http://library.creativecow.net/tutorials/webdesign Creative COW Library of Web Design, tips, and strategies. en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:00 GMT PHP Script webmaster@creativecow.net webmaster@creativecow.net http://library.creativecow.net/hurwicz_michael/Edge-Animate-Review/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hurwicz_michael/Edge-Animate-Review.php Increasingly, web developers are being asked to create sites that are viewable on tablets and mobile devices, as well as desktops and laptops running Windows, OS X or Linux. One of the challenges in creating a site like that is animation. Flash, for many years the preferred cross-platform animation Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/hurwicz_michael/HTML5-Create-JS-Debugging/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hurwicz_michael/HTML5-Create-JS-Debugging.php Building on two previous tutorials on CreateJS for Flash Pro CS6, Creative COW leader Michael Hurwicz introduces interactivity (specifically, responding to a mouse click), debugging using the JavaScript "alert" statement, and assigning names to objects exported from Flash. Project files in Wed, 30 May 2012 00:02:15 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/hurwicz_michael/HTML5-Animate-JS/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hurwicz_michael/HTML5-Animate-JS.php Building on a previous introductory tutorial on CreateJS for Flash Pro CS6, Creative COW leader Michael Hurwicz shows how to modify the JavaScript exported from Flash, to change attributes such as position, speed, wait time, and color. Project files are included. Fri, 25 May 2012 17:38:39 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/hurwicz_michael/HTML5-Create-JS/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hurwicz_michael/HTML5-Create-JS.php Creative COW leader Michael Hurwicz provides a brief introduction to CreateJS, an extension for Adobe Flash Professional CS6 that allows you to export Flash projects as HTML and JavaScript, even on platforms that do not support the Flash Player. Thu, 17 May 2012 17:56:29 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/tashie_demetri/PHP_MySQL-Tutorial/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/tashie_demetri/PHP_MySQL-Tutorial.php Showing how to use PHP to access a MySQL database. Building a real world application, this tutorial is interesting in that it shows how to narrow a search based on 2 different criteria (2 different MySQL fields). Finally, this tutorial ends with giving complete code for an HTML page as well as the P Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:21:02 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/scartozzi_francesco/h264-matrox-webinar/1 http://library.creativecow.net/articles/scartozzi_francesco/h264-matrox-webinar.php In this pre-recorded webinar Francesco Scartozzi and Wayne Andrews discuss H.264. The webinar is focused on understanding H.264, the pain of using it in your creative workflow process, the market trends and the solution to the problems. There is also some great information on various codecs and how Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:42:12 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/williams_richard/photoshop-slices-into-dreamweaver-3.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/williams_richard/photoshop-slices-into-dreamweaver-3.php In part three of this video tutorial series, Richard Williams shows how to convert images to background images and put text over the top of them inside of Dreamweaver. Richard then applies CSS styling to the HTML text to match it with the design created in Photoshop. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:24:01 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/williams_richard/photoshop-slices-into-dreamweaver-2.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/williams_richard/photoshop-slices-into-dreamweaver-2.php In part two of this video tutorial series, Richard Williams explains how to export the rollover state of buttons from Photoshop and import them into Dreamweaver to then be applied to the site being designed from part one. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:39:12 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/williams_richard/photoshop-slices-into-dreamweaver-1.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/williams_richard/photoshop-slices-into-dreamweaver-1.php In part one of this video tutorial series, Richard Williams shows you the process of designing a website in Photoshop, exporting it as image slices and then importing the slices into Dreamweaver. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:35:24 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/williams_richard/spry_menu_explained.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/williams_richard/spry_menu_explained.php In this tutorial, CreativeCOW leader Richard Williams explains the principles of the Spry Menu and answers the most commonly asked questions. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:14:47 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mol_fernando/css_centered_layout.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/mol_fernando/css_centered_layout.php This tutorial from CreativeCOW leader, Fernando Mol explains the principles of how to create an horizontally centered layout using HTML and CSS. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:35:10 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/full-page-overlay.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/full-page-overlay.php In this tutorial you will learn how to create a full page pop-up window that overlays an existing html page. This technique is used often for displaying a video, movie file, picture, or form when a user clicks on an element in a web page. Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/designing-a-website-in-photoshop.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/designing-a-website-in-photoshop.php This Adobe Photoshop tutorial will show how to use Photoshop to design a website that will be exported as HTML and image slices. The web page can be brought into an HTML editor program such as Adobe Dreamweaver to be modified. This is an Adobe Photoshop web design tutorial showing how to design, cre Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/mysql-php-basics.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/mysql-php-basics.php Learn about MySQL and how to implement its functionality into your web site allowing you to create dynamic content built from databases. In this tutorial you will learn some basics of using MySQL, PHPMyAdmin, Database Management Systems, and how to display MySQL content in a web page. Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/embedding-quicktime-movies.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/embedding-quicktime-movies.php Learn the basics and advanced methods of embedding Quicktime Movies into your web site, blog or any html page. Find out what it takes to maintain cross platform compatibility when publishing all your Quicktime Videos. A more advanced technique of using Dreamweaver CS3 to embed your movie using Activ Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/embedding-flash-videos.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/embedding-flash-videos.php Overview of the different ways to create Flash Videos in Adobe CS3. In this tutorial you will learn the various methods of FLV and SWF Video creation in Adobe After Effects, Dreamweaver and Flash and learn the strengths and weaknesses of each method. Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/image-rollovers-in-dreamweaver.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/image-rollovers-in-dreamweaver.php In this Dreamweaver CS3 tutorial, Abraham explores the capabilities of Dreamweaver to create dynamic rollover functions on a web page. What before might have taken special scripting is easily accomplished through a few slight alterations of the rollover behaviors built into Dreamweaver. Part two of Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/html_css_basics_in_dreamweaver.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/chaffin_abraham/html_css_basics_in_dreamweaver.php This tutorial is designed to introduce the concepts of using CSS in Adobe Dreamweaver and HTML for web designers who are not familiar with CSS in web design. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet and is a system for adding styling to your web pages and web page content. Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/ITKVS2.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/ITKVS2.php Creative COW's Aharon Rabinowitz has completed a new DVD for the Creative COW Master Series, about every aspect of preparing your video for the web. Here's the Table of Contents. Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/ITKVS.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/ITKVS.php Creative COW's Aharon Rabinowitz has completed a new DVD for the Creative COW Master Series, about every aspect of preparing your video for the web. We at The Cow are very excited about it, so we asked Aharon to tell you about it. We've also included some of the trailers Aharon created in his inimit Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/wilson_tim/adobe_cs_pro.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/wilson_tim/adobe_cs_pro.php Tim Wilson recently spoke with Lonn Lorenz, the Creative Suite's product manager, and gives his thoughts on what the fuss about a point release for the Adobe Creative Suite is and concludes that premium version of Suite, offering more than enough reason to upgrade from the CS Standard, or from earli Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hurwicz_michael/cfmx_flash.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/hurwicz_michael/cfmx_flash.php Author/Web developer Michael Hurwicz examines Reality ColdFusion MX: Flash MX Integration by Ben Forta, Randy Drisgill, Dennis Baldwin, Matt Tatam, and Derek Lu. This book is published by Macromedia press. The book discusses goals, logic and development process behind four projects, for which full s Mon, 10 Mar 2003 08:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/gondek_mike/tt_livemotion_rev.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/gondek_mike/tt_livemotion_rev.php CreativeCOW leader, Mike Gondek examines a 3 DVD training series called Live Motion 2.0 by Steve Holmes and published by Total Training. Mon, 05 Aug 2002 07:00:00 GMT http://library.creativecow.net/articles/lindeboom_ron/golive_hotkeys.php http://library.creativecow.net/articles/lindeboom_ron/golive_hotkeys.php In this article, Ron Lindeboom shows newer and other GoLive users how to make GoLive act the way you want it to. Have you ever wished you could set the hot-key short-cuts the way you wanted instead of the way that the Adobe engineers set them? Well you can do it and it's very easy to do. Here's how. Fri, 24 Aug 2001 07:00:00 GMT