XML: Visual QuickStart Guide, Second Edition

This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. It is considered an extensible language because its users define their own elements. Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured data across different information systems, particularly via local networks and the Internet.  This update to the bestselling “XML: Visual QuickStart Guide” uses concise instructions and plenty of screen shots to teach beginning users all they need to know to write XML, XSL, DTD, XML Schema, and more.  For anyone wanting to learn XML and its related technologies, this book is the most current, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow tutorial you’ll find today.  

The Dojo Toolkit: Visual QuickStart Guide

This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.The Dojo Toolkit is an open-source JavaScript toolkit for building Web applications so dynamic they jump off the page. Filled with special controls like calendars and menus, and special effects like wipes and fade-ins, Dojo is rapidly gaining popularity and is emerging as the toolkit of choice for Ajax applications. The Dojo Toolkit Visual QuickStart Guide covers the highlights of Dojo in detail and is the easiest way to get up and running quickly with Dojo.

Visual QuickStart Guide InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows

Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn! Users of Adobe InDesign will be impressed with the power, ease of use, and integration found in the new InDesign CS3, Adobe's page-design component of Creative Suite 3. Users will also find more robust file-placing capabilities, new Find features, and great new text and transparency effects, among other exciting features. Adobe InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide will highlight the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign. Using the task-based, visual approach that readers count on in the Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume introduces readers to all aspects of InDesign CS3. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, export files for a wide variety of purposes, and Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through InDesign and show you what to do. Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time. Page for page, the best content and value around.much more.

Visual QuickStart Guide Pinnacle Studio 11 for Windows

Pinnacle Studio 11 is the latest version of the industry leading home video editing tool aimed at the Windows consumer market. In Pinnacle Studio 11 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, veteran journalist and teacher Jan Ozer tackles Pinnacle Studio version 11 in classic and popular QuickStart style--with step-by-step instructions, plenty of illustrations, and straightforward language. Jan provides the skinny on all popular Studio 11 features like HD capture, editing and disc burning: Pinnacle Studio Plus edits native HDV or AVCHD footage and then authors HD DVD format discs that will play on the latest HD players; the new Scorefitter music generator which automatically generates soundtracks with 40 source tracks; new simplified web publishing features where users can now automatically post movies publicly on Yahoo! Videos and more. 

SQL, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)

SQL, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide) MySQL No Comments » # Publisher: Peachpit Press; 2 edition (May 12, 2005) # Language: English # ISBN-10: 0321334175 # ISBN-13: 978-0321334176 Book Description As dynamic, database-driven Web sites become the standard, more and more nonprogrammers just like yourself are being forced to work with database information and create and edit database objects. With SQL and this task-based guide to it, you can do it too–no programming experience req

Visual QuickStart Guide Illustrator CS3 for Windows and Macintosh

Now revised and updated, this book uses simple step-by-step instructions, loads of screen shots, and an array of time-saving tips and tricks, serving both as the quickest route to Illustrator CS3 mastery for new users, and a handy reference for more experienced designers. This edition of the Visual QuickStart Guide covers Illustrator CS3's newest features, including new tools in Live Color, enhancements to essential drawing tools and controls, improvements to the powerful Control panel, the new Eraser tool and Crop Area tool, and much more. A full-color section of inspiring Illustrator artwork and highly readable text create a winning combination for Illustrator users of every level. Adobe Illustrator is the indispensable vector drawing tool used by digital artists around the world. Illustrator CS3 provides those artists with powerful drawing tools, unparalleled typographic controls, and much more. With a slew of new features and tighter-than-ever integration with the rest of Adobe Creative Suite 3's design, graphics, and publishing tools, Illustrator CS3 promises to make designers' lives a whole lot easier—especially if they have this task-based guide!