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Taking
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Web
Design Essentials: For Adobe Photoshop 6, Illustrator 9, GoLive 5,
and LiveMotion Maria Giudice, Anita Dennis Paperback—128 pages, 2nd edition, May 2001 $28.00—Save $12.00 off the list price of $40.00 
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How
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This
is an explicit and detailed guide, an intelligent “how-to”
book for professionals. It lays the groundwork and creates context
by exploring essential concepts, defines terms that may be new or
unfamiliar, and then moves forward with practical software techniques.
All the while it is building on the existing knowledge and experience
of its professional design audience. Taking Your Talent to the Web
is based on the Populi Curriculum in Web Communications Design,
developed by Jeffrey Zeldman in cooperation with Populi, Inc., (populi)
and the Pratt Institute. The book's purpose is to guide traditional
art directors and print designers as they expand their existing
careers to include the new field of professional Web Design. 
Web
Design Essentials is part of Adobe's Professional Studio Techniques
series, which features wide-format books that lie flat on your desk
as you work through step-by-step instructions and peruse tips on
using Adobe's popular software titles. Books in this series are
very well written and illustrated. They tend to stay on the front
of the bookshelf for many years, long after version upgrades, often
remaining invaluable. 
Well,
maybe not everything, but there is much you can do with Flash 5,
and How To Do Everything with Macromedia Flash 5 can show you just
about all of it. It's an excellent book for those new to Flash or
with only some experience. Many concepts are well illustrated, using
screen shots to help explain the technique. Each chapter begins
with a bulleted list of the goals in the chapter, clearly outlining
the targets of discussion. For
designers with some Flash experience, the sections on "Assigning
ActionScripts to Buttons and Frames" and "Building Interactive
Movies" are where both Flash and this book begin to really
shine.