This area provides information useful to the large community of visual communicators on the Internet. Graphic artists, art directors, interactive media designers, user interface designers, film and creative producers, multimedia producers, multimedi a production artists, production artists, photographers, typographers, and design educators will find a growing collection of valuable resources, a place with a community for design discussions, articles and feedback, and a gathering of insight into methods, tips, tricks and powerful technologies that provide the mechanisms to design not only the simplest of Web pages, but to design creative, dynamic Internet applications.
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Decreasing Download Time Through Effective Color Management (Jun 25, 1996)
Three top Web designers share how to choose the right file format, how to select colors that won't dither, and how to squeeze your file sizes down to the absolute minimum.Style Sheets: A Brief Overview for Designers (Jul 3, 1996)
Interactive Media Designer Nadja Vol Ochs provides a quick intro to style sheets, with examples.Multimedia Gallery
Each theme in the Multimedia Gallery contains several pages full of free backgrounds, banners, navigation controls, other images, and sounds. You may download and use any image or sound using your Web browser.
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Internet Explorer HTML Reference© 1996 Microsoft Corporation
This reference is updated frequently to provide a complete listing and description of HTML tags you can use to author Web pages for Internet Explorer 2.0 and 3.0.ActiveX Controls Overview
This overview explains, in layman's terms, what an ActiveX control is, why you might be interested in using controls, and how you can start writing your own controls. It also includes an FAQ that answers questions we've received from users, and pointers to ActiveX controls you can use today on your Web pages.Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad
This utility makes it easy to add ActiveX controls and ActiveX scripting (VBScript or JavaScript) to your HTML pages. The ActiveX Control Pad also includes WYSIWYG support for authoring 2-D layout regions in conjunction with the Microsoft HTML Layout Control (below).Microsoft HTML Layout Control
The HTML Layout Control gives you exact, coordinate control over the placement of objects on a Web page, and allows you to create rich images with overlapping graphics and objects without using large bitmaps.Microsoft FrontPage
This client/server application helps you create, deploy, maintain, and administer a sophisticated Web site that includes rich Web pages and interactive functions without programming.Additional Tools and Browsers
Check out additional browsers, viewers, and authoring/conversion tools in the Authoring/Editing section of the Site Builder Workshop, including Internet Assistant, Microsoft viewers, and VRML Add-In.TrueType Fonts on the Web
Free Windows and Apple Macintosh fonts and utilities you can download to use on your Web pages.Microsoft ActiveX Animation Player for PowerPoint
This browser extension allows you to publish and view live PowerPoint for Windows 95 presentations on the Web.