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The increasing use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is changing the website design process. To meet the rising needs of CSS-conscious designers, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX includes many new and improved CSS-related features. With these new features, you can plan for future updates, build...
In last month's article I led off with the same quotation from Yeats. At the risk of seeming culturally challenged, I'll lead off with it again for the second treatment of how masks function in Fireworks, simply because it is so apt.
This article explains how to completely change the graphical appearance of (i.e., 'to skin') the V2 ProgressBar component. Before we begin, a warning: the techniques described in this article apply to the ProgressBar and to many other V2 components, but not to all. Some components requ...
For those not familiar with web services, they are a way for servers to exchange messages with each other using XML standards. Despite the extreme hype, web services do not enable you to do anything that was not previously possible. Since the earliest versions of ColdFusion, CF develop...
Recently in a Shockwave3D project, I had some problems with the modelsUnderRay command. More precisely, modelsUnderRay seemed to have some problems of its own. Occasionally it just didn't give the correct result, it would miss a model somehow. In the particular application I was buildi...
In the world or architecture, as many of the designers among MX Developer's Journal's readership are well aware, there's a wonderfully erudite theory, with a equally wonderfully dumb name: Bigness.
It is wholly unprecedented in the (brief) history of blogging: with a $3.4 billion business deal in play, the Macromedia bloggers nonetheless remained determined to continue their commitment to avoiding a 'legal blackout' interfering unduly with the Macromedia commitment to communicate...
If one of the true signs of a vibrant developer community is an active blogosphere surrounding a technology, then the MX suite of technologies certainly passes that test with flying colors. In case you're not yet actively blogging yourself, MXDJ brings you here a comprehensive selectio...