If you share your photos on Flickr, you are an active user of Web 2.0. If you have a Facebook or MySpace page, download video from YouTube, subscribe to RSS feeds, or use Wikipedia, you’re also participating in Web 2.0. Web 2.0 describes a new generation of the web, designed around content created by users. High-tech industry people describe Web 2.0 sites as “collaborative”, “participatory and interactive”, “personalized”, or “community-driven” because these sites enable people to go beyond simply reading content provided by others. People can proactively share their interests and ideas with other site visitors.
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Why are style guides so frequently created, but so rarely successful? All too often, businesses ask for a style guide as a means to create a common look and feel, in the belief that it will solve usability problems and establish consistency between applications – only to be disappointed in the results. Even if such a style guide is followed carefully, the resulting interfaces may not meet usability goals.. This paper explores strategies for creating a style guide that is more than a simplistic rules book. By making the style guide part of the process, it can be used to promote a shared vision, to help the product meet business and usability requirements for consistency and…it may actually be used.
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The instructions and explanations in this guide assume that you understand how to operate your Macintosh computer. You should, for example, know how to choose, select, launch, and drag by using your mouse. In addition, you should also understand how the desktop, windows, dialog boxes, buttons and file/folders work within the Macintosh environment. For more information about these items, please refer to your Macintosh User?s Guide.
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The instructions and explanations in this guide assume that you understand how to operate your Macintosh computer. You should, for example, know how to choose, select, launch, and drag by using your mouse. In addition, you should also understand how the desktop, windows, dialog boxes, buttons and file/folders work within the Macintosh environment. For more information about these items, please refer to your Macintosh User?s Guide.
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Doc-To-Help makes it possible to write once, and publish many different deliverables. Technical communicators, Help authors, policy writers, and others can author any type of information in Microsoft® Word or HTML, and publish a variety of ways — to the web, in Help systems, or printed manuals. The unmatched flexibility of Doc-To-Help allows you to author in the environment of your choice. Integrated toolbars and dialog boxes in Microsoft Word and popular HTML editors allow you to visually create Help systems by defining elements that include topic links, conditional text, pop-ups, and glossary terms.
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This tutorial will provide a basic introduction to creating a graphic left side border background for Web pages with plenty of screenshots and helpful tips along the way. September 2007: Updated for Photoshop CS3 with all new CS3 screenshots and additional tips! Although this tutorial is geared for making Web graphics with Photoshop CS3, it also works for Photoshop 5.5 and above. This tutorial will also work with PaintShop Pro 6 and above, too.
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I’ve been a 3D Studio MAX user for over 5 years. It’s what I’ve always used. Once you’ve used a piece of software for so long, it seems difficult, sometimes impossible, to convert. The truth of the matter is that once you understand the basics of 3D graphics, the core of the problem becomes the specific software interfaces.
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LAN Manager Enhanced Starting LAN Manager Enhanced Starting the Workstation Service and Logging On Additional Network Services Using the LAN Manager Screen Using CTRL+BREAK to Break Out of Network Requests Using Menus and Menu Commands View Menu Message Menu Con?g Menu Accounts Menu Help Menu Using Dialog Boxes Dialog Box Elements Getting Help from the LAN Manager Screen Viewing Network Resources Setting the Current Focus Viewing Shared Resources Network Paths Viewing Users on the Network Understanding User Accounts Viewing Information About User Accounts Changing Your Password Starting LAN Manager Services Stopping LAN Manager Services Pausing LAN Manager Services Continuing LAN Manager Services Pausing and Continuing
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