Ironically, while Web pages have become more flexible and capable over the past few years, Web creation tools have become increasingly more complex. Tom Negrino's Macromedia Contribute 2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, however, teaches those who are not Web experts how to build and maintain Web pages with Macromedia Contribute 2, which returns easy Web page editing to the many business and academic users for whom other Web creation tools have become too difficult to use effectively. With Contribute 2, anyone can add content to Web sites, without the possibility of accidentally breaking the site. Now in its second edition, this visual, task-based reference has been revised to cover all of Contribute's newest features, including all-new Mac OS X compatibility; improved speed and user response; the ability to connect to sites securely; and Flash Paper, a new way to publish any document on the Web (Windows-only). New PayPal Merchant Tools let any small business owner add the ability to accept credit cards on their website with just a few clicks. With the capable guidance of veteran Visual QuickStart author and Macworld contributing editor, Tom Negrino, you'll soon master how to build Web pages, edit page content, create tables, use Macromedia Dreamweaver templates, work with external documents, manage sites with Dreamweaver, customize Contribute, and more. Like all Visual QuickStart Guides, this book is broken up into bite-sized tasks to help you solve problems and answer questions quickly. Whether you're a beginner looking to learn Contribute 2 from the ground up or an experienced user who just needs a quick refresher course on the product's newest features, Macromedia Contribute 2 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is an all-access pass to just the information you need.

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Explains how to use the Web authoring program to design a site using text, links, graphics, tables, frames, forms, and plug-ins.

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This unique PDF-only book is the ideal primer for web developers just getting started with Flash Media Server 2 (FMS2) and Adobe's Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP) for streaming media, and for anyone doing administrative work with Flash-related content. It's not a reference, but a step-by-step guide for using Flash Media Server 2, with chapters that focus on specific aspects of the server and how they work. What makes Flash Media Server 2 so different? You'll discover that, in contrast to conventional web servers, FMS2 includes open-socket server technology that's stays connected to stream audio, video, and text in real time. Connect to this server using RTMP, and build applications using three flavors of ActionScript: ActionScript 2.0, Client side ActionScript, and Server side ActionScript. Don't worry. With Learning Flash Media Server 2 and a little Flash and ActionScript experience, you'll be up to speed in no time. The first chapter takes you though the installation procedures on Windows and Linux, explains how to organize your development environment using Apache web server, how to test your FMS2 connections, and how to use the management console. Then you'll dive right into the whys and hows of: Recording and playing back streaming audio and video Camera and microphone settings Non-persistent client-side remote shared objects Two-way audio-video communications Broadcasting and server-side bandwidth control Working with server-side files: the file class Server-side shared objects Server-side audio and video streaming Server-side loadvars, xml and working with configuration files At the heart of every chapter is a core set of code that shows the minimum requirements needed for different procedures. Beyond that, Learning Flash Media Server 2 provides you with plenty of options for using FMS2. It's a whole new world of media, and this book puts you right at the doorstep. Ready to enter?

Rather than cover each and every option available in PowerPoint, this concise guide takes users through a single presentation and demonstrates the quickest, easiest, most effective way to communicate ideas, starting with creating a slide and continuing through formatting charts and tables.