Recommended reading for Adobe Photoshop CS5, Adobe Dreamweaver CS5, Adobe InDesign CS5, Adobe Flash CS5, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

The Number 1 best-selling task-based reference, completely updated for Flash CS5

Covers all the major Flash Basic and Professional CS4 features with tons of screenshots and step-by-step instructions.
Readers quickly learn everything from basic vector graphics to animation with motion tweening and beyond.
An inexpensive, easy-to-use reference for those wanting to get up to speed on the new version

This eagerly anticipated update Visual QuickStart Guide uses a combination of task-based instruction and strong visuals to teach beginning and intermediate users how to create and launch powerful Web sites with Dreamweaver. Best-selling author J. Tarin Towers takes readers step by step through the new features in Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.

This book is suitable for beginnings, who want a thorough introduction to the technology, and is also suitable for more advanced users, who are looking for a convenient reference book.

The book is written in straightforward language and filled with accessible and easy-to-understand examples. By the end of the book, users will be able to smoothly integrate Dreamweaver into their work or projects.

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Like all the other Visual Quickstart guides, you cannot go wrong with this guide for Photoshop CS5. Photoshop has so may functions that it can be a bit daunting to tackle, but this easy to follow guide is perfect to show you the way.

There are no endless paragraphs, no patronising comments… just how to do it in easy steps, with pictures. This book is a must for any novice or if you need straight forward guidance.

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Adobe InDesign CS5 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide highlights the key new features, along with covering the ones readers have depended upon in previous versions of InDesign.

Comprehensive coverage of InDesign CS5's new features includes: tools for interactive documents, including the new animation panel; easier object selection; multiple page sizes; track text changes; new layers panel, live captions; production enhancements, and print to digital capability.

Using the task-based, visual approach that readers rely on in the Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume introduces readers to all facets of InDesign CS5. Users will be taught how to develop and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, export files for a wide array of uses, and much more.

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After years of using spacer GIFs, layers of nested tables, and other improvised solutions for building your web sites, getting used to the more stringent "standards-compliant" design that is de rigueur among professionals today can be intimidating. With standards-driven design, keeping style separate from content is not just a possibility but a reality. You no longer use HTML and XHTML as design tools, but strictly as ways to define the meaning and structure of web content. And Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are no longer just something interesting to tinker with, but a reliable method for handling all matters of presentation, from fonts and colors to page layout. When you follow the standards, both the site's design and underlying code are much cleaner. But how do you keep all those HTML and XHTML tags and CSS values straight?

Jennifer Niederst-Robbins, the author of our definitive guide on standards-compliant design, "Web Design in a Nutshell", offers you the perfect little guide when you need answers immediately: HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference. This revised and updated new edition takes the top 20 per cent of vital reference information from her "Nutshell" book, augments it judiciously, cross-references everything, and organizes it according to the most common needs of web developers. The result is a handy book that offers the bare essentials on web standards in a small, concise format that you can use carry anywhere for quick reference. This guide will literally fit into your back pocket. Inside "HTML and XHTML Pocket Reference", you'll find instantly accessible alphabetical listings of every element and attribute in the HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0 Recommendations. This is an indispensable reference for any serious web designer, author, or programmer who needs a fast on-the-job resource when working with established web standards.

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They say that good things come in small packages, and it's certainly true for this edition of "CSS Pocket Reference". Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1, this indispensable little book covers the most essential information that web designers and developers need to implement CSS effectively across all browsers. Inside, you'll find: a short introduction to the key concepts of CSS; a complete alphabetical reference to all CSS 2.1 selectors and properties; and, a chart displaying detailed information about CSS support for every style element and its cross-browser compatibility.

This reference neatly condenses the details of its top-selling companion volume, "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide" into one easy-to-use cheat-sheet that delivers all the CSS details you need to complete the task at hand. Whenever you're stuck and need an answer quickly - or if you just want to be sure you're applying CSS correctly - this edition of the "CSS Pocket Reference" is the book you'll want by your keyboard or, conveniently, in your back pocket.

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JavaScript is the efficient, object-based scripting language which might be inserted right into HTML pages it has earned its position within the Web developer's toolkit, to the degree that it is now regarded as required knowledge for Web developers.

You may use JavaScript to form dynamic, interactive applications that run inside a Web browser. JavaScript is also the language of preference for creating Dynamic HTML pages.

Because its syntax is based on the widely used programming languages C, C++, and Java, JavaScript is well known and simple to master for skilled programmers. As well, it's an interpreted scripting language, offering a flexible, forgiving programming environment newbie programmers.

This text provides a comprehensive summary of the core Javascript vocabulary and client-side scripting environment, as well as quick-reference material on core and client-side objects, methods, and properties. This new edition has been revised to cover JavaScript 1.5, and it is helpful for developers working with the latest standards-compliant browsers, such as Internet Explorer 7, 8 and 9, FireFox, Safari and Chrome.

It is ideal as an introduction for beginners and a speedy reference for experienced developers, this pocket-sized book is easy to carry anywhere and provides an acompanying book to "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide".

O'Reilly's Pocket References offer a wealth of crucial details in a concise, well-organized format, these handy books make an attempt to deliver just what you need to accomplish the project at hand.

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