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August focus on Web Design
      Readers from the Design Cafe and WebDesign lists
      review sites posted by readers...
Handmade Knives?... Mookmaan site needs focus
Good start for BodyJones... needs a bit of finishing
Sumptuous and colourful illustrations... Sarah Dillard Illustration
Watt Media called "crisp"... needs more clarity
Abbeymoore Bed and Breakfast... Great pictures, too much scrolling
Stunning Photos... but artists site needs navigation
Oak Ridge Military Academy... Do we need the music?
Alan Babbitt Photography site... ... with room for improvement
Scriptwriter Site Confuses Readers... I didn't know where to start
More is less... but reviewer needs to know more


Top 20 Web Design Tips... with designer, Marcelle Toor
New Illustrator books... see our new graphics bibliography
Joyce is back... with reviews of: MTIV: Process, Inspiration and Practice
        for the New Media Designer;
Inside Dreamweaver 4; Dreamweaver In a Nutshell; Dreamweaver 4 H.O.T. (Hands on Training); Intermediate Dreamweaver 4 (Hands on Training); Learning Dreamweaver 4 (Hands on Training); Dreamweaver 4 The Missing Manual; Learning UltraDev 4; Skip Intro: Flash Usability and Interface Design, and Flash MX Savvy
Photoshop Bibliography... best new Photoshop books


DT&G - AUGUST 2002
Vol. 10, #8, PDF ONLY
Download the August 2002 DT&G -- NOTE: extra large issue this month (1 megabyte) and may take several moments to download
      * Editor: Our August theme is Web Design with two important tutorials.
      * What to do with all those graphics files: Databasing Media
      * Technique: Optimizing Web Graphic (PS/ PS Elements)
      * Letters: Is there a real need for optimization
      * &Type! Photoshop Type Effects: with Roger Pring
      * 60-Seconds #146: Ten important questions about your web site
      * &Else Design News includes: *nothing but fun stuff this moth . . Need a little learning? * iVillage cuts out pop-up ads from new format * Add Voting to your site * New Search Engine? * Creative idea source: Puppets * Another real idea starter * Advertising Age covers the Century * Just for laughs * Help with Public Relations * Been ripped off?
There are more ELSE items in the news [ &Else ]
Spam Backgrounds
      Mr. Pixelsmith cleans out his spam filter again... MORE backgrounds
Robin Williams: Web Design
      Exclusive interview with WebDesign & Review

The Painter behind Painter
      Interview with Cher Threinen-Pendarvis,
      author of The Painter 7 WOW Book.
The Logo Font from Jonathan Macagba
Montessori Fonts
      This is a "free" font selection from Phils, while they last.
Special Two-Part Issue
Designing with Photos Part 3
      comes to you in its own separate 8-page PDF
      Download it at the Publishers' Warehouse!
Vacation Photos on the spot?
      see your photos today, not next week --
      create your own picture post cards!

Special Update: eBooks Reference Guide
      follow-up to last month's What are eBooks Good For"
      in the DT&G Business Department
Special Update: Self Publishing Resource Guide
___in the DT&G Reviews Department
* Designing with Photos Part 2 comes to you in its own
separate 8-page PDF - in the Publishers' Warehouse!
* Designing Across Cultures
Essential learning for all designers
* Editor's Choice: ONE CLICK WOW
* You've got SPLAT!
if you can Photoshop it, then you can SPLAT it!
* Developing an information model
JoAnn Hackos, PhD looks into the surfer's mind
* How do you make rusty type?
Joyce shows you how in Fireworks and Photoshop 6
* Gallery Opening: "Was it Premonition?"
a preomition of the events of September 11, 2002 -- The disturbing but invigorating art of Hanna Haska
* Mr. Pixelsmith: It's About Color
special color item this month on how we build our colors
* Hex or Not to Hex: that is the question
finding ways to generate hex codes in Photoshop 6
* Whatever happened to GIF89a?
It's there... go digging
* Layer Blending Modes to the rescue
the solution for perking up dull black and white art
* How to Send Photos in Email
The "P" in "PC" stands for "Plague"... or good photos? You decide (Mr. Pixelsmith in WebDesign)
* Air Discounters dot com site critique:
A real success story of a site check on the WebDesign discussion list -- the Before and After!
* Letters: About Moire Patterns
How to fix those strange wavy patterns?
* Casual fonts
Jerry Gallo is back with a great hand font!
* New Book Bibliography:
PaintShop Pro Resource Guide
FLASH Resource Guide
Macintosh Resource Guide
* Celebrating Creativity
"Clone" by Jonas Angelet
" Window with chair" by Richard Bornemann,
Two new openings in the Design Center Gallery


* Updated: Readers send in their web sites for review
* Updated: Mr. Pixelsmith Duz Colors
* Design FOLIO Debut: Deb Taylor Design
* Marketing through the tough times
___ with special guest professional Jennifer Proia
* Classic Illuminated Caps
___ In the &Type Department, and at the Loading Dock
* Newsletter make-over clinic
__ DTG Editor Fred Showker critiques a reader's newsletter and shows powerful, but easy makeover techniques!
__ Part #1 also in the DTG PDF Edition
* Review: Photoshop Retouching Seminar

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