Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies provides a one-stop reference for users looking to harness the power of this Web building suite. The book covers each of the core applications in Studio MX including Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand, Fireworks, ColdFusion and, newly added to this edition, Contribute. Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies also contains coverage on using all the applications together in a single Web building project as well as an overview of the basics of good Web design. This book, like the product itself, should appeal to both professional and hobbyist Web builders who want a single product that can do the work of six or seven separate products.

Building a Web Site for Dummies, 2nd Edition

Building a Web Site for Dummies, 2nd Edition
388 Pages | PDF | English | 7.3 MB

If you're just getting your feet wet in Web site construction, the first big hurdle is figuring out where to start. Building a Web Site for Dummies lightens things up with humor and makes the challenge of building a site far less daunting.

This book doesn't zoom you right into coding HTML, although it covers the markup language quite well. Instead, it offers a much higher-level look at site design by examining the general questions of navigation principles, affiliation possibilities, building communications with your users, and other wide-ranging topics. For this reason, the book covers a lot of ground and offers a broad perspective on site design that transcends simple page coding.

A couple of the more useful sections on Web site tools and e-commerce cover useful utilities, such as NetMechanic, Statbot, and Spinwave. The chapter on e-commerce helps you get to know the ropes of selling stuff online, and points you to online malls, fulfillment services, and currency converters.

The companion CD-ROM contains evaluation versions of useful tools, such as Paint Shop Pro, HomeSite 4.5, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver. You won't find all of the knowledge that you seek to become a Web site guru in this book, but you will gain perspective and learn tons of useful tips and tricks. --Stephen W. Plain

Topics covered:

* Designing a Web site plan
* Web page construction 101
* Using scripts and applets
* Site navigation
* Graphics handling
* Multimedia
* Site tuning
* Using content providers
* Message boards
* E-commerce
* Affiliates programs
* Publicity


Product Description
Ever wanted to build your own Web site to express your views? Or maybe you want to set up an e-business? Now, not only will you be able to create your own space on the Web, but you can also make it look professional with Building a Web Site For Dummies. This resourceful guide lays down all the basics for getting started with creating a Web site for your club, team, family, or business.

This is the only book that walks aspiring Webmasters like you through all the steps of designing, building, publishing, publicizing, and updating a Web site without concentrating on a single tool. While reading this laid-back and down-to-earth guide, you will discover how to:

* Make your site easy to navigate
* Get optimum listing on Google
* Accept payment for an online business
* Gain feedback with message boards
* Add photos, sound, and video to your site

Along with this helpful guide is a CD-ROM that includes many exciting features to give you access to more Web site-creating tools:

* Adobe Photoshop CS and Adobe GoLive CS tryout versions
* Trial versions of Macromedia Flash MX 2004, ColdFusion MX Enterprise, Fireworks MX 2004, Dreamweaver MX 2004, and FreeHand MX
* Hemera Photo-Objects 500 Sampler

Under the wing of David Crowder, author of over 10 books and former Vice President of Data Processing with National Research Corporation, creating your own Web site has never been easier. Building a Web Site for Dummies provides plenty of hands-on guidance to turn you into a Web designer in no time!

GPS For Dummies

Getting into GPS

GPS stands for Global Positioning System. A special radio receiver measures the distance from your location to satellites that orbit the earth broadcasting radio signals. GPS can pinpoint your position anywhere in the world. Pretty cool, huh? Aside from buying the receiver, the system is free for anyone.
You can purchase an inexpensive GPS receiver, pop some batteries in it, turn it on, and presto! Your location appears on the screen. No map, compass, sextant, nor sundial is required. Just like magic. It's not really magic, though, but has evolved from some great practical applications of science that have come together over the last 50 years.

How GPS works

The intricacies of GPS are steeped in mathematics, physics, and engineering, but you don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand how GPS works. GPS is composed of three parts:

• Satellites

• Ground stations

• Receivers

Eyeing satellites

In GPS jargon, a satellite is the space segment. A constellation of 24 GPS satellites (21 operational and 3 spares) orbits about 12,000 miles above the Earth. The satellites zoom through the heavens at around 7,000 miles per hour. It takes about 12 hours for a satellite to completely orbit the Earth, passing over the exact same spot approximately every 24 hours. The satellites are positioned where a GPS receiver can receive signals from at least six of the satellites at any time, at any location on the Earth (if nothing obstructs the signals).
A satellite has three key pieces of hardware:

• Computer: This onboard computer controls its flight and other functions.

• Atomic clock: This keeps accurate time within three nanoseconds (around three-billionths of a second).

• Radio transmitter: This sends signals to Earth.

GPS satellites don't just help you stay found. All GPS satellites since 1980 carry NUDET sensors. No, this isn't some high-tech pornography-detection system. NUDET is an acronym for NUclear DETonation; GPS satellites have sensors to detect nuclear-weapon explosions, assess the threat of nuclear attack, and help evaluate nuclear strike damage.

The solar-powered GPS satellites have a limited life span (around 10 years). When they start to fail, spares are activated or new satellites are sent into orbit to replace the old ones. This gives the government a chance to upgrade the GPS system by putting hardware with new features into space.
GPS satellites transmit two types of radio signals: C/A-code and P-code. Coarse Acquisition (C/A-code) is the type of signal that consumer GPS units receive. Precision Code (P-code) provides highly precise location information. P-code is difficult to jam and spoof. The U.S. military is the primary user of P-code transmissions, and it uses an encrypted form of the data so only special receivers can access the information.

Covering ground stations

Ground stations are the control segment of GPS. Five unmanned ground stations around the Earth monitor the satellites. Information from the stations is sent to a master control station — the Consolidated Space Operations Center (CSOC) at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado — where the data is processed to determine each satellite's ephemeris and timing errors.

An ephemeris is a list of the predicted positions of astronomical bodies such as the planets or the Moon. Ephemerides (the plural of ephemeris) have been around for thousands of years because of their importance in celestial navigation. Ephemerides are compiled to track the positions of the numerous satellites orbiting the earth.

The processed data is sent to the satellites once daily with ground antennas located around the world. This is kind of like syncing a personal digital assistant (PDA) with your personal computer to ensure that all the data is in sync between the two devices. Because the satellites have small built-in rockets, the CSOC can control them to ensure that they stay in a correct orbit.

GPS receivers

Anyone who has a GPS receiver can receive the satellite signals to determine where he or she is located. Consumers can buy practical GPS receivers in sporting goods stores. They're easy to use and are mostly targeted for recreational and other uses that don't require a high level of location precision. The Big Three manufacturers in the consumer GPS market are Garmin, Magellan, and Lowrance. Consumer GPS receivers are reasonably priced, from less than $100 to $400 in the U.S.

How accurate is a GPS receiver?

According to the government and GPS receiver manufacturers, expect your GPS unit to be accurate within 49 feet (that's 15 meters for metric-savvy folks). If your GPS reports that you're at a certain location, you can be reasonably sure that you're within 49 feet of that exact set of coordinates.

GPS receivers tell you how accurate your position is. Based on the quality of the satellite signals that the unit receives, the screen displays the estimated accuracy in feet or meters. Accuracy depends on

• Receiver location

Obstructions that block satellite signals

Although survey-grade GPS receivers can provide accuracy of less than two centimeters, they are very specialized and expensive, require a lot of training, and aren't very portable. Their accuracy is achieved with DGPS and post-processing collected data to reduce location errors. The average GPS user doesn't need this level of precision.

Clouds, rain, snow, and weather don't reduce the strength of GPS signals enough to reduce accuracy. The only way that weather can weaken signals is when a significant amount of rain or snow accumulates on the GPS receiver antenna or on an overhead tree canopy.

Illustrator 10 For Dummies

Illustrator 10 For Dummies,

covers Adobe's latest version of Illustrator, which is the industry-standard drawing tool for print and the Web. It covers the basics you need to know to use the program, as well as information on the new features. Since Illustrator 10 has 25+ palettes, 70+ tools, and scores of menu items, its sheer depth is enough to make the most hardened graphics expert a little queasy. So the book is written for those of you who might be intimidated by these powerful features. It should make your venture into Illustrator flexible and self-paced as each chapter is as self-contained as possible. You can hop in anywhere you want, with a minimum of flipping to other parts of the book to find out what you missed. If you want to find out more about the Pencil tool, for example, you can skip everything else and go directly to that chapter. Yet if you're determined to find out as much about the program as possible, you can read the book from cover to cover. The book is organized so that the chapters move from simple to more complex concepts. The early chapters make a good base for understanding the latter ones.

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