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So you need to make your Web site accessible. It's not the purpose of this article to persuade you to do it; let's just assume that you've decided to do it.
Director is a great application for new media promotion and promotions together can create an audience for a project and assist with beginning stages of the design process. Stickmancan is a prerelease for a project called 'stickmancan '. It is structured as an interactive screensaver t...
There are a number of features included in ColdFusion MX 6.1 that solidify its position as the best choice for Web application development - from both the developer and client perspectives. These features include enhanced performance and scalability, as well as enhancements to key func...
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In its simplest form, text-based data provides a basic view of its structure and meaning. Charting enhances that view and puts the data in an entirely different light. ColdFusion has offered charting capabilities since version 5.0, but the functionality has always lacked some finesse â...
Macromedia Studio MX includes a number of relatively unheralded gems. Perhaps it's because Macromedia hasn't hyped these features enough, or maybe users spend so much time focusing on a particular tool that they have simply overlooked or ignored how the other pieces of Studio MX actual...
Masking fuzzy or irregular edges is typically a slow, painstaking procedure of hand selection with the Polygon Lasso tool, or if you prefer a vector mask, the Pen tool. Plugins that automate the process (e.g., Extensis Mask Pro, Corel Knock Out) are expensive for one-trick ponies. And ...
In this tutorial, we're going to examine some aspects of creating a navigation bar in Fireworks MX. We will create three buttons for our small navigation bar, and then we will instruct Fireworks to write the JavaScript code necessary to create rollover effects for the buttons. In the e...
As the Internet evolves, the demand for a Web interface that rivals the functionality of desktop applications has become evident. The solution is the 'executable Internet,' a rich-client technology boasting a client-side browser plug-in capable of making the user's experience of a Web ...
With the recent release of Flash MX 2004 Professional Edition and the SOAP support built into Flash Player some are questioning whether Flash Remoting has become obsolete. Indeed, it appears that Macromedia did not do anything to enhance the Flash Remoting feature, but instead made a s...
Building on the success of components in the last release of Flash MX, Macromedia has outdone itself in rebuilding this complete architecture for ActionScript version 2.0.
This article will cover techniques in dealing with application state and complex animations. Additionally, I've included a few quick primers on how to implement some of the designs a Flash developer can be expected to put into Flash as well as a sample application file.
As you might have noticed, the current incarnation of Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Flash MX 2004, has evolved from a simple Web animation package to a full-fledged IDE that allows both developers and designers to work with graphics, animation, video, and sound and spice it up with exte...
If you've upgraded to Flash MX 2004 Professional or you purchased the FireFly Data Connection Kit for Flash MX, then you've probably read a lot about how easy it is to have Flash pull data into a Flash Movie. The only problem is that this is not how applications work in the real world...
So you think you're ready to hop on the CSS styling bandwagon? Many people are finding the decreased page load time and quick site-wide changes to be attractive draws, and they're making the leap. The enhancements in Dreamweaver MX 2004 now make this an even more viable option. No, you...
The Web always changes, and the tools we developers use must also. Dreamweaver MX 2004, the next generation of the popular Web development program, is on its way, featuring improved support for cutting-edge CSS, time-saving enhancements, and performance improvements. In this first look...
For many of us who comment regularly on the swirling, whirling Internet technologies space, 'Web publishing' has never been a particularly satisfactory term. If the metaphor of 'publishing' was the correct one for the business of making things public on the Web, then how about the rest...
Macromedia and its developer community have a unique bond based on a mutual fascination with what the Internet could be, a desire to create great experiences, and a need to keep pushing the limits. The active dialogue that takes place between Macromedia and its customers pushes both si...


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