books by friends of ED     books:       Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to Podcasting (Solutions)16 reviews Michael Geoghegan, Dan Klass friends of ED, 2005 Read This Book Before You Buy ANYTHING Yes, it's true. I'm contemplating adding a podcast to my blog. So, I bought "Podcast Solutions" on Amazon and read it, front to back. This is a very useful book, and it comes with a CD of demo software you can use for podcasting. Anyone who is thinking about podcasting should read this book BEFORE they start purchasing any equipment. One of the most valuable things I found in this book was ...             Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 836 reviews David Powers friends of ED, 2005 Excellent book to set up dynamic pages in Dreamweaver using php I am a frontpage user that has set up static pages in a web site. I needed to move from static pages to dynamic pages using a database. I couldn't use PHP with FrontPage so I switched to Dreamweaver and needed a book that covered both dynamic pages and Dreamwaver. This book walked me through setting up the environment to have Dreamweaver work with Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin. I am ...             Foundation Flash Cartoon Animation (Foundation)8 reviews Tim Jones, Allan Rosson, ... friends of ED, 2007 Stretch beyond the mechanics of the Flash tools There are many books about cartoon animation in Flash. What sets this book apart from the rest is the approach the authors have taken to make this book much more than just another step-by-step book about drawing and animating characters. Foundation Flash Cartoon Animation is for the animator who needs to stretch beyond the mechanics of the Flash tools and perfect the decision-making process ...             Macromedia Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference20 reviews Jen deHaan, Sham Bhangal, ... friends of ED, 2003 A programmers perspective I am a former programming teacher and I have a style to teach my students the most UNDERSTANDABLE way to do something not just how to do it. This text/reference achieves that purpose. If you have an understanding of Flash (which you should have before getting into scripting see Weinman books) then this book will serve you well. There are other books on scripting - great books - such as Moock's ...             Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation, Second Edition12 reviews Owen Briggs, Steven Champeon, ... friends of ED, 2004 Excellent Great for CSS beginers, I found everything here I needed to know to get started.             Extending Macromedia Flash MX 2004: Complete Guide and Reference to JavaScript Flash4 reviews Todd Yard, Keith Peters friends of ED, 2004 Great book for teaching how to create Extensions If you are an advanced Flash user, Extending Flash MX 2004 may be just the right book for you. Written by veteran Flash developers Keith Peters (bit-101) and Todd Yard (ego7), this book introduces you to the world of extending Flash MX 2004 by teaching you how to create custom functions and features for the Flash MX 2004 authoring environment. At first I had never heard about 'Extending' ...             The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS, Ajax, and PHP22 reviews David Powers friends of ED, 2007 This Book Saved Me! I'm currently taking a class in PHP/MySQL and it's use in eCommerce, and this book has really helped me along the way! The author shows you the ways in which Dreamweaver can help you to reduce your development time, but still produced some really great, dynamic sites. He goes into detail on some of the code as well, which is helpful. Additionally, the author is very honest and recommends other ...             Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance9 reviews Jim Thatcher, Andrew Kirkpatrick, ... friends of ED, 2006 Web Accessibility - It's all in one place! Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance is the perfect reference for any site development team. Everything you've wanted to know about Accessibility and the Web is here in a single text. Each member of the team will find necessary information and practical solutions in one or more of the thorough discussions here. For the designer/developer who works alone, Web ...             Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook (Pioneering Series)51 reviews Dan Cederholm friends of ED, 2004 Simple yet Thorough Through simple illistrations and small code snippets this book covers pretty much what one would need to know in order to create great web 2.0 sites.             Processing: Creative Coding and Computational Art (Foundation)5 reviews Ira Greenberg friends of ED, 2007 Great tutorial on a simple language that produces beautiful computer art This is a very good book on the Processing language, which is an object-oriented languaged based on Java that is used for computer art. It allows computer artists to produce attractive computer-generated art without having to become experts on the Java language, Java3D, Java2D, and all of the other associated Java multimedia APIs. The Processing language's home page has considerable tutorial ...             The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development (The Essential Guide)1 review Chris Allen, Wade Arnold, ... friends of ED, 2008 A Guide to the Moving Target I saw one copy of this at Powell's Technical Books in Portland yesterday, and picked it up, figuring it was new. It was--just published in the last few weeks. I haven't delved into it as much I would like, but that doesn't matter here because I carefully reviewed the contents before purchase. So: why buy this book? If you're working with Flash and ActionScript 3.0 currently, you know the Flash ...             Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 Zero to Hero2 reviews Joyce J. Evans, Charles E. Brown friends of ED, 2003 What a great resource to insert creative ideas to websites This book really helped me out with learning how to implement creative thoughts/ideas into a working navigation system. When read, it sounds like the authors are right there walking you through each and every step you need to understand and master FireworksMX 2004. As you read through the book, you'll find a lot of helpful tips that are in each section. I almost liked reading the tips rather than ...             Flash 3D Cheats Most Wanted4 reviews Aral Balkan, Josh Dura, ... friends of ED Ltd, 2003 Good golly This has to be about the best book I have ever seen. The 3D cheats in it are amazing -- and you surely wouldn't know you were cheating. There are some incredibly insightful techniques, and some more staple things if you're not quite steady on your feet yet. I think I am, but this book showed me how much more there was to know!             Transitions2 reviews Jerome Turner, Stuart Bass A.C.E, ... friends of ED, 2003 Loved It - Hated One Thing! Loved the content. A great book. Not how to do it, but more of a look into the minds of some great editors. One major flaw is a result of a great idea - gone wrong. Text is presented over image backgrounds. This makes for tired eyes at the end of a long read. In a few cases, there is black text on very dark background. You have to want to know what it says to put the effort into reading ...             Foundation Flash CS3 Video (Foundation)1 review Tom Green, Adam Thomas friends of ED, 2008 Excellent coverage of video effects, talking haeds, and fullscreen HD FriendsOfEd Foundation Flash CS3 Video is an excellent book, with a lot of solid detail. It covers a lot of territory, as far as techniques that someone can use. Other Flash video books cover a lot more video production and encoding than this book does. But if you are doing any video with alpha channel production, fullscreen, mp4, or cameras, this is the right book for you. That's where this book ...             Foundation Photoshop 63 reviews Colin Smith, Al Ward, ... Friends of Ed, 2001 Foundation Photoshop 6 0 - Excellent Resource I've had Photoshop for over a year. I've spent most of that time being frustrated with the program. I bought Foundation Photoshop 6 a little over a month ago and am now learning in leaps and bounds. Foundation Photoshop 6 is truly excellent for beginners, providing easily understood instructions, explanations and exercises. With this book, anyone can learn to create amazing graphics. I ...             Rich Media StudioLab: Video and Sound in Flash - with Premiere, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Cubase, ...1 review Tia Aleo, Kristian Besley, ... Friends of Ed, 2001 How video and sound can be integrated into Flash!! This book will do exactly what they said wasn't possible by illustrating how video and sound can be integrated into your Flash presentations, placing you at the extreme edge of creative web design. The application of such tools as AfterEffects, QuickTime, SoundForge and Wildform test the boundaries of Flash and suggest ways to take sound and video beyond Flash and into the realms of Shockwave. ...             Podcast Solutions: The Complete Guide to Audio and Video Podcasting, Second Edition (Solutions)2 reviews Michael Geoghegan, Dan Klass friends of ED, 2007 The perfect book for all podcasters. Yes that's right, this is the perfect book for any and all podcasters. If you are a podcaster, or want to be one or just want to find out what it's all about buy this book. The title says it all; Podcast Solutions. Chock full of info, written concisely, humorously, intelligently, informatively and in language that anyone can understand (even me) this is the one book to buy on the subject. ...             Revolutionary Final Cut Pro 2 Digital Film Making with Planning, Shooting, Workflow, Capturing Video, FX, ...2 reviews Jerome Turner, George Kingsnorth, ... Friends of Ed, 2001 Want to direct? Want to edit? Then this is the book for you. I've made 8 shorts now...and I wish I had this book 2 years ago! I've bought dozens of books over the last 3 years but this is the first one that's been wrote by real filmakers. How do I know? There are REAL tips in it. I mean those ones that come from really making a film...not the same moron advice that everyone gives. There's a real good case study too. It ...             CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions106 reviews Andy Budd, Simon Collison, ... friends of ED, 2006 Awesome This book is helpful. 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