Flash and ActionScript are ideal for creating flexible, easily updatable web sites that are both unique in design and small in file size. In Creating a Portfolio Web Site Using Flash CS4 Professional, Adobe Certified Instructor Paul Trani shows how to exploit Flash to create a web site that showcases work to clients and prospective employers. Find out how to add dynamic navigation, animation, and video to a page, and how to load, sort and display XML that enables portfolio content to be updated without opening Flash. This course is designed to take your existing tweening skills and gotoAndPlay code and walk away with a fully functional Flash site. Exercise files accompany the course.

In Flash CS5 Professional Essential Training, author Todd Perkins explains the fundamentals of Flash Professional CS5, the industry standard for creating animations and interactive applications for the web, desktop, and mobile devices. This course starts with the basics, such as using the drawing tools to create simple animations, and progresses to automating animation with tweens and adding interactivity with ActionScript. This course also covers how to add sound and video to projects, enhance realism with effects like easing, and publish a project to a variety of platforms. Exercise files are included.

In Flash CS5 Professional Essential Training, author Todd Perkins explains the fundamentals of Flash Professional CS5, the industry standard for creating animations and interactive applications for the web, desktop, and mobile devices. This course starts with the basics, such as using the drawing tools to create simple animations, and progresses to automating animation with tweens and adding interactivity with ActionScript. This course also covers how to add sound and video to projects, enhance realism with effects like easing, and publish a project to a variety of platforms. Exercise files are included.

On these DVDs learn how to create a variety of landscapes, including tackling water flowing under a humped back bridge. A sunlit scene of a pony drinking from a tranquil stream will help you to introduce animals to your landscapes. While a dark, heavy sky above a Scottish castle shows you how to paint drama and atmosphere. And that’s just the first DVD! The second continues the theme of buildings in the landscape and in this I show you how to add light and shadows to paintings. Create a thatched roof, or a French Cafe bathed in strong sunlight and a warm landscape in Rural Hampshire will help you bring together all the skills you have learned.

Autodesk Revit MEP software's modeling and layout tools enable you to create mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems more accurately and with greater ease. Architects, structural engineers, and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers can more effectively collaborate and interact based on workflow and project requirements. VTC author, Temesgen Hussein, introduces viewers to the MEP engineering workflow, initially demonstrating how to effectively modify views and execute common tasks. Learn how to add mechanical equipment, create piping systems, automatically and manually layout and inspect piping, add valves, define required lighting, create color fills, place light fixtures and much, much more.

this Training course begins with the essentials of workflow and Flash foundations (including Frames, Keyframes, creating shapes, blend modes) and then moves on to motion and effects, sound and video, and widgets and interactivity. Next comes the fun with creative projects such creating sweeping motion using custom easing, generating interactive navigation, creating slide shows, using masks, producing stunning effects with Flash 8’s new filters, adding looping music, and more. The DVD is packed with everything you need to work through the projects in the book and start creating your own Web sites and animations that wow

In ColdFusion 9: AJAX Controls and Techniques, Dan Short demonstrates how to add Web 2.0 style and functionality to applications using the complete set of AJAX controls and workflow tools in ColdFusion 9. Together, this tool set enables developers to build visually compelling, data-rich cross-browser web applications without having to write large amounts of custom javascript code. This course covers using ColdFusion layout controls, creating interactive forms and data grids, and adding a map powered by Google Maps. Exercise files are included with the course.

On these DVDs learn how to create a variety of landscapes, including tackling water flowing under a humped back bridge. A sunlit scene of a pony drinking from a tranquil stream will help you to introduce animals to your landscapes. While a dark, heavy sky above a Scottish castle shows you how to paint drama and atmosphere. And that’s just the first DVD! The second continues the theme of buildings in the landscape and in this I show you how to add light and shadows to paintings. Create a thatched roof, or a French Cafe bathed in strong sunlight and a warm landscape in Rural Hampshire will help you bring together all the skills you have learned.

Clear your schedules for this eagerly anticipated epic 3 1/2 hr release from Sonic Academy.

Using proven techniques, this volume shows how to add, subtract, multiply and divide faster than is possible with a calculator or pencil and paper, and helps readers conquer their nervousness about math.

We'll begin this process by learning what an object style is then move on to some basic functionality including creating, applying, and editing our styles. Once we have a good understanding of object style basics, we'll focus on more advanced functionality such as integration of paragraph styles into object styles & creating parent child relationships between object styles. We'll wrap things up by learning how to apply effects to the different parts of an object using an object style. A word of caution though. It is highly recommended that you have a already completed our Introduction to Paragraph Styles and Character Styles course before working through this one. After completing these lessons, you'll have a good understanding of how to add object styles into your workflow to quickly and efficiently control the formatting of both text and graphic based objects.

In our How to Play Acoustic Rock Guitar DVD, Guitar World's own esteemed associate editor Andy Aledort teaches you the acoustic rock secrets of Led Zeppelin, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, the Beatles, John Mayer and any others!. You'll learn basic strumming patterns, fingerpicking, alternate tunings, basic and intermediate soloing and arpeggiated patterns. With more than two hours of lessons, How to Play Acoustic Rock Guitar DVD will help you play like an acoustic god in no time!

InDesign CS5 opens the door to a new world: with the addition of exciting animation tools and deeper multimedia support. It’s now a viable interactive authoring tool. Designers want to create engaging interactive content, but may resist making the transition from page layout to timeline-based thinking. But now it’s much easier: InDesign CS5?s new interactive features are intuitive and easy to learn. And once they’ve mastered those tools in the familiar world of InDesign, they’ll find that Flash isn’t scary after all. Designers already know how to add text, graphics, and geometric shapes to a page in InDesign, it’s a short walk to adding interactive features. Before they know it, they’re creating Flash content.

Lucid dreaming is the ability to become aware that you are awake whilst you are still within your dream. It is an experience like no other. The ability to have a lucid dream can be taught. It comes naturally to some people whilst others have to work at it. But you CAN learn how to lucid dream.

Aimed at the senior managers of SMEs who are looking to sell all or part of the business. This book shows how to implement Corporate Governance procedures to add both perceived and real value to a business. Implementing CG procedures before sale of the business is likely to add a premium to the price, increase the pool of buyers at the asking price and bring a business to the top of the acquisition shopping list.

How can you extend Google Apps to fit your organization’s needs? This concise guide shows you how to use Google Scripts, the javascript-based language that provides a complete web-based development platform—with no downloads, configuration, or compiling required. You’ll learn how to add functionality to Gmail, spreadsheets, and other Google services, or build data-driven apps that run from a spreadsheet, in a browser window, or within a Google Site.
If you have some Java experience, getting started with Google Scripts is easy. Through code examples and step-by-step instructions, you’ll learn how to build applications that authenticate users, display custom data from a spreadsheet, send emails, and many more tasks.