Author Nik: MatthewFletcher
Name: Matthew Fletcher
One of the many uses of PDF documents is to provide us with a way for people to harvest information via an interactive form. Adobe Acrobat has some nifty features for creating such forms, distributing them and tracking responses.
A lot of people are reluctant to have a cheap web design company build their web site for them, because they feel they might not get the type of quality results they would like. However, in these recessionary times, finding affordable web design is becoming more attractive to people starting up a new business. The good news is that you can still create a web site for your business but without paying a fortune.
The display of information from a database is a fairly standard requirement on most websites and, in some development environments, it can take a fair amount of programming to achieve. In ASP.NET, however, it is remarkably easy, thanks to the use of built-in data-bound controls. There are two types of data-bound controls: those which are designed to display multiple records and those which will display one record only. The GridView control, the workhorse of databinding in ASP.NET, falls into the first category. It automatically generates an HTML table and fills it with information from a given data source with each record in the database rendered as a row in the table.
Most people learn how to use PowerPoint by themselves but by participating in some Microsoft PowerPoint training you can do so much more with the software. While PowerPoint is very simple to use and you can create slides in a few minutes there are some advanced features that can really enhance your presentation that you may not be aware of.
Given that Adobe own both InDesign and Illustrator, it should come as no surprise that the vector drawing tools found in InDesign function in pretty much the same way as those found in Illustrator. InDesign contains tools and menu commands for creating, manipulating and transforming vector shapes. These are used when working with text and graphic frames as well as with decorative page elements such as backgrounds, lines and flourishes.
The native file format of Adobe Photoshop documents is “.psd”. This is the only format which supports all of Photoshop’s features: layers, layer masks, layer comps, etc. If you have used these features in creating your final artwork, it is always a good idea to retain the “.psd” version and use File - Save As to export your work in any other format.
Microsoft Word is one of the most widely-used pieces of software in the world and comes as part of the Microsoft Office suite. It is basically a word processor but allows users to produce a wide variety of documents; anything from a short letter to a lengthy report. Almost anyone who has used a computer will either know Word to some degree or, at least, be aware of it. If you are considering getting your staff trained on Microsoft Word, here are some of the features you should definitely request that they be trained on.
ASP.NET master pages are powerful template pages containing information that is common to all pages in a site or all pages in one section of a site such as corporate logo, company information, headers, footers and navigation links. Content pages can then be created which are based on the master page(s). Master pages use the file extension “.master” which is automatically protected by the server and cannot therefore be downloaded by clients.
The alignment section of the Home Tab of the Excel 2007 ribbon is home to a number of options relating to the way in which your data is position within the cell. The most familiar and most frequently used icons in this section are the three relating to the horizontal position your data: left, centre and right. However you’ll notice that when you activate the cells of an unformatted worksheet, none of the three alignment icons is highlighted. This indicates that none of them is the default. The reason for this is that Excel treats data alignment differently depending on the data type.
Dreamweaver’s Properties Inspector is normally displayed at the bottom of the screen and is extremely versatile. It is context sensitive, in that it displays options which are relevant to the currently selected item. These options provide useful feedback and allow you to modify the attributes of the selected element.