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Code Cuts - PDF & Adobe Acrobat developers portal
Articles and help for people developing Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files, for use on the Web and elsewhere.
DHTML GUIs
Companion site to "Building Dynamic HTML GUIs", a book by Steven Champeon and David S. Fox. Includes the code from the book itself.
Extensis BeyondPress
BeyondPress is a software tool that will convert Quark XPress layouts to web layouts, though sometimes with varying results.
A Jaundiced Eye: Boring Gallery
Have sidebars become stale? Browse A Jaundiced Eye's Boring Gallery and find out for yourself.
Open Source Web Design
A site that collects web templates, free for users to download and use on their own sites.
PDFzone.com
Resources, discussions, tools, tips, and techniques for PDF and Acrobat professionals.
Scharff Research
Research interests of Lauren Scharff, in the fields of visual perception and physiology; focusing on factors that affect readability and visual search of information.
Terry Morse Software: Myrmidon
Convert Quark, PageMaker, Word, or other Mac files to HTML layout.
ARTICLES
70 Ways To Handle Text-Intensive Web Sites
Advice on formatting and displaying content on text-intensive sites. (3/2/2001 at Web Review)
All About Backgrounds
How to design and use background images - tiled and non-tiled, for the whole page or for a table cell. (12/2/1999 at about.com)
Clean Up, Flatten Out
A call to build aesthetically pleasing, cross-browser websites. (7/13/2001 at Web Techniques)
Dreamweaver: A Visual Tool for Serious Web Coders
The co-author of Dreamweaver in a Nutshell makes the case for advanced web coders to use Dreamweaver's functions. (11/2/2001 at O'Reilly Network)
Flexible Table Manners
Tips on not only making your tables adaptive (stretch to accomodate the user's screen), but making that adaptivity work in all browsers. (10/25/1999 at builder.com)
Keeping Yahoo Simple--and Fast
Farzad "Zod" Nazem, Yahoo's CTO, works hard to keep the site's pages simple and fast. He approaches behind-the-scenes technology the same way: a few hours after deciding to use Akamai's content-distribution system, he had the system serving Yahoo's pages. (12/20/1999 at Fortune)
KISS: Keep It Simple ...Why?
Reasons and techniques for making your websites simple, but effective. (2/6/2002 at WebReference.com)
New Codes No Bar to Copyright Violation
A U.S. judge rules that great similarities in the user interfaces of two programs, even when underlying technology is completely different, can be an infringement of copyright. (10/26/1999 at Law News Network)
New WYSIWYG Editor Shootout
The WebMonkey crew examines the new (as of 1999) set of HTML tools, judging them on site management ability, developer interface, and a number of other criteria. (5/4/1999 at WebMonkey)
An Open Letter to ClickZ
Usability expert Jared Spool takes issue with ClickZ's suggestion that adding pictures of happy people to your website will increase sales. (10/4/1999 at ClickZ Network)
Savor Success With Java on the Front End
Choosing among various front-end interfaces - Swing-based, HTML-based, and XML-based - for Java applications. (4/20/2001 at Java World)
A Simple Approach to PDF
How to generate PDF documents from HTML pages/layouts, using Perl and HTMLDOC. (8/28/2000 at WDVL)
Tearing Up the Rules at latimes.com
How latimes.com took a chance and redesigned its site to look nothing like a newspaper. (10/26/1999 at Online Journalism Review)
Too Hard to Read?
Design advice on making your website's text more readable. (8/30/2000 at ClickZ Network)
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