Web/Mobile How-Tos

Safely Export Pictures from QuarkXPress

This process is ideal when you want to give a Web developer pictures that you cropped, rotated, or altered in QuarkXPress. It's also useful for converting a picture from one file format or color space to another.

Combine Illustrator Patterns with Photoshop Masks for Instant Visual Appeal

With this technique, you can create eye-catching imagery without fancy plug-ins or big stock photo budgets.

View Source: Make Web Site Elements Partially Transparent

With CSS3, you can create all kinds of transparency effects, including overlapping, partially transparent text and buttons. And it even works in IE!

Mix Acrobat and Flash for Better Interactivity

In this real-world example, you'll learn how to embed Flash and bring an interactive PDF to life.

CSS Fundamentals

To describe your Web designs, you need to understand the syntax of CSS. Once you get the hang of it, you’ll be speaking in CSS in no time.

Master Templates in Dreamweaver, Part III

Use optional regions to hide and show pieces of code on different template-based pages. You'll escape that cookie cutter look yet still save lots of time!

Design a Unique Twitter Background

Make your Twitter page stand out (in a good way!) with these four simple tips.

Master Templates in Dreamweaver, Part II

Do you think that building a site with templates will lead to something that looks the same on every page? Never fear! In part two of this three-part series, you'll learn how CSS magic and a little-known Dreamweaver template feature helps you build visually unique pages using just one Dreamweaver template.

Master Templates in Dreamweaver: Part 1

Templates are production godsends, but they're also flexible enough to let you stretch your design muscles and keep a site's many pages varied and interesting. This three-part series will tell you everything you need to know about making and using Dreamweaver CS4 templates.

WordPress for Creative Pros, Part 2

Now you're ready to dive into customizing how your WordPress site acts and looks.

WordPress for Creative Pros, Part 1

WordPress is a user-friendly way to get a Web site up and running fast, yet it can be the basis of powerful, well-designed sites. This two-part series combines helpful instructions for beginners with tips for advanced users.

Mobile Design How-to: Use a Vector iPhone Skin

When you're designing for the iPhone, making something look good on a screen is the easy part. The hard part is interacting with that design. What happens when you click on a button? How about a slider? Here's how to create a functional mockup without writing a single line of code.

View Source: Designing and Testing Sites for Internet Explorer 8

IE8 is faster and better, but if you’re not careful, IE8 may ignore all of its fancy CSS and JavaScript improvements and revert to displaying pages like IE7 or even IE5. Here's how to outsmart it.

Design for Mobile Devices

Are you looking for the tools and know-how to create engaging experiences for mobile devices? We've got the goods.

View Source: Make Pop-Up Tooltips with Dreamweaver

You can add pop-up image captions, word definitions, and more to your Web pages, and you don't need to be a programmer to do it. Here's how to make it happen in Dreamweaver CS4.

Get Creative with Vector Speech and Thought Bubbles

It doesn't take long to create speech or thought bubbles in Adobe Illustrator. Bonus: As you have fun, you'll learn more about the Pathfinder palette, Shape tools, Warp tools, and the Pen tool.

ViewSource: Build Interactive HTML Tables with Dreamweaver CS4

An HTML table is the best way to display rows and columns of information. But giving site visitors the ability to sort that data hasn't been so easy. Now, with a little help from JavaScript and Dreamweaver CS4, you can super-power your HTML tables so that visitors can quickly sort that data.

Create "Star Wars" Scrolling Text in Flash

Flash CS4 Professional's two new 3D tools open up all kinds of skewing and perspective possibilities. Here's how to use them.

View Source: How to Use Photoshop Files with Dreamweaver CS4

Follow along with tutorial files while you learn the best practices in Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

Create Rich Media with Acrobat and Flash

If you have Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, you can combine PDFs and Flash files for previously impossible media richness.