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Video-Based Tutorial: By Tom Geller

Drupal 6: Online Presentation of Data: Part 2 of 10
Looking at Drupal's database

Keep in mind that Drupal essentially is just an attractive and flexible interface to a back end database. So it's worthwhile to take a look at that database to understand what exactly happens when you create, modify, and delete content in Drupal. This understanding will make Drupal administration a lot clearer overall and it opens up a world of possibilities if you are an advanced programmer or a database administrator. Read More

Continuing our discussion of Web design principles, we should take a look at information hierarchy. The way to think about it is WE SEE, THEN WE READ. Web designers often do 4 or 5 jobs. They design the graphic elements, they create the interface design, navigation design, interaction design and often are required to design the information. But it should be done on a hierarchical basis that makes sense from the most important to the least important, from the general to the specific. Read More

Video-Based Tutorial: By Laurie Burruss

Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 5 of 12

In this excerpt from Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Hands-On Training, Laurie Burruss, director of digital media at Pasadena City College, demonstrates the eight commandments of naming. These are the rules, these are the commandments. Never break them. Read More

Video-Based Tutorial: By Laurie Burruss

Web Site Planning and Wireframing: Part 4 of 12

Let's take a moment to look at Firebug, the other extension that we loaded in previous lessons. There are several ways that you can access Firebug. Read More

Video-Based Tutorial: By Jan Kabili

Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac Essential Training: Preferences

In this clip, host Jan Kabili covers the Elements Preferences, and how to customize them to suit the way that you work. She covers the preferences dialog box and goes over the various categories, and how you can tweak them. Read More

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Rise|FX Electrifies Zeus's Lightning Bolt in ...

Although the entire Percy Jackson film is chock-full of fantastic visual effects, the last sequence on Mt. Olympus is when the lightning bolt takes center stage. The lightning bolt was a complex design, with the look of moving plasma, a w... Read More

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Capturing Moving Cars with AJA Ki Pro and the ARR...

When AJA Video Systems first announced the Ki Pro portable digital recording device, it was met with great enthusiasm and won six major industry awards. Director of Photography (DoP) Timo Plogstedt discovered these benefits and more when rec... Read More

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MAXON R12 Announced

MAXON R12 is here http://maxon.net Read More

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DigiEffects DEPTH for After Effects

Digieffects, a developer of popular visual effects plugins,today announced that Depth is immediately available for purchase.Depth, a plugin for After Effects, easily converts an entire AfterEffects composition into a depth map. Available for $49 ... Read More

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IBC 2010: IBC is coming up 9 days to go!

IBC is coming up, and our European broadcast cousins will be seeing much of what we've already seen at SIGGRAPH, and some of what we have yet to see. I have a bunch of SIGGRAPH news that I've been holding - as it relates to IBC just as wel... Read More

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