Description:
Adobe PageMill 3 F/X and Design teaches you how to use the Adobe PageMill 3.0 program for Windows and Macintosh to create lively, interesting Web sites. Although the updated program supports neither Dynamic HTML nor cascading style sheets, it does offer the site-management features of SiteMill. Formerly a separate product, SiteMill comes with Adobe Photoshop LE for image editing, making PageMill 3.0 even more valuable than previous versions. The author first teaches you how to plan your Web site as you consider your audience, content, resources, and navigational features. You then learn how to add and format text and add a variety of background and icon graphics to your pages. Next, the authors delve into designing pages with tables, frames, and forms and making more interactive pages (filled with GIF animations, Shockwave, QuickTime movies, sound, and Java applets). With your Web site basically done, you work on attracting an audience by, for example, registering your site with search engines, tracking hits, using META tags, and simply adding your URL to your organization's logo, ads, and other output. You also use the newly integrated (and enhanced) SiteMill features to tackle site-maintenance issues such as link maintenance, searching and replacing, and error fixing. The specialized final chapters focus on creating Web storefronts using Open Market's (formerly ICentral's) ShopSite Express and on extending PageMill's functionality via plug-ins and .pdf files. A full-color section shows sample PageMill sites created by various designers. An appendix lists online resources for graphics, animations, movies, sound files, JavaScripts, and Java applets. The included CD-ROM comes with trial software, JavaScripts, Java applets, and graphics, as well as files for the book's exercises. These projects are accompanied by thorough discussions of features, artistic guidance, technical advice, and screen shots. --Kathleen Caster
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