The Comprehensive Guide to CorelWEB.GRAPHICS Suite

Introduction

Part I: CorelWEB.DESIGNER

Chapter 1 Getting to Know CorelWEB.DESIGNER

• The WEB.DESIGNER Interface
• The Sad Truth About HTML Text
• Paragraph Formats & Character Styles
  • Heading Formats
  • Body Text Formats
  • List Formats
• Physical Character Styles & Logical Character Styles
  • Physical Character Styles
  • Logical Character Styles
• Additional Text Controls
  • Text Alignment
  • Text Indent
  • Text Size
  • Text Color
• Hyperlinks--You Can Get There From Here!

Chapter 2 Working With Web Page Graphics

• Backgrounds Set the Stage
  • Setting Background Colors
  • Setting & Removing Background Images
  • Finding Backgrounds
  • Speeding Up Background Images
• Placing Images
  • Controlling Image Properties
• Navigational Graphics
  • Linking a Single URL to an Image
  • Linking to Multiple URLs With Image Maps
• Using Icons, Dingbats & Dividers
  • Icons
  • Dingbats
  • Divider Bars
• Using Illustrations & Photographs
  • Finding Illustrations & Illustrators
  • Finding Photographs

Chapter 3 Designing With Tables & Forms

• Why Use Tables?
• Creating Tables
• Working With Tables
  • Adding & Deleting Columns & Rows
  • Adding & Deleting Cells
• Constraining Page Width
• Multicolumn Pages
• Using HTML Forms
  • Mailto Links
  • Form Creation Tools
  • Where Does the Info Go?
  • Building a Form

Chapter 4 Creating Web Pages

• Designing Your Site for Growth
  • How Is the Site Organized?
  • Setting a Server Root
  • Where Do the Images Go?
  • Maintaining Links
  • Eliminating Orphan Files
• Rearranging Your Site: A Caveat
  • What Happensds With the Search Engines?
  • How Should You Deal With Print Media Citations?
  • Incoming Links From Other Sites
  • Individual Browser Bookmarks
• Corel's CD: Trash or Treasure?
  • Using WEB.DESIGNER's Templates (or Not)
  • A Quiver of Arrows
  • Boffo Backgrounds
  • Wasted Bullets
  • Bodacious Buttons
  • Doodlicious Dividers
  • Colorful Drop Caps
  • Illustrative Icons
  • Opulent Objects
  • Pixelicious Photographs
  • Themesets
• Putting WEB.DESIGNER to Work
  • Drag & Drop Images From WEB.GALLERY
  • Text-Image Alignment
  • Build a Simple Margin Table
  • Build a Simple Five-Column Navbar Table
  • Setting Font Face

Chapter 5 Planning Your Web Site

• Target Your Audience
  • Content Is King
  • Design Your Site Around Its Content
• Design Problems & How to Conquer Them
  • It's Too Darn Slow
  • It's Hard to Read
  • It's Just Plain Ugly
  • The Navigational System Is Confusing
  • It Was Designed for a Specific Browser
  • It Doesn't Feel Like One Site
  • It's Tough to Find
  • It's Password-Protected
  • It Goes 404: Page Not Found
  • It Doesn't Do What You Want It to Do
  • It's a Pain in the Neck to Maintain
  • It's Stale
  • It Blinks

Part II: CorelWEB.DRAW

Chapter 6 An Introduction to CorelWEB.DRAW

• The Basics of CorelWEB.DRAW
• The Pick Tool
  • Selecting Multiple Objects
  • Stretch, Scale, Mirror & Move
  • Rotation
  • Skew
• The Zoom Tool
• The Pencil Tool
  • Some Bezier Basics
  • Drawing With the Freehand Pencil Tool
  • Drawing With the Bezier Pencil Tool
• The Rectangle Tool
• The Ellipse Tool
• The Text Tool
• The Shape Tool
  • Using the Shape Tool on Text
  • Round-Corner Rectangles
  • Pie Wedges & Open-Path Arcs
  • Basic Node Tweaking
• The Outline Tool
  • Outline Color
  • Outline Pen Attributes
• The Fill Tool
  • Solid Color Fills
  • Fountain Fills
  • Two-Color & Full-Color Patterns
  • Texture Fills
• The URL Drawing Tool

Chapter 7 Getting Down to Business With CorelWEB.DRAW

• The File Menu: Open & Shut
  • File Import & Export Formats
  • Drag & Drop Imports With Mosaic
  • Publishing Files
• The Edit Menu: Essentials
  • Just Undo It!
  • Paste Special
  • Swipe That Style!
  • Insert Object
• The View Menu:
• Scope It Out
• The Layout Menu: Get Organized
• The Arrange Menu: Slice & Dice
  • Get in Line With Align
  • Combine & Break Apart
  • The Cookie Cutters: Weld, Intersection & Trim
  • Separate
  • Convert to Curves
• The Effects Menu: Blast Off
  • Gain a New Perspective
  • Get Twisted With Envelopes
  • Blend: It's a Smoothie!
  • Extrude: Quick & Cheesy 3D
  • Transformation

Chapter 8 Creating Structural Web Graphics

• Building Backgrounds
• Vertically Striped Backgrounds
  • Setting Up the WEB.DRAW Page
  • Creating a Solid-Color Vertical Stripe
  • Creating a Three-Dimensional Vertical Stripe
  • Creating a Vertical Fade-Out Stripe With a Fountain Fill
  • Creating a Cylindrical Vertical Stripe
  • Creating a Seamless Textured Vertical Stripe
• Horizontal Striped Backgrounds
  • Creating a Solid Color Horizontal Stripe
  • Creating a Deckled-Edge Horizontal Stripe
• Textured Backgrounds
• Building Buttons
  • Using Prebuilt Buttons
  • Flat-Color Buttons
  • Three-Dimensional Buttons
• Creating Graphic Navigation Bars
• Building Horizontal Dividers
  • Simple Colored Bars
  • Blendee Bars
  • Tubular Bars
• Building Bullets
  • Simple Bullets
  • Three-Dimensional Bullets
• Exporting Web Graphics
  • Exporting as GIF Format
  • Exporting as JPEG Format
• Image Mapping With WEB.DRAW

Chapter 9 CorelWEB.DRAW Tips & Tricks

• Type Tricks
  • Drop Shadow & Emboss Effects
  • Inline/Outline Effects
  • High-Contrast Effects
  • Sci-Fi Perspective
  • Licking the Envelope
  • More Blended Effects
  • More Timeless Typographical Clichés
• Spin-A-Rama!
• Node-Tweaking Tips
  • Choose the Correct Node
  • Adding & Removing Nodes
  • Aligning, Stretching & Rotating Nodes
  • Getting Elastic
• Working With Pattern Fills
  • Two-Color Patterns
  • Full-Color Patterns
• Hot Spot Tips
• Changing WEB.DRAW Preferences
  • General Preferences: The Basics
  • URL Preferences: Image Map Ease
  • View Preferences: Take a Gander
  • Curve Preferences: Drawing Aids
  • Text Preferences: Type Control
  • Advanced Preferences: Whatever's Left Over

Chapter 10 Optimizing Web Graphics

• Getting It Right For the Web
  • The Magic 216-Color Netscape Palette
  • Loading Custom Palettes in WEB.DRAW
  • Where's the Anti-Aliasing Option?
  • Anti-Aliasing With CorelPHOTO-PAINT
  • Anti-Aliasing With Ulead GIF/JPEG SmartSaver
• Using Advanced Fills
  • Fooling With Fountain Fills
  • Tweaking Texture Fills
• Combining Images to Shave Download Times
• Exporting to Barista

Part III: CorelWEB.MOVE

Chapter 11 Introduction to CorelWEB.MOVE & Multimedia on the Web

• When the Web Was Young
• The Life & Times of WEB.MOVE
• The Basics of Animation
  • Work Smart—Aim for Simplicity
  • Animation Frames
  • Animation Cels
  • Props & Actors
  • Paths

Chapter 12 Getting Down to Business With CorelWEB.MOVE

• Introduction to MOVE's Interface
• The Animation Window
• The Toolbox
  • The Pick Tool
  • The Path Edit Tool
  • The New Actor Tool
  • The New Prop Tool
  • The New Sound Tool
  • The New Cue Tool
• The Playback Controls
  • The VCR Controls
  • Frame & Status Controls
• The Roll-Ups
  • The Timeline Roll-up
  • The Library Roll-Up
  • The Cel Sequencer Roll-Up
• The Menus
  • The File Menu
  • The Edit Menu
  • The View Menu
  • The Arrange Menu
  • The Tools Menu

Chapter 13 CorelWEB.MOVE's Object Editors

• The Great Editors
• The Wave Editor
  • The Editing Window
  • The Playback Controls
  • The File Menu
  • The Edit Menu
  • The View Menu
  • The Effects Menu
  • The Help Menu
• The Paint Editor
  • The Painting Window
• The WEB.DRAW Editor
  • Cel Select Roll-Up
  • The Pop-Up Menu
  • The File Menu
  • The Edit Menu

Chapter 14 Creating Animations—Three Projects

• What You'll Need
• Web Page Banner
• The Spinning Globe
• Barista-Driven Navigation Buttons

Chapter 15 CorelWEB.MOVE Tricks & Tips

• WEB.MOVE's Tools
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • All Roll-Ups
  • Timeline Roll-Up
  • The Animation Window
  • The Paint Editor
  • The WEB.DRAW Editor
• Using CorelMOVE 5 to Create .CMV Files
• Barista
• Creating the Images for the Globe Exercise
  • The Globe
  • The Type
  • The Space Background
• Running Under NT 4.0

Part IV: CorelWEB.WORLD

Chapter 16 Introduction to CorelWEB.WORLD

• 3D & the World Wide Web
• CorelWEB.WORLD & the Web
  • VRML Versus MUS
  • Determining Your Site's 3D Needs
• WEB.WORLD Basics
  • Simple & Easy to Learn

Chapter 17 Getting to Know CorelWEB.WORLD

• Three Windows on the World
  • The Plane Builder Window
  • The 3D Space Window
  • Decorator Window
  • The True Image Viewer
  • The Image Attributes Dialog
• The Tools of the 3D Trade
  • The File Tools
  • The Plane Builder Window Tools
  • The Decorator Window Tools
  • The Building Tools
  • The Attachment Tools
  • The Walker Bar
  • The Status Bars
• May I See a Menu, Please?
  • The File Menu
  • The Edit Menu
  • The View Menu
  • The Build Menu
  • The Explore Menu
  • The Window Menu
  • The Help Menu

Chapter 18 Creating Virtual Worlds With CorelWEB.WORLD

• Plan Ahead
• Setting Up Your Workspace
• Building With Boxes
  • Learning to Carve
  • Creating Doorways & Windows
  • Building Walls
  • Creating Faces
  • Creating Furniture
• Painting & Wallpapering
  • How Surfaces Are Covered
  • Working With Wallpaper
• Picture Perfect
• Getting Attached to Multimedia
  • The Power of Functions
  • Playing MIDI Files

Part V: CorelWEB.Transit

Chapter 19 An Introduction to CorelWEB.Transit

• When & How to Use WEB.Transit
  • The Conversion Process: An Overview
  • Translate!

Part VI: CorelWEB.Gallery

Chapter 20 An Introduction to CorelWEB.GALLERY

• Main Features—An Overview
• The Graphics—or Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?
• File Management = Time Management
  • Starting Out
  • Using Albums
  • Creating an Album With Cut & Paste
• Adjusting Windows
  • Fine-Tuning Album Fonts
  • Preserving Your Workspace
  • Flexible & Versatile
  • Printing Thumbnails
  • Archiving Albums & Files: Take a Smaller Byte!
• Using Keywords & Search
  • Quick Searchin' for More Surfin'
• Automatic Slideshows
• Scanning to Albums

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