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Data at Work: Best practices for creating effective charts and information graphics in Microsoft Excel

... Stephen Few doesn't use pies and advises his readers against using them , 5 suggesting that they should be left to ... Show Me the Numbers : Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten . Burlingame , CA : Analytics Press , Second Edition . 2012 ...

The Unusually Useful Web Book

... Goooooooooogle▸ Result Page : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next The story - telling site Fray lets users focus when they're within a story by offering stripped down , linear navigation from start to finish . Whimsical images often replace the ...

More Eric Meyer on CSS

... ( tab - curve.gif ) bottom left no - repeat ; } Cleveland Eats : Matsu ... nothing quite like the taste of a fresh piece of suzuki ( sea bass ) or ... money , Matsu is at the head of the pack . It's so good , it beats out most of the San ...

Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide

... game design document . There are thousands of separate tasks to be tracked in a timeline / baseline document . These tasks can easily take up hundreds of pages in a project management chart constructed , for example , in Microsoft ...

Designing Virtual Worlds

... Achaea LLC . Founded in 1996 in San Francisco , Achaea designs and produces some of the world's most popular and successful com- mercial text MUDs , including Achaea , Dreams of Divine Lands ( http : // www . achaea.com ) , Aetolia ...

Chris Crawford on Game Design

... list of the old classics that got the industry started . There are plenty of ... vertical screen structure of the game arose more from technical ... game { 18 } SOME MILESTONE GAMES VII.

Fundamentals of Game Design

... documents for yourself, to record ideas that you might want to work on in the future. GAME. TREATMENT. DOCUMENT. A game treatment document presents the game in a broad outline to someone who's already interested in it and wants to hear ...

Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose

Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose Nicole Fenton, Kate Kiefer Lee. Style. Chris Barr and The Senior Editors of Yahoo!. The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, and Creating Content for the Digital ...

The Content Strategy Toolkit: Methods, Guidelines, and Templates for Getting Content Right

... web writing best practices, and any deviations from the chosen style manual (for example, The Yahoo! Style Guide, The Associated Press Stylebook, or The Chicago Manual of Style). If the organization hasn't already defined the desired ...

Lingo!

Tab Julius. Movie Scripts Whereas a script attached to a sprite is used to ... up into manageable portions . You can create a thousand sprite scripts , so ... Break down Remember , both the " sprite script " and the " frame script " are ...

Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices

... Design , Alan Cooper , Robert Rei- mann , and David Cronin The Design of Everyday Things , Donald A. Norman Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products. FOR FURTHER READING 167 Presence Summary For Further Reading.

ColdFusion MX with Dreamweaver MX

David Golden. Category File Types / Editors Fonts Highlighting Invisible Elements New Document Panels Preview in Browser ... web browser you want to use to preview application pages . You are not restricted to the dominant browsers , such as ...

Design for Community

... online magazine Salon ( salon.com ) . Salon.com cranks out insightful journalism on a daily basis . It's even scooped mainstream media outlets on occasion . It's content has inspired debate countless times . salon.com BOOKS ARTICLE FINDER ...

Foundations of Digital Art and Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud

... and 9 o'clock positions are unselected. Figure 1.6 In Photoshop, you can make a circle by filling an elliptical selection with black color. Zoom in, and you'll see each black, square pixel that makes up the image. Paths anD VectoR gRaPhIcs ...

Game Character Development with Maya

... building small details into the geometry—you'll just use up processor power, meaning fewer polygons can be used elsewhere in the game. Use Figure 3.2 to guide ... 3.5 Remove any tiny triangles by using the Collapse. Muscle Line Mapping 91.

Secrets of Successful Web Sites: Project Management on the World Wide Web

... night . There's an upper limit on how much you can charge , and the chances of losing money in any month are fairly good . The upside in design is that you run a business with 10 % profits after taxes , you get to do exciting , creative ...

Techniques of Visual Persuasion: Create powerful images that motivate

... two- way street . As we will refer to a lot in this book , being persuaded is a choice the viewer makes . This means our efforts need to be focused first on attracting the attention of the viewer then delivering our message in such a ...

Photographers at Work: Essential Business and Production Skills for Photographers in Editorial, Design, and Advertising

... TWO-WAY STREET AND TAKES BOTH PARTIES TO MAKE A GOOD PICTURE. to begin so we ... book about Southeast Asia. This originally started when I did an Epson ... street stuff and have an amazing time. I was very nervous doing it, because ...

Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design

... Morrowind ( user interface design in RPGs ) , 158 Mortal Kombat ( movie version ) , 119 motivation for game design , 47 art - driven games , 52 designer - driven games , 48-49 entertainment , 52 license exploitation , 49-51 market ...

Core Techniques and Algorithms in Game Programming

Code design, data structures, design patterns, AI, scripting engines, 3D pipelines, texture mapping, and more: They're all covered here-in clear, coherent fashion and with a focus on the essentials that will have you referring back to this ...

I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life

In I, Avata r, Mark Stephen Meadows answers some of these questions, but more importantly, he raises hundreds of others in his exploration of avatars and the fascinating possibilities they hold.

Mac OS X Tiger Killer Tips: Mac OS X Tiger Killer PDF _1

... just enough to make them more accessible, and then add an accompanying screen capture if (a) it helps make the tip easier to understand, or (b) if the page just looks really boring without them. Is. there. any. UNIX ... UNIX, but don't worry— ...

Mac OS X v. 10.2 Jaguar Killer Tips

... just enough to make them more accessible , and then add an accompanying screen capture if ( a ) it helps make the tip easier to understand , or ( b ) if the page just looks really boring without them . Is there any UNIX ... UNIX , but don't ...

Photoshop 7 Down and Dirty Tricks

The book is not another rehash of masking, pixels, and file formats or resolution--it's nothing but the cool stuff that will make your client's (or boss's) jaw drop.

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004: Web Application Recipes

... Dreamweaver MX 2004 Web Application Recipes handy to answer the security question properly . 5. Download the Dreamweaver extension file and copy your unique serial ... 8. Accept the End User License Agreement to continue the installation . 9 ...

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 and Databases

... AssetSerial ( ASP : TEXTBOX ] Insert Record emmtinstance fleinstance > < body > < table > < tr > < td > < table > < tr > < mmtinstance : editable > < td > 578 x 293-28K / 8 sec Selection < td > Files Files Assets KrystalClear - AS Local ...

Maya Character Creation: Modeling and Animation Controls

... guide for placing the refer- ence bones.You want to manipulate the transforms on the reference bones to make them fit inside your model (see Figure 3.5).To make the polygon bones fit well, you will probably have to manipulate their ...

Maya 5 Fundamentals

Garry Lewis, Jim Lammers. With smooth skinning , vertices ( for polygonal character models ) ... Maya offers a rigid mesh smoother called a flexor to smooth the bent ... Tutorial : Binding the Character to the Skeleton Next , you actually bind ...

Maya 4.5 Fundamentals

... character models ) of the skin might be influenced by the position of ... Maya offers a rigid mesh smoother called a flexor to smooth the bent areas in this ... Tutorial : Binding the Character to the Skeleton Next we'll actually bind ...

Maya 2 Character Animation

Maya 2 Character Animation covers Maya's advanced features and is a real-world tutorial for serious users.

Designing a Digital Portfolio: DESIGNING DIG PORTFOLIO _p2

... portfolios, 83 DV codec, 151 DV files, 126 DVD-creation software, 188 DVD Maker, 188 DVD portfolios, 188, 191 DVD projects, 19 DVD-R format, 116 DVD services, 116 DVD Studio Pro, 188 DVDit, 188 DVDs distributing portfolio on, 72-74 and ...

The Adobe Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers: Adob Phot CS Book Digit PDF_1

... number your photos with a 1 to 4digit serial number, letters, or by date. In our example, we choose “1 Digit Serial Number” to have Photoshop automatically add a sequential number after the name. There's also a field near the bottom of ...

Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design

Advanced Game Design Ernest Adams, Joris Dormans. Design. Patterns. in. Games. The attempts to set up a design pattern language, as opposed to a design vocabulary ... patterns as generic. desiGn PaTTerns 151 Machinations Design Pattern ...

Designing with Web Standards

... Enkoder turns 2.0.4 Jeffrey Zeidman Presents , Web de fainment since 1995 . Don't Trust What You See in One Browser Alone Write valid CSS and test it in multiple browsers . Don't write invalid CSS that happens to work in a particular ...

HTML Artistry: More Than Code

... case , the most prac- tical solution would have been to use the standard black text against a white background to ... California Pizza Kitchen site does , however , serve as an exception to this theory . At occasional points in the site ...

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