Synopses & Reviews
Covering everything from the most traditional animation tricks and techniques developed in the worlds of film and television to the latest software tools designed to make animating easier, Animation on the Web provides all you need to make dynamic, eye-opening animated Web sites. This book teaches how (and how not) to use the widening array of available animation technologies such as animated GIFs, Shockwave, Java-based animation, and DHTML to bring your site to life.
-- Covers all the hottest, latest Web animation software and techniques.
-- Goes from basic animation techniques to the finer points of file formats in implementing animation on a Web site.
-- Gets Web designers quickly up to speed on adding animation to their sites.
Synopsis
As the Web evolves from a static publishing medium to one based more on active media and interactivity, animation is becoming a critical component of Web site design. The demand for animation on Web sites is skyrocketing -- yet as many Web designers are only now getting a handle on Photoshop, Illustrator and FreeHand, now they are asked to be animators as well. That's where Animation on the Web comes in: a thorough guide to everything having to do with Web animation.
Description
This book covers basic through advanced animation techniques from the point of view of Web development and traditional animation. It offers insider advice on using DHTML, animated GIF, QuickTime, Shockwave, RealMedia, mBedlets, and other Web animation technologies, and includes a vivid 32-page color graphics section. The CD-ROM is packed with sample animations, examples from the book, shareware, and demos of popular animation software.
Flash is Macromedia's new tool for people who want to put a little multimedia on their Web sites without buying and mastering a professional tool like Macromedia Director. With the affordable Flash program (and this book), even novices can lend impact to their sites with animated logos, banners, buttons, cartoons, and illustrations.
Flash 3! CreativeWeb Animation is a complete introduction to Flash from one of Macromedia's own training experts, Darrel Plant. It shows even the newest beginner how to make streaming animations, rollover buttons, animated logos, and other moving graphics that load and play instantly. The book covers Flash's drawing tools, animation controls, file format support, and its easy-to-use versions of multimedia features like tweening, and "onion-skinning." After readers master these tools, they learn how to make the most of the unique vector drawing tools that allow Flash to generate very compact, screamingly fast-loading files that are scalable to different resolutions. Finally, readers learn the rules for using animation effectively: how to make it useful for the viewer; how to plan Flash integration into a Web site; and how to make animated Web content easy to maintain.
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Managing Your Business with QuickBooks 6 is a concise, readable book that explains computerized business accounting for small businesses using Intuit's QuickBooks or QuickBooks Pro. QuickBooks, the Quicken of small businesses, is by far the most popular program for small-business accounting. Rather than duplicating the explanation in the manual, this book assumes readers know nothing about accounting procedures and orients them to concepts such as charts of accounts, liabilities, expenses, income, data maintenance, and year-end reporting, using
Examples from QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro.
Readers will find real-world advice on everything from how to budget time for converting to computerized bookkeeping to guidance on how to make QuickBooks an integral part of running their business successfully. Here they'll learn how to use QuickBooks to pay bills and write checks; pay employees; record sales taxes due; prepare weekly, monthly,
quarterly, and annual reports for tax reporting; and assess the health of their business. A special appendix gives tips on setting up QuickBooks for 20 different small businesses so that readers can quickly customize QuickBooks for
their own particular businesses.
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Nowadays, many companies buy software suites for their employees-and expect them to gain at least a working knowledge of all the applications bundled as part of the package. Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is the most cost-effective, relevant solution for these new users. As with all the Visual QuickStart
Guides, the emphasis is on addressing average users' most common, pertinent needs-not on trying to show every feature of every application. Microsoft Office for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide uses pictures and step-by-step procedures to teach how to use and integrate this Microsoft suite of Macintosh applications. The book is divided into three broad sections. In the preparatory chapters of the first part, readers learn basic Macintosh procedures and become familiar with the common techniques shared by all four Office applications. In the detailed chapters of the middle part, readers learn each Office application in depth. In the final part, readers find unique and useful tips and techniques for combining the strengths of the Office applications to solve common business needs.
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For anybody with a busy professional life, Symantec's
Industry leading contact-manager software, ACT! 3.0 is an invaluable timesaver. The ACT! 3 Visual QuickStart Guide doesn't waste any additional time. Written by an experienced ACT! corporate trainer, this is useful visual reference which explains the power of ACT! in simple, step-by-step language and rich screen-shots so a customer never wastes time reading through pages of text looking for the information they need. For busy people, this is a must. In addition, the ACT! 3 Visual QuickStart Guide has complete coverage of ACT! 3.0's many powerful features, from simple record creation and sorting to over 70 spreads on advanced features like security, dealing with strange file formats, synchronizing and merging databases and much more.
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