Lynda.com – Dw + jQuery Projects: Making Your Marquee Auto Play | 121 MB
Duration: 34m | Video: AVC (.mov) 960×600 15fps 400Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 96Kbps 1ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
This course, which builds on the foundations of Dw + jQuery Projects: Creating an Interactive Homepage Marquee, enhances the marquee with an auto-play feature that automatically advances through the slide images when the page is loaded. Working in a Dreamweaver environment, Chris Converse shows how to add auto play using a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, plus the implementation of hover states in jQuery. This course also covers adding play/pause functionality, as well as an interaction timeout, which will restart the marquee after a specified period of idle time. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
* Previewing a project across browsers and devices
* Updating CSS and HTML in Dreamweaver
* Adding debugging code
* Declaring variables in JavaScript
* Using setInterval
* Stopping auto play during user interaction
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Lynda.com – Douglas Kirkland on Photography: A Conversation with Gerd Ludwig | 456 MB
Duration: 50m | Video: AVC (.mov) 960×540 15fps 1100Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 128Kbps 2ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
In this installment of Douglas Kirkland On Photography, Douglas Kirkland talks with his friend and colleague, Gerd Ludwig. A photojournalist best known for his work in National Geographic magazine, Gerd Ludwig has taken a special interest in Russia and the former Soviet Union—in particular, the people and stories surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
As the installment begins, Gerd is packing for this third major trip to Chernobyl. Gerd shares his techniques for choosing and packing gear for a photojournalism expedition.
Next, Douglas and Gerd sit down for a wide-ranging conversation. They discuss the changing business landscape of photography and Gerd’s approach to photojournalism. Gerd also describes how and why he works in Chernobyl and details how he financed his latest trip through the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.com.
After Gerd returns from Chernobyl, he and Douglas meet again to review some of the photographs and video that Gerd shot during his latest trip. They talk about Chernobyl today, about how video is impacting photojournalism, and about the future of Gerd’s "Long Shadow of Chernobyl" project.
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Lynda.com – HTML5: Structure, Syntax, and Semantics | 563 MB
Duration: 4h 34m | Video: AVC (.MOV) 960×540 15fps 200Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 96Kbps 1ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
HTML5: Structure, Syntax, and Semantics gives designers a deeper understanding of HTML5 and shows how to create richer, more meaningful web pages with structural tags and descriptive attributes. Author James Williamson presents an overview of HTML5 and its development, defines the new tags and attributes, and discusses how browsers parse and display HTML5 content. The course also includes step-by-step instructions for constructing an HTML5 document with a header and footer, navigation, content groups, and formatting. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
* Defining basic elements
* Exploring the content model
* Creating document sections
* Using hgroup to override sectioning
* Using the proper nesting structure
* Choosing the right structural element
* Using class and ID attributes
* Building navigation
* Grouping content with asides
* Using divs in HTML5
* Creating block level links
* Defining link relationships
* Understanding current browser support
* Adding support for elements in older browsers
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Lynda.com – HTML5: Web Forms in Depth | 321 MB
Duration: 1h 58m | Video: AVC (.MOV) 960×540 15fps 300Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 96Kbps 1ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
In HTML5: Web Forms in Depth, author Joe Marini details the latest enhancements for client-side forms found in HTML5. Using real-world examples, the course showcases the capabilities of the specification’s new attributes and form elements, such as displaying default placeholder text, setting required fields, capturing email addresses, and presenting calculation results within a form. The course also demonstrates mobile device support for HTML5 forms and shows how to modernize existing forms while maintaining backwards compatibility for older browsers. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
* Autofilling previously entered data with autocomplete
* Constraining form field data with a regular expression
* Using text-selection APIs
* Building CSS styling for invalid, valid, and required fields
* Creating a search field
* Including a phone number input field
* Formatting number fields
* Building a date picker
* Creating a list of suggested entries
* Indicating measurements
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Lynda.com – HTML5: Local Storage and Offline Applications in Depth | 274 MB
Duration: 2h 21m | Video: AVC (.MOV) 960×540 15fps 200Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 96Kbps 1ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
HTML5: Local Storage and Offline Applications in Depth describes how to save application data such as preferences or form data in the client’s browser and use it in applications, including those run offline. Author and programmer Bill Weinman covers the various local storage options provided in HTML5, including local storage, session storage, and the Web SQL and Indexed Database APIs, with practical examples that show how to create and maintain a database in each scenario. The course also covers the use of storage events for change tracking and the cache manifest for using web applications offline. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
* Understanding storage components of the HTML5 architecture
* Providing client-side storage
* Understanding the Storage() interface
* Keeping context with sessionStorage
* Understanding the Web SQL and Indexed Database APIs
* Creating a local storage database
* Reading, writing, editing, and deleting storage data
* Handling storage events with local storage
* Running applications offline
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Lynda.com HTML5 Video And Audio In Depth | 350 MB
Video: avc1 MPEG4 (H264) .MOV | 2h 7m | Resolution: 960×540 | Audio: mp4a AAC 44100Hz
Genre: eLearning
In HTML5: Video and Audio in Depth, author Steve Heffernan contextualizes the state of HTML5 audio and video and shows how to embed media into a web page using HTML5. The course sheds light on configuring the new HTML5 audio and video tags, ensuring backwards compatibility by setting alternative playback methods, encoding the needed file formats, and building custom controls with JavaScript. Also included are tutorials on troubleshooting known issues and reviewing real-world examples of HTML5 audio and video. Exercise files accompany the course.
Topics include:
Understanding the differences in media formats
Preloading, autoplaying, and looping in HTML5
Setting a video’s width and height attributes
Displaying subtitles and captions
Generating embed code with an embed code builder
Encoding files using HandBrake, Firefogg, and VLC
Creating a load progress bar
Recognizing Android and iOS issues
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Lynda.com – HTML5: Graphics and Animation with Canvas | 464 MB
Duration: 3h 07m | Video: AVC (.MOV) 960×540 15fps 300Kbps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 96Kbps 1ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English
One of the most exciting additions that HTML5 offers to designers is the ability to draw free-form graphics on a drawing surface known as the Canvas. In this course, author Joe Marini introduces the technical concepts behind Canvas and shows how to perform drawing operations directly in a web page. The course covers drawing basic and complex shapes, setting colors and styles, adding shadows, patterns, and gradients, more advanced techniques such as scaling, rotating, and compositing objects, and how to incorporate Canvas elements in a slideshow and an animation. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
* Understanding the differences between Canvas and SVG Graphics
* Drawing shapes
* Drawing arcs and paths
* Rendering text
* Using clipping paths
* Drawing images and video
* Transforming objects with the translate tag
* Manipulating raw pixels
* Applying a custom transformation
* Creating an animation or slideshow control with Canvas
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For this installment of Photoshop for Designers, Nigel French explains the fundamentals of working with type in Photoshop, distinguishing when it is appropriate to set type in Photoshop rather than InDesign or Illustrator and what makes Photoshop unique for certain type treatments. This course demonstrates essential techniques, such as entering and editing text; interacting with type layers; and adjusting the color, transparency, character and paragraph formatting of type. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
The pros and cons of setting type in Photoshop
Setting type preferences
Choosing fonts
Sizing type
Entering glyphs and special characters
Tracking and kerning type
Using Baseline Shift
Working with OpenType fonts
Justifying and aligning paragraphs
Masking type with clipping masks
Warping type
Converting type to shape layers
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In Excel 2010: Charts in Depth, Dennis Taylor shows how to analyze and communicate data with charts in Excel. The course starts with the foundations: what the parts of a chart are, what the different types of charts are, and which charts work best for your data. The course then shows how to create a presentation-ready chart in minutes and offers dozens of in-depth tutorials on formatting and fine-tuning charts so they represent data clearly and accurately. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
Identifying the plot area, chart area, gridlines, legends, and more
Selecting the right chart type
Creating charts instantly with shortcuts
Choosing a layout
Dealing with empty and hidden cells
Switching rows and columns for a different view of the data
Moving and resizing a chart
Inserting pictures and shapes
Adding labels to a chart
Analyzing existing and future data with trendlines
Changing a chart’s data source
Printing charts
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In Access 2010: Queries in Depth author Adam Wilbert illustrates how to create and leverage real-world queries and turn raw
data into usable information. The course covers setting up queries performing calculations using the built-in Access
functions to further refine query results and identifying top performers or areas for improvement based on a range of
criteria. Exercise files are included with the course.
Topics include:
* Naming conventions and best practices
* Working with joins
* Using comparison operators
* Defining criteria for select queries
* Creating parameter queries
* Creating calculated fields
* Working with dates and times
* Using the Expression Builder
* Creating conditional statements
* Making deleting and appending records
* Building reports
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