February 14th, 2009 fts2009
Dreamweaver CS4 has quickly established itself as the leading website creation software available on the market today. There are many organisations as well as individuals that long to have their own website but cannot afford the services of a professional web design company. With Adobe Dreamweaver, nearly anyone can successfully build a web presence. Adobe Dreamweaver is relatively simple to use, pays attention to current web standards, and allows even the less experienced web builder to put together a good looking, functional website.
Just as the use of a graphical interface has changed computing, making it more user-friendly, the use of Adobe Dreamweaver renders people with limited understanding of web construction capable of becoming a Web Designer. It is also an excellent platform for learning how web sites should be put together. For example, when you create a new page, Dreamweaver lets you choose from a series of standard layouts based on CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), the recommended specification for creating web pages. The code produced by Dreamweaver contains useful comments explaining how the page layout works.
Many small organisations have already learned to rely on Adobe Dreamweaver to build and manage their own website, creating and modifying pages and then uploading them via FTP to make them live and available to the public. Those organisations with a more urgent need to establish a web presence may still turn to professional web development companies to get them started and then use Adobe Dreamweaver when changes need to be made, often saving themselves a small fortune.
Another way that companies can save a few bucks is by commissioning web designers to create Dreamweaver templates and then using these templates in-house to build the website themselves. This also has the benefit of allowing organizations to maintain control of their site from the outset.
Although Dreamweaver is simple to use, it is unlikely that the average user can simple load it onto their machine and start using it effectively. Most people will benefit from having some Dreamweaver training. This will show them which are the essential aspects of the program and the process of creating a basic site and making it live. A good Dreamweaver training course will also give users an overview of the many web technologies, the underlying code, which Dreamweaver uses as the users visually create their web pages.
One of the best ways to make a site useful for visitors is making it interactive, allowing users to search for the specific content that they want. By attending an advanced Dreamweaver training course, staff within an organization can learn to add database-driven content to their website using technologies such as ASP, PHP or ColdFusion. And, here again, Dreamweaver does the lion’s share of the work, allowing users to create sophisticated search and results pages using the same simple point-and-click and drag-and-drop techniques used to create basic content.
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February 12th, 2009 fts2009
PDFs are documents whose original format and layout has been preserved, allowing users to view the document as it was originally formatted without the need to own the program in which it was created. All you need is the freely available Acrobat Reader and you can open the document and browse through it pretty much as its creator intended.
Almost everyone agrees that Adobe Acrobat PDF s are a great thing but they can sometimes be rather difficult and tedious to navigate. That’s where bookmarks come in handy: they are clickable headings which link to specific parts of the PDF document and enable you to get around a lot faster than scrolling or moving one page at a time.
When you distribute PDFs that contain important information about your products or services, you want to make sure that your audience can get to key facts as quickly as possible. Adding bookmarks to your PDF files can make them more useful and attractive to potential clients.
The bookmarks panel is one of the navigation panels normally displayed on the left of the Acrobat Reader screen. To show bookmarks, click on the bookmark icon or choose View - Navigation Panels - Bookmarks. Click on a bookmark to move to the page that it links to.
If the PDF that you are distributing to your audience is one that you want them to spend some time reading and digesting, adding bookmarks will improve the chances of this happening. However, bookmarks cannot be created with Acrobat Reader: you will need either Acrobat Professional or Acrobat Standard, the commercial versions of Acrobat. But then you will also need one of these two bits of software to create your PDF in the first place.
Once you have created the PDF, open it with Acrobat Standard or Professional and open the Bookmarks panel. Next, navigate to the first page that you want your audience to be able to find easily, choose New Bookmark from the Options menu in the top right of the Bookmarks panel and enter a name for the bookmark. Repeat this procedure to create as many bookmarks as you think useful.
If this all sounds a bit tedious then let’s look at a few ways of speeding things up. Firstly, instead of typing a name for a bookmark, you can use the selection tool (located next to the hand tool on the toolbar) to highlight some text on the page then, when you choose New Bookmark, the highlighted text will be used as the name of the bookmark. Also, you can use the keyboard shortcut for New Bookmark: Control-B.
Better still, why not have your bookmarks automatically generated for you! The software utility AutoBookmark (http://www.evermap.com/autobookmark.asp) will generate bookmarks automatically based on the textual attributes of your PDF file such as font size and indentation.
Then there is Adobe’s own PDFMaker, a utility for Microsoft Office 97, 2002 and 2003 which is automatically installed along with Acrobat Standard or Professional producing an extra menu in Office programs called “Adobe PDF” and an “Adobe PDFMaker” toolbar.
When you create a PDF using the PDFMaker utility, any text formatted with Word’s heading styles (”Heading 1″, “Heading 2″, etc.) will automatically be converted to PDF bookmarks as will entries in indexes and tables of content. Similarly, if you PDF an Excel workbook using PDFMaker, bookmarks to each worksheet will automatically be created. In PowerPoint, bookmarks to each slide in your presentation will be generated for you.
Some DTP packages will also automatically generate PDF bookmarks in a similar way to Microsoft Word (based on styles, indexes and tables of content), namely InDesign, QuarkXPress and Serif PagePlus. These three software applications have the added benefit that you don’t actually need to buy Acrobat Standard or Professional to create your PDF files, since this facility is built-in to each of these great programs.
It is also worth mentioning that bookmarks can do more than just link to a particular page within the PDF document. Firstly, by default, they actually link to a view rather than a page. Thus, for example, if a page in your document contains a map, you can zoom in on the map till it fills the screen and then create a bookmark. When your users click this bookmark, they will be taken to the exact zoom level that was current when the bookmark was created.
In addition, bookmarks can be made to perform other tasks, such as linking to a web URL or opening a document (in any format) on an intranet. To change what a bookmark will do, having created it, right-click the bookmark and choose Properties, then click on the Actions tab. Highlight the default action (”Go to a page in this document”) and click Delete. Choose an alternative action from the drop-down menu labelled “Select Action” and click the Add button.
Finally, having spent some time preparing bookmarks to make life easier for your audience, wouldn’t it be a shame if they don’t actually see them because their bookmarks panel is not open! Luckily, Adobe have thought of this.
Before distributing your PDF file, choose Properties from the File menu and click on the “Initial View” tab. Next, from the “Navigation Panels” drop-down, choose “Bookmarks Panel and Page”. This will ensure that, when the user opens your document, their bookmarks panel will also open.
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February 11th, 2008 admin
Wicker furniture is a staple for many different types of homes. This kind of furnishing is unique in that it suits a vast variety of styles and designs. Whether you live in a modern dwelling or a rustic home, wicker furniture is the ideal addition to your space.
The reason that wicker furniture is suitable for so many different types of homes is its versatile nature. The woven design is ideal for adding texture to any space and the natural material is warm and inviting. Wicker furniture offers the perfect combination of form and function.
A cottage home is the ideal spot for this kind of casual furnishing. I almost expect to find wicker furniture in a quaint little cottage style home. The relaxed feel and intricate texture of the woven chairs and tables is wonderful for this modest house design. Bringing this element into the cottage dwelling is the best way to complete the warm and inviting feel that you have when entering this kind of home.
Not all wicker furniture is so quaint. Majestic Victorian homes are often adorned with this woven furnishing. The natural wicker material is typically covered with a crisp, white paint. The tables are commonly embellished with a charming fabric that boasts an attractive but understated design.
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January 24th, 2008 admin
If you are a business owner chances are you already know you should have a disaster recovery plan. If you’re like most, the thought of developing the plan is overwhelming, not to mention time consuming.
The reality is you cannot afford to not develop a disaster recovery plan. Should disaster strike and you were to lose all of your valuable data, there’s a very real possibility that you would never be able to fully recover.
Developing a disaster recovery plan is not as difficult as you might think. With a little help from disaster recovery planning shareware, you can develop a customized plan for you business in less than a day.
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November 12th, 2007 admin
When it comes to having a wireless keyboard, in most cases the individual will need to utilize a keyboard that is going to most effectively and efficiently allow the individual to function using the keyboard. An ergonomic wireless keyboard will make the user most comfortable using the keyboard in a work or home office or computer area environment. This helps to ensure that the individual will be able to function at full capacity for a greater period of time because of the comfort of the keyboard.
One of the biggest threats to individuals that use computers is carpel tunnel syndrome, which attacks the wrists and hands of the individual when they are too repeatedly and often used in the same manner. An ergonomic wireless computer will more comfortable allow the hands to rest on the keyboard and assign each hand a specific section to type on while the keyboard is being used. As a result, the individual will be putting less stress and strain on their hands as they type. This helps to decrease the risk of the individual to carpel tunnel.
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