-on tutorial in which you will build a chat application utilizing Spry Data and Validation features.
Read MoreThe .NET 2.0 framework has brought developers many new useful features and a whole host of new built-in functionality that can be utilized in everyday development. One of the more complex new built in features is user management.
User management, membership, profiles, roles, security, authentication, authorization, it can go by a number of different names and definitions. The bottom line is that most web applications require some form of storing user accounts, their information, and usually at bare minimum their logon credentials.
Read MoreThe Central Control Center of Dreamweaver is and always has been the Insert bar. I am one of those developers who rarely if ever uses the menu system unless I need something I can’t get off the Insert bar. Freestanding and named the Object toolbar in Dreamweaver through version 4, then docked in version 6 and later renamed Insert bar, the Dreamweaver engineers fixed it to the top of the document window, where it provides easy one touch access.
Read MoreI can’t believe I’m doing this. I’m glad to be here writing for you about the soon to be launched next generation of Dreamweaver, but I can’t believe it’s a whole version since the last time we did this. I’m Nancy Gill and I’m very happy to have been asked by the DMX Zone to return for an encore performance and introduce to you Dreamweaver CS3, the first version of Dreamweaver to bear the company name of “Adobe.” I remember being online around midnight on Sunday night in April of 2005 when the word came down the Team Macromedia list that the sale of our beloved Macromedia to Adobe Systems (of all companies) would be announced on Monday morning. I never went to bed that night. As people came online over the next 4-6 hours and heard the news, there was a lot of speculation, reaction and very mixed emotions. What was going to happen to our favorite Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash? Had this artsy corporate giant bought out the company we had laughed with and cried over only to kill off the products we had spent close to a decade using and promoting?
Read MoreIf you've built applications in Flash, you'll probably have created at least one that loaded content from an external file. Maybe a text or XML file, or even a PHP or ASP .NET file that grabs information from a database. External files are useful because you don't need to update the application each time the content changes.
You'll be glad to know that you can also load external files into Flex applications, although things have changed quite a bit since earlier versions of Flash. You can load information from text files, XML documents and even from web services.
Read MoreIt seems that everyone these days suffers from “information anxiety,” not only in the amount of information that’s available but also in how to interpret that information so that it’s useful rather than detrimental. In this tutorial, Linda presents varying perspectives on information design, the role that graphic designers play in presenting visual information, and suggests a project that will round out your portfolio and that will help you visualize quantitative and qualitative information.
Read MoreAn annual report represents a juicy job for any designer, but the work can be rough. An understanding of the company in question, a trust between a designer and that company, and a willingness to forgo some creativity when it comes to dealing with financial pages is a must. In this article, Linda demonstrates some annual report problems and how to avoid them as you begin to create an annual report sample for your portfolio.
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