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The fast and easy way to learn to draw

Drawing can enrich your life in extraordinary and unexpected ways. Drawing your everyday experiences can change how you and others see the world, while drawing from your imagination can give rise to fantastic new worlds. And, despite what you may believe, it’s something just about anyone can learn to do.

Drawing For Dummies offers you a fun, easy way to learn the drawing basics. Holding fast to the simple philosophy that only you can teach yourself to draw, it gives you the tools you need to explore the basics and move on to more advanced techniques. This revised edition of one of the most successful For Dummies guides includes

• Additional step-by-step instructions for drawing people, animals, still life, and more
• Coverage of effects, composition, and perspective
• How-to art projects that show you how to create your drawings from simple geometric shapes to finished artwork

It’s never too late to unleash the artist within. Let Drawing For Dummies, 2nd edition put you on the road to discovery and self-expression through drawing.

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Get the most out of the latest iLife suite with this full-color, friendly guide!

The iLife software suite from Apple is comprised of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb, all of which assist with organizing, viewing, and publishing digital content such as photos, movies, music, and Web pages. This fun, friendly, and full-color guide will help you easily and efficiently organize all your digital materials. Veteran author Tony Bove reviews the latest enhancements to the latest version of iLife and presents you with clear explanations and step-by-step instructions for keeping track of everything digital.

• Popular author Tony Bove shows you how to organize your digital photos, movie clips, audio, Web pages, and much more with the newest version of iLife
• Features full-color images, clear explanations, and step-by-step instructions to demonstrate how iLife can make your life easier and more organized
• Walks you through the capabilities of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb

With iLife ’11 For Dummies, Tony Bove shows you how to organize your digital life!

From the Back Cover
Do more with your movies, music, and photos with iLife’s cool new features

iLife ’11 rocks! No, really — we mean it. With GarageBand, you can learn guitar and piano, and fine-tune the timing of real instrument performances. Download Now »

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Written by nationally recognized HR communication consultants, this book is filled with practical tips on how to take HR employee directed communication from boring to compelling. This handbook, organized around the employment cycle, offers HR professionals an approach and specific techniques they can use every time they communicate (in all forms and mediums).  This desk reference will help HR professionals increase employee responsiveness to communications and participation in programs.

HR professionals know their work is pivotal to organizational success. But they also know how difficult explaining their programs can be. Hampered by lawyers, complexity, and politics, too many HR organizations create boring, confusing messages–and get ignored.

You must change that. And you can.

This book will help you dramatically improve the effectiveness of every message you create. Renowned HR communications experts Alison Davis and Jane Shannon present simple, powerful principles and techniques every HR professional can use–even those who hate to write.

You’ll discover how to treat employees as customers and use the same strategies and tools your company uses to sell its products or services.Plus, you’ll learn better ways to explain each of your business-critical programs–from compensation and benefits to performance management. Download Now »

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The free and open-source package Drupal is one of the most user-friendly and popular web content management systems (CMSes) available. Sites built on it are highly visible and include The Onion and Amnesty International. Its web-based interface allows those with little or no experience to create professional-looking sites quickly while its flexibility gives them access to such features as blogs, polls, and forums.

This Visual QuickStart uses plenty of screen shots and step-by-step instructions to walk a reader through the process of building a site using Drupal. It starts with installation and initial configuration, discusses content and user management in depth, and concludes with ways to improve your new site’s appearance and interactivity.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Getting Drupal Up and Running
• Chapter 2: Establishing Your Drupal Site
• Chapter 3: Creating and Managing Content
• Chapter 4: Customizing Content
• Chapter 5: Making Content Interactive Download Now »

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Praise for Previous Edition of Joomla!: A User’s Guide. The Best Easy-to-Use Guide to Joomla!™−The World’s #1 Open Source Content Management System

If you want to build sophisticated websites that can be easily edited and updated, you need to master Joomla. Now there’s an easy-to-read, easy-to-use guide to Joomla for every site manager, administrator, and developer. Leading Joomla consultant Barrie North covers all you need to get results: installation, administration, site organization, template development, content updates, and a whole lot more. You’ll find tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions, as well as three start-to-finish case studies.

New to Joomla? No problem! This book starts with the simplest design and system concepts, and builds your expertise step-by-step. You’ll rapidly master Joomla’s power, even if you have no content management, scripting, or CSS expertise. Experienced with Joomla? You’ll turn to this book constantly for its authoritative, plain-English, example-rich Joomla 1.6 reference content.

• Understand content management, what Joomla does, and how its components fit together
• Build Joomla sites from scratch and systematically customize them to your needs
• Create modern, pure CSS Joomla 1.6 templates using popular grid frameworks
• Use Joomla 1.6’s nested categories to organize content and articles
• Create dynamic pages and effective navigation Download Now »

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The indispensable introductory reference guide to HTML, XHTML and CSS

Even though new technologies enable people to do much more with the Web, in the end HTML, XHTML and CSS are still at the root of any Web site. The newest edition of this bestselling guide is fully updated and revised for the latest technology changes to the field, including HTML5 and CSS3. Illustrated in full color, this book provides beginner and advanced coders the tools they need to be proficient at these programming languages.

• Shows you how to create a Web page and formulate XHTML document structure
• Addresses working with content management systems (WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla), and designing for mobile devices (iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android)
• Introduces HTML5 and CSS3, tools critical to mobile Web development
• Reviews working with text, lists, and images, and customizing links
• Demonstrates ways to employ cascading style sheets (CSS) and get creative with colors and fonts
• Details integrating scripts with XHTML and understanding deprecated HTML markup tags

Written by two veteran computer whizzes, HTML, XHTML and CSS For Dummies will help you get the design results you want! Download Now »