#22696
How To Create Ghosted Text Effects With Adobe Photoshop
This Adobe web tutorial will show you how to create cool ghosted style text effects to jazz up your text.
#22695
How To Create Indented Text Effects With Adobe Photoshop
This Adobe web tutorial will show you how to create indented style text effects to jazz up your text.
#22697
How To Create Plastic Text Effects With Adobe Photoshop
This Adobe web tutorial will show you how to create plastic style text effects to add some cool effects to your text.
#25535
How to Link from an HTML Page to a Specific Page in PDF File 
HTML pages can contain links to PDF files that enable you to view the files by using an Adobe Acrobat 4.0-or-later product from within Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can also view the files by using the Acrobat product as a helper application in which PDF files appear in a separate Acrobat window. By default, the PDF file opens to the first page. To open the PDF file to a specific page, you can use named destinations in the PDF file. You can also target an HTML link to a specific PDF page by adding the page number to the end of the URL in the link. When you target an HTML link to a specific PDF page, however, the link works only when you view the PDF file within the browser.
Adobe (2005). Design>Web Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#22591
How to Open a PDF With Highlighted Words 
The goal: to launch Acrobat Reader from an external application, automatically highlighting some words.
PDFzone (2003). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#22258
How to Put a Web Browser on a PowerPoint Slide
A procedural guide for incorporating a web interface into PowerPoint slides.
William Horton Consulting (2001). Presentations>Graphic Design>Software>Microsoft PowerPoint
#31473
How to Select Your Web Conferencing Tool
New conferencing and collaboration solutions are being announced at the pace of one or more tools per week. New versions and upgrades are promoted even more frequently, and in this avalanche of "this is the best, don't look anywhere else" claims, it is hard to distinguish the good from the average. How should you select your web conferencing tool? Which companies are more reliable and how do you find out? How can you be sure you will not be disappointed? These are tough questions to answer, as there are a million vendors out there and an army of supposed experts all claiming to have the best solution while offering different ones.
Good, Robin. Communication World Bulletin (2004). Articles>Web Design>Videoconferencing>Software
#13708
How to Use FrontPage to Design a Corporate Intranet
Microsoft FrontPage is used extensively in small and medium-sized companies to create both Intranet and Internet Web sites, even though professional Web designers turn up their noses at it. This article reviews some of the factors that led to its widespread usage, and gives some pointers to non-professional webmistresses.
Yelverton, Bonnie. Usability Interface (2002). Design>Web Design>Software>FrontPage
#24413
HTML Conversion Tools: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
The Internet has taken the world by storm. It is now one of the most widely used sources of information available. Every day high-technology companies are finding new ways to use the Internet for advancement in their fields. Though getting a perfect conversion without added steps is the dream for all writers, this is not possible. HTML Conversion tools such as HTML Transit 2.0, Web Publisher 1.1, and FrontPage can help decrease the time needed to make great looking paper documents into great looking web pages. The tool a company chooses should be based on its needs, budget, and the time allowed for tweaking.
Laurent, J. Suzanna and Candie McKee. STC Proceedings (1998). Articles>Web Design>HTML>Software
#26212
HTML Conversion Tools: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
The documentation conversion tool market is relatively new, but several vendors have established reputations in the market.
Laurent, J. Suzanna and Candie D. McKee. STC Orange County (1998). Presentations>Web Design>Software>HTML
#15142
HTML Editing Tools Come of Age
Compares and contrasts three HTML editing tools: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage, and Adobe GoLive.
Doyle, Michael J. Intercom (2001). Design>Software>Web Design
#14258
Human Factors in Software Development: Models, Techniques, and Outcomes
We present the results of a survey designed to identify ways that human factors engineers have been successfully involved in software projects. Surveys describing successful and unsuccessful outcomes were returned by 14 human factors engineers and 21 software and documentation engineers at Hewlett Packard. In addition to describing the type of involvement and techniques used, respondents were also asked to define what they considered to be a successful outcome and give their views on what factors contribute to success or failure. The results of this study suggest ways in which the human factors/R&D partnership can be more effective in current development scenarios.
Lundell, Jay and Mark Notess. ACM SIGCHI (1991). Design>Human Computer Interaction>Software
#18956
I have a 40-page PDF file that I 'd like to create several hyperlinks to -- each going to a different page within that document.
PDFzone (2003). Design>Publishing>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#21960
Stuck for design ideas? Try messing around with plug-in filters for Illustrator.
Kvern, Olav Martin. Adobe Magazine (1995). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Illustrator
#25423
For the same reason a doctor uses different types of scissors or scalpels for specific cases, or a handyman carries different types of screwdrivers, a smart designer will have the tools that are necessary to complete any design task that might arise. In many ways Photoshop and Illustrator seem to be exactly alike, but they aren't.
Golding, Mordy. Illustrator World (2005). Articles>Graphic Design>Software
#30074
Implementing New Desktop Publishing Tools
When faced with having to respond to increased demands for online documentation using outdated tools, the technical writing staff of Hughes Network Systems (HNS) realized the need for a whole suite of state-of-the art tools and techniques. The challenge lay in convincing management to spend the time and money to acquire them. By coupling an understanding of their own needs as well as those of their customers with an appreciation for the HNS corporate culture, the writers were able to effect a strategy that guaranteed success.
Lipkin, Regina M. STC Proceedings (2001). Articles>Document Design>Software>Case Studies
#20506
With a little forethought, placing text in InDesign becomes almost effortless.
Adobe (2003). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#25921
Harness the power of scripts to automate common tasks in InDesign.
Kloskowski, Matt. Mac Design Magazine (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#22764
InDesign CS has introduced a large number of changes in scripting. Some things are new, some are simple changes in terminology, and some are changes that will break existing scripts. This is a guide to some of these changes, and is designed primarily to help in moving scripts written for version 2.0.2 to CS.
Stanley, Shane. Scripting Matters (2004). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#26016
If you approach InDesign as you did your former page layout application, you may be missing out on some features that will make your life easier.
White, Terry. InDesign User Group (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#25620
InDesign Tools Palette, Part 1
This is the first of several tutorials covering InDesign CS' tool palette. It covers the Selection tools, the Pen tool and the Type tool. It also gives tips and trick on how to make selections in InDesign.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Software>Graphic Design>Adobe InDesign
#26559
InDesign Tutorial: Advanced Typographical Controls
Find out how to use Adobe's single line and paragraph composer, hyphenation settings and other typographical controls.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Software>Document Design>Adobe InDesign
#26011
InDesign Tutorial: Design With Character - Character Style Sheets
Character Style Sheets can be real time savers for designers especially in the creation of long or multi-page documents. Character Style Sheets are simply recorded format that you can then use in your design at will. Consistency is one of the principles that designers must follow. Character Sheets help the designer so he doesn't have to apply manually the same type of formatting over and over again throughout the document.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#25420
InDesign Tutorial: Setting up a Document
Let's start with some basics. Here you will learn how to create a new document, add pages and other basic functions. A second tutorial will follow to complement this one.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#25958
InDesign Tutorial: The Paragraph Palette
With this tutorial you will learn how to use InDesign's Paragraph Palette. Here is an explanation of most of InDesign's Paragrah Palette's functions which should arm you with enough knowledge to do most design tasks you might need to do while laying out a design document.
Bruno, Elisabetta. Designorati (2005). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
