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For a few years now, Jasc Software’s Paint Shop Pro has been a popular and affordable image editor and paint program for producing Web graphics. Whether or not you joined the bandwagon early on, you’ll be able to learn lots from this full-color guide. It illuminates the basic and advanced aspects of working within the updated program, Paint Shop Pro 5, to create excellent Web images–from logos and icons to photos and background graphics. Author Andy Shafran first takes you through the basics of using the package to create and edit simple graphics and photos. He also teaches you about GIF, JPEG, and other Web file formats and explains the basics of using HTML tags to add images to your pages. Next you apply special effects and work with Picture Tubes (a tool for painting with graphics instead of paint), layers, and black-and-white images. Shafran offers advice on using scanners and digital cameras to bring images into your computer and helps you retouch and correct those images. He also explains how to create transparent GIFs, GIF animations, image maps, and backgrounds and teaches you how to keep your images small. The last two chapters focus on using extra HTML tags to control the appearance of your images and on learning additional Paint Shop Pro tips for creating gradients, textures, drop shadows, clip art, and 3-D effects. One appendix directs you to Web sites that offer graphics and development guidance. Another supplies a reference list to Paint Shop Pro’s toolbar and palette options. –Kathleen Caster

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Using a real world examples, Andy walks the reader through the creation of an image using the smudge brush, and clip art. Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics, Second Edition is a well written, comprehensive guide to not only Paint Shop Pro 5 but to web graphics in general. Jasc has a wonderful new program and Andy has more than done justice to it with his new book. — WebWeaver XXI Reviews – June 1998Whether a beginning novice or an experienced web master, this fully updated and expanded second edition of Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics will clearly instruct the reader/user in the latest feature of Paint Shop Pro 5 and the use of a digital camera. Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics offers hundreds of pages of full color examples teaching all elements and aspects of Paint Shop Pro 5. Creating Paint Shop Pro Web Graphics is a must for anyone seeking to create a truly memorable and effective web site. — Midwest Book Review – July 1998

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In Detail DotNetNuke is an open-source web application framework written in VB. NET for the ASP. NET framework. The application’s content management system is extensible and customizable through the use of skins and modules, and it can be used to create, deploy, and manage intranet, extranet, and websites. DotNetNuke has a skinning architecture, which provides a clear separation between design and content, enabling a web designer to develop skins without requiring any specialist knowledge of development in ASP. NET; only knowledge of HTML and an understanding of how to prepare and package the skins themselves are required. If you want to create great-looking skins for your DotNetNuke websites, this book is for you. If you’re new to DotNetNuke skinning, this book is the ideal introduction. It will give you clear, concise and practical guidance to take you from the basics of DotNetNuke skinning right through to developing the skills to make you a DotNetNuke skinner to be reckoned with! This book gives you step-by-step instructions to the fundamentals of skinning so that you will be in control of the look and feel of your DotNetNuke site, and dreaming of new ideas for creating more interactive user interfaces. What you will learn from this book? Basics of DNN skinsSetting up your skin development environment and creating a skinPage design and layout for your skinImplementing styles in your skinConfiguring and customizing the skin objectsConfiguring the menu in your skinManaging graphics for your skin to change the look Creating and managing containersPackaging and deploying your skinModifying the control panel for skin administrationApproach Designed as a tutorial for beginners to DotNetNuke skinning, this book is packed with practical steps for you to try. Written in a clear, easy-to-read style this book will guide you through the most important tasks of working with DotNetNuke skins. Who this book is written for? This book is for web designers or developers who want to customize DNN sites, to bring a specific look and feel to them, and create more attractive user interfaces. This book is ideal for beginners to DotNetNuke skinning. You will need to know about the general operation of DotNetNuke and also have some familiarity with creating web pages. Familiarity with CSS and basic ASP. NET would be a bonus.

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Collins Gems are smartly designed pocketreference guides, providing knowledge at aglance on a wide variety of popular and timelysubjects. Packed with outstanding color photosand illustrations, and featuring durableflexi-bindings, these unique quick-referencebooks offer the minimum in size and themaximum in information.

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A practical guide to creating and maintaining your own DotNetNuke website, and developing new modules and skins Specially revised and updated version of this acclaimed DotNetNuke book Create and manage your own website with DotNetNuke Customize and enhance your site with skins and custom modules Extensive coverage of the DAL and DAL+ for custom module development Complete coverage of setup, administration, and development In Detail DotNetNuke is an open-source Content Management System and web application framework. DotNetNuke has taken the Microsoft world by storm and now at version 4, its community has grown to over 200,000 users. This book covers virtually everything you need to know to get your DotNetNuke website up and running. Concisely written and with clear explanations, this book is covers installation, administration, deployment, site creation and all of the basic built in DotNetNuke modules. For developers, chapters on the core architecture, skinning and custom modules, including coverage of the DAL+, give you the skills to customize and extend your site. The book starts off by giving you a deep understanding of working with basic DotNetNuke sites, guiding you through the features and giving you the confidence to create and manage your site. After that, you will journey to the heart of DotNetNuke, and learn about its core architecture. Always concise, relevant and practical, you will find out what makes DotNetNuke tick, and from there, you will be ready to customize DotNetNuke. Developers will enjoy the detailed walkthrough of creating a new custom modules. Special emphasis is given to the DAL+, an extended feature set of the DotNetNuke Data Access Layer (DAL). You will see how to create custom modules with the DAL+, and invigorate your module development. Web designers will enjoy the material on skinning, helping them to create a new look for their site. You will learn about creating new skins, and packaging them up for easy deployment. You will master all of this as you leap into the development of a DotNetNuke 4 site. What you will learn from this book? This book will give you the skills to create and manage DotNetNuke websites as quickly as possible. You will: Install and configure DotNetNuke Master the standard modules Understand the core architecture of DotNetNuke Explore the inner workings of DotNetNuke modules Extend DotNetNuke using the DAL and DAL+ to create powerful custom modules Create your own skin using a HTML Editor Find out about where and how to host and deploy your site Approach You can use this book to help you set up and administer a DotNetNuke portal, even if you have a limited knowledge of ASP. NET. You will learn how to setup and administer an example site, stepping through all the tasks to ease your learning. If you are a developer, this book will help you extend the DotNetNuke portal by first helping you understand how the core framework works and then show you how to create custom modules and skins. A rudimentary knowledge of VB. NET programming is assumed, but the emphasis is not on becoming a better VB. NET programmer but on taming DotNetNuke. Who this book is written for? This book has been written for both the beginner wanting to set up a website and also ASP. NET developers with a grasp of VB. NET who want a deeper understanding of how to work with DotNetNuke. To work with the DotNetNuke code, you will need access to Visual Web Developer Express or Visual Studio . NET 2005. No prior knowledge of DotNetNuke is assumed.

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Daniel N. Egan Over the past seven years, Daniel has held a variety of positions in the information technology and engineering fields. Currently, he is a System Development Specialist for Automated Data Processing’s Southern California region working extensively in database applications and Web development. Daniel is an MCP and MCSD. In addition to his development work, he teaches a VB. NET Certification course at California State University Fullerton as well as serves on its . NET Advisory board. He is also the founder and chief author of Dot Net Doc (DotNetDoc. com), a . NET and DNN developer resource website built using the DotNetNuke framework. He has written numerous articles on DotNetNuke and the underlying DNN architecture. He is also the founder of the LA/Orange County DNN Usergroup and is currenly working on two DNN Related projects. DNNUsergroup Online ( DNNUGOnline. com), a portal designed to allow usergroups to broadcast their meetings online. DotNetNuke Radio, a live internet radio show about DotNetNuke. Michael Washington Michael Washington is a Website developer and an ASP. NET, C#, and Visual Basic programmer. He is a DotNetNuke Core member and has been involved with DotNetNuke for over 3 years. He is the author of numerous DotNetNuke modules and tutorials. He is one of the founding members of the Southern California DotNetNuke Users group. He has a son, Zachary and resides in Los Angeles with his wife Valerie. Steve Valenzuela Steve is the manager of the University Extended Education (UEE) IT Department at California State University, Fullerton, where he has worked for the last 5 years. Steve has worked specifically with DotNetNuke for over 2 years, in that time re-designing and delivering various Extended Education websites on the DotNetNuke portal framework as well as designing and delivering custom modules that support the function of University Extended Education.

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* The only starter guide on Web graphics that covers static images, such as buttons and banners, as well as photos, animation, and video * Written for beginning Web page designers who don’t have a graphic design background * Features step-by-step instruction to help first-time designers learn the tricks to making Web graphics come out perfectly * Includes instructions on creating and placing animated GIFs, digital photos, Flash animations, and digital video on a Web page * Coauthor Bud Smith is the bestselling author of Creating Web Pages For Dummies, Sixth Edition (0-7645-1643-4), which has sold more than 500,000 copies in all editions * CD-ROM contains trial versions of popular graphics software: Adobe’s Photoshop Elements and Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, and JASC’s Paintshop Pro, plus sample clip art and examples from the book

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Build cool Web pages with buttons, photos, animation, and more Create great graphics and use them like a pro – no experience necessary! A Web site without graphics is like a hot dog without mustard. This helpful guide promises that your sites will never lack flavor! Even if you have no design experience, you’ll discover fun, easy ways to create banners, buttons, animated GIFs, and more – then find out how to use them to spice up your pages. All this on the bonus CD-ROM Tryout versions of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop Elements Macromedia Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX trial versions Evaluation version of Paint Shop Pro, and much more

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How to setup, configure and customise this powerful PHP/MySQL based Open Source CMS Install, configure, administer, maintain and extend Drupal. Control access with users, roles and permissions Structure your content using Drupal’s powerful CMS features Includes coverage of release 4. 7 In Detail Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Based on PHP/MySQL, its power and flexibility combined with its exceptional design mean it is already on the way to becoming the de facto standard for CMS Websites. Drupal’s modular design and structured source code make it both highly flexible and easily extended and modified. Drupal is extremely scalable, making it ideal for both a simple personal website as well as an industrial strength commercial or institutional web presence. Drupal is a model open source project in that it has a large, friendly community of people who contribute to the project in various ways. Drupal is not only free and easy to use, but this community provides on going mutual support. Drupal’s power means choosing an initial pathway can be daunting. The flexibility and power of its content management features mean the right approach needs to be taken. This book takes you from initial set up through site design and creation in a series of carefully structured steps. While there are a few advanced topics that are beyond the scope of the book, all of the core stages of creating a website using Drupal are covered in detail. What you will learn from this book? Chapter 1 introduces you to the world of Drupal and looks at where Drupal comes from, where its going and what it can offer you. Because it is important to understand the nature of the tasks which lie ahead, it also discusses how to plan and build your website, taking a sneak preview of the book’s demo Website in the process. Finally, we scrutinize the Drupal community and learn how to make the most of Drupal as an organized, living entity and not just a piece of software. Chapter 2 deals with how to get everything you need up and running on a development machine and also briefly looks at how all the requisite technologies gel together to produce your working Drupal site. Once everything is up and running, and after looking over some of the more common installation problems, the chapter presents a short tour of Drupal in order to give you an idea of what to expect. Chapter 3 looks at the most general settings which all Drupal administrators need to contend with. Everything from determining your site’s name to dealing with the cache or file system settings gets treated here before we look at more focused and complex issues in the chapters to come. Chapter 4 sees us adding functionality to the newly created site. The focus of this chapter is really on modules and how they can be added and enabled, or even how to obtain modules that are not part of the standard distribution. Since blocks are often required to display the functionality provided by modules, this chapter ends off with a discussion on how to control blocks. Chapter 5 concerns itself with the topic of access control. Drupal has a sophisticated role based access control system, which is fundamentally important for controlling how users access your site. This chapter will give you the information you need to implement whatever access controls you require. Chapter 6 gets to the heart of the matter by beginning the book’s coverage on content. Working with content, what content types are available, administering content and even a discourse on some of the more common content related modules serve as a basis for moving to more advanced content related matters that follow in the next chapter. Chapter 7 gives you the edge when it comes to creating engaging and dynamic content. While this chapter doesn’t require you to be an expert in HTML, PHP and CSS it does introduce you to the basics and shows how, with a little knowledge, extremely powerful and professional content can be created. That’s only half the story, because later on it looks at categorization and how this particular feature of Drupal sets it apart from everything else out there. Chapter 8 gives you a run down of how attractive interfaces are created in Drupal through the use of themes. As well as discussing briefly some of the considerations that must be taken into account when planning your website, it ends off by looking at how to make important modifications to your chosen theme. Chapter 9 really adds the icing on the cake by looking at a host of more advanced topics. From creating flexible content types and generating revenue from ads, all the way through to building dynamic content using Ajax, you will find something to enhance your website and add that something special. Chapter 10 takes a pragmatic look at the type of tasks you will need to be proficient in in order to successfully run and maintain a Drupal site. Whether its setting up cron jobs or making backups of your database, everything you need to do throughout the course of running your newly created website will be covered here. Appendix A deals with the all important topic of deployment. Because all major work should be done on a copy of your Website on a development machine, this appendix presents a sound process for taking the finished product and making it available for public consumption on your host site. Who this book is written for? This book will suit anyone who has a need to create a content rich website. Whether you are:Adding a personal web page Building a forum Writing a collaborative book Retailing goods Creating a blog Launching a community Website This book will prove to be an indispensable companion. Both experts and beginners to computing alike will find the information contained herein to be accessible and easy to intuit.

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David Mercer David Mercer was born in August 1976 in Harare, Zimbabwe. Having always had a strong interest in science, David came into regular contact with computers at university where he graduated cum laude with majors in applied math and math (although he minored in computer science). As a programmer and professional writer who has been writing both code and books for about nine years, he has worked on a number of well known titles, in various capacities, on a wide variety of topics. His books have sold tens of thousands of copies and have been translated into over 6 different languages to date. David finds that the challenges arising from the dichotomous relationship between the science (and art) of software programming and the art (and science) of writing is what keeps his interest in producing books piqued. He will no doubt continue to write professionally in the future. David balances his time between programming, reviewing, writing, and contributing to interesting web-based projects such as RankTracer and LinkDoozer. When he isn’t working (which isn’t that often) he enjoys playing guitar (generally on stage and unrehearsed) and getting involved in outdoor activities ranging from touch rugby and golf to water skiing and snowboarding. Visit RankTracer or find him on LinkDoozer where he is generally lurking.

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