Director
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 4: Creating a Testing Environment Using MAMP and Dreamweaver
by Kim Cavanaugh - 02-Dec-08
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There's little doubt that the fine, free, open source blogging package available from WordPress has enjoyed astounding success. With downloads of well over 50 million, the PHP, MySQL, and Apache powered WordPress package is currently the world's most popular blogging package and is in use by literally millions of designers and developers (and do-it-yourselfers)around the world.
The goal of this series of articles is to show you how to take what is already an awesome package—including an almost limitless supply of free design themes—and customize the look and feel of a WordPress site to meet your goals. Through this series you'll be learning how to use some of the design tools from Adobe, such as Fireworks and Dreamweaver, as well as free open source browser plugins to modify the design of a WordPress installation.
In this, the fourth article in the series, you'll be learning how to prepare to create a fully customized WordPress theme of your own. This time around the design tool is Dreamweaver CS4. In this article you'll see how to create a design environment for Dreamweaver that allows you to greatly streamline the process of customizing WordPress designs.
The Customizing a WordPress Blog Series:
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 1: Editing Header Images
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 2: Examining WordPress Themes with the
Firebug Extension for FF
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 3: Examining WordPress Themes with the
Web Developer's Extension
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 4: Creating a Testing Environment Using MAMP and Dreamweaver
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 5: Editing WordPress Themes in Dreamweaver CS4
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 6: Using the Snapshot Technique for Editing WordPress Themes
Customizing a WordPress Blog - Part 7: Editing the Themes with Fireworks CS4
Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page - Part Five
by Sheri German - 18-Mar-08
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If you've been following along with the Chicago CSS Starter Page series, you're almost to the finish line. There are just two tasks left to accomplish: add the horizontal navigation bar, and check the layout for cross browser issues, particularly those that relate to Internet Explorer.
At the end of this tutorial, you'll have a completed layout that you can modify with your own branding to use in a client or personal project.
This tutorial includes starter files as well as a folder with the completed layout.
The Developing a CSS Starter Page Series:
Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page - Part 1
Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page - Part 2
Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page - Part 3
Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page - Part 4
Chicago: Developing a CSS Starter Page - Part 5
An Introduction to Director MX 2004 - Part 3
by Rob Williams - 07-Jan-05
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Director is one of the most powerful - and complicated - new media tools available today. The complexity of the application, unfortunately, often scares new users away from the endless possibilities. In this series we'll explore Director from the ground up in steps that are both informative and easy to follow. In Part 3, we begin to explore basic interactivity using playback control.
An Introduction to Director MX 2004 - Part 2
by Rob Williams - 06-Dec-04
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Director is one of the most powerful (and complicated) new media tools available today. The complexity of the application, unfortunately, often scares new users away from the endless possibilities. In this series we'll explore Director from the ground up in steps that are both informative and easy to follow. In Part 2 we take a look at project planning, cast libraries, and the basics of sprites.
An Introduction to Director MX 2004 - Part 1
by Rob Williams - 16-Sep-04
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Director, despite its gradual fade from the spotlight in recent years, is far from becoming an obsolete development tool. In the first part of this series, we take a look at the history of the product, why it's still important to the modern developer, and begin to explore the main interface of Director MX 2004.
Director and Flash: The Right Tool For The Right Project
by Rob Williams - 03-Sep-04
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Flash is a fantastic technology, but is it really the best multimedia tool for every project? Director, for most, is a dinosaur that doesn't fit the modern world of the web, but is it really obsolete? An interesting look at the two multimedia technologies provides some unexpected answers to these far too common questions.
Director's DVD Event Manager and Local Connections
by Tom Green,Rob Williams - 16-Jun-04
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In the previous part of this series, we looked at how to incorporate Shockwave DVD playback with HTML/CSS based webpages. This time we're going to push the envelope even further to see how Flash movies can be brought into the DVD mix, to create even more interesting and unique web experiences.
Using Director's DVD Event Manager: Part 2
by Tom Green - 27-Apr-04
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Placing DVD content in a web page- especially one driven by CSS- was always an interesting discussion. No more. In this tutorial we show you how to add interactive DVD content into your web pages using Director MX 2004.
Using the Director DVD Event Manager in Director MX 2004: Part 1
by Tom Green - 12-Apr-04
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Adding video to your web page is easy. Now how about DVD-based content that changes a web page at precise points in a DVD video? The DVD Event Manager added to the new Director MX 2004 gives you this ability.
A Tour of Director MX 2004
by Tom Green - 08-Mar-04
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The new release of Director MX 2004 is a full upgrade of the application that defined the multimedia gold standard for several years. Faced with the coincidental tanking of the CD market and the rise of Flash, Director was in serious need of attention, or at least to be put out of its misery. Macromedia chose the first route and the results are impressive.
Don't Forget Director!
by Kelly Hajnik - 19-Jan-04
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Remember that old card game called Concentration? The one where you flip over cards and if they are the same, they stay flipped over, and if they are different, you put them back? Today we are going to build our own version in Director MX. This article is based on Director MX for OSX, if you are using a PC, your layout will be similar enough that you can still follow along and create Concentration fun!
