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Tables of Contents for The Comprehensive Guide to Corelweb.Graphics Suite
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xxiii
Part I: CorelWEB.DESIGNER
1
154
Chapter 1 Getting to Know CorelWEB.DESIGNER
1
24
The WEB.DESIGNER Interface
4
1
The Sad Truth About HTML Text
5
1
Paragraph Formats & Character Styles
6
4
Heading Formats
Body Text Formats
List Formats
Physical Character Styles & Logical Character Styles
10
3
Physical Character Styles
Logical Character Styles
Additional Text Controls
13
6
Text Alignment
Text Indent
Text Size
Text Color
Hyperlinks--You Can Get There From Here!
19
6
Chapter 2 Working With Web Page Graphics
25
32
Backgrounds Set the Stage
27
8
Setting Background Colors
Setting & Removing Background Images
Finding Backgrounds
Speeding Up Background Images
Placing Images
35
7
Controlling Image Properties
Navigational Graphics
42
6
Linking a Single URL to an Image
Linking to Multiple URLs With Image Maps
Using Icons, Dingbats & Dividers
48
4
Icons
Dingbats
Divider Bars
Using Illustrations & Photographs
52
5
Finding Illustrations & Illustrators
Finding Photographs
Chapter 3 Designing With Tables & Forms
57
30
Why Use Tables?
57
1
Creating Tables
58
3
Working With Tables
61
5
Adding & Deleting Columns & Rows
Adding & Deleting Cells
Constraining Page Width
66
3
Multicolumn Pages
69
2
Using HTML Forms
71
16
Mailto Links
Form Creation Tools
Where Does the Info Go?
Building a Form
Chapter 4 Creating Web Pages
87
32
Designing Your Site for Growth
87
6
How Is the Site Organized?
Setting a Server Root
Where Do the Images Go?
Maintaining Links
Eliminating Orphan Files
Rearranging Your Site: A Caveat
93
3
What Happens 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?
96
12
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
Themsets
Putting WEB.DESIGNER to Work
108
11
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
119
36
Target Your Audience
120
4
Content Is King
Design Your Site Around Its Content
Design Problems & How to Conquer Them
124
31
It's Too Darn Slow
It's Hard to Read n It's Just Plain Ugly
The Navigational System Is Confusing n 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
155
174
Chapter 6 An Introduction to CorelWEB.DRAW
155
40
The Basics of CorelWEB.DRAW
158
2
The Pick Tool
160
5
Selecting Multiple Objects
Stretch, Scale, Mirror & Move
Rotation
Skew
The Zoom Tool
165
1
The Pencil Tool
166
5
Some Bezier Basics
Drawing With the Freehand Pencil Tool
Drawing With the Bezier Pencil Tool
The Rectangle Tool
171
1
The Ellipse Tool
172
1
The Text Tool
173
5
The Shape Tool
178
8
Using the Shape Tool on Text
Round-Corner Rectangles
Pie Wedges & Open-Path Arcs
Basic Node Tweaking
The Outline Tool
186
4
Outline Color
Outline Pen Attributes
The Fill Tool
190
3
Solid Color Fills
Fountain Fills
Two-Color & Full-Color Patterns
Texture Fills
The URL Drawing Tool
193
2
Chapter 7 Getting Down to Business With CorelWEB.DRAW
195
24
The File Menu: Open & Shut
196
4
File Import & Export Formats
Drag & Drop Imports With Mosaic
Publishing Files
The Edit Menu: Essentials
200
3
Just Undo It!
Paste Special
Swip That Style!
Insert Object
The View Menu: Scope It Out
203
2
The Layout Menu: Get Organized
205
1
The Arrange Menu: Slice & Dice
205
5
Get in Line With Align
Combine & Break Apart
The Cookie Cutters: Weld, Intersection & Trim
Separate
Convert to Curves
The Effects Menu: Blast Off
210
9
Gain a New Perspective
Get Twisted With Envelopes
Blend: It's a Smoothie!
Extrude: Quick & Cheesy 3D
Transformation
Chapter 8 Creating Structural Web Graphics
219
50
Building Backgrounds
219
4
Vertically Striped Backgrounds
223
13
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
236
3
Creating a Solid Color Horizontal Stripe
Creating a Deckled-Edge Horizontal Stripe
Textured Backgrounds
239
1
Building Buttons
240
11
Using Prebuilt Buttons
Flat-Color Buttons
Three-Dimensional Buttons
Creating Graphic Navigation Bars
251
1
Building Horizontal Dividers
252
2
Simple Colored Bars
Blendee Bars
Tubular Bars
Building Bullets
254
4
Simple Bullets
Three-Dimensional Bullets
Exporting Web Graphics
258
4
Exporting as GIF Format
Exporting as JPEG Format
Image Mapping With WEB.DRAW
262
7
Chapter 9 CorelWEB.DRAW Tips & Tricks
269
38
Type Tricks
269
19
Drop Shadow & Emboss Effects
Inline/Online Effects
High-Contrast Effects
Sci-Fi Perspective
Licking the Envelope
More Blended Effects
More Timeless Typographical Cliches
Spin-A-Rama!
288
2
Node-Tweaking Tips
290
3
Choose the Correct Node
Adding & Removing Nodes
Aligning, Stretching, & Rotating Nodes
Getting Elastic
Working With Pattern Fills
293
4
Two-Color Patterns
Full-Color Patterns
Hot Spot Tips
297
1
Changing WEB.DRAW Preferences
297
10
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
307
22
Getting It Right For the Web
307
9
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
316
7
Fooling With Fountain Fills
Tweaking Texture Fills
Combining Images to Shave Download Times
323
1
Exporting to Barista
324
5
Part III: CorelWEB.MOVE
329
160
Chapter 11 Introduction to CorelWEB.MOVE & Multimedia on the Web
329
14
When the Web Was Young
330
1
The Life & Times of WEB.MOVE
331
1
The Basic of Animation
332
11
Work Smart--Aim for Simplicity
Animation Frames
Animation Cels
Props & Actors
Paths
Chapter 12 Getting Down to Business With CorelWEB.MOVE
343
50
Introduction to MOVE's Interface
343
2
The Animation Window
345
1
The Toolbox
346
14
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
360
2
The VCR Controls
Frame & Status Controls
The Roll-Ups
362
8
The Timeline Roll-Up
The Library Roll-Up
The Cel Sequencer Roll-Up
The Menus
370
23
The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The View Menu
The Arrange Menu
The Tools Menu
Chapter 13 CorelWEB.MOVE's Object Editors
393
42
The Great Editors
393
1
The Wave Editor
394
11
The Editing Window
The Playback Controls
The File Menu
The Edit Menu
The View Menu
The Effects Menu
The Help Menu
The Paint Editor
405
21
The Painting Window
The WEB.DRAW Editor
426
9
The Cel Select Roll-Up
The Pop-Up Menu
The File Menu
The Edit Menu
Chapter 14 Creating Animations-Three Projects
435
28
What You'll Need
435
1
Web Page Banner
436
7
The Spinning Globe
443
9
Barista-Driven Navigation Buttons
452
11
Chapter 15 CorelWEB.MOVE Tricks & Tips
463
26
WEB.MOVEs Tools
464
12
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
476
1
Barista
476
5
Creating the Images for the Globe Exercise
481
4
The Globe
The Type
The Space Background
Running Under NT 4.0
485
4
Part IV: CorelWEB.WORLD
489
100
Chapter 16 Introduction to CorelWEB.WORLD
489
12
3D & the World Wide Web
490
4
CorelWEB.WORLD & the Web
494
3
VRML Versus MUS
Determining Your Site's 3D Needs
WEB.WORLD Basics
497
4
Simple & Easy to Learn
Chapter 17 Getting to Know CorelWEB.WORLd
501
60
Three Windows on the World
502
21
The Plane Builder Window
The 3D Space Window
Decorator Window
The True Image Viewer
The Image Attributes Dialog
The Tools of the 3D Trade
523
23
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?
546
15
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
561
28
Plan Ahead
562
2
Setting Up Your Workspace
564
2
Building With Boxes
566
14
Learning to Carve
Creating Doorways & Windows
Building Walls
Creating Faces
Creating Furniture
Painting & Wallpapering
580
2
How Surfaces Are Covered
Working With Wallpaper
Picture Perfect
582
1
Getting Attached to Multimedia
583
6
The Power of Functions
Playing MIDI Files
Part V: CorelWEB.Transit
589
18
Chapter 19 An Introduction to CorelWEB.Transit
589
18
When & How to Use WEB.Transit
589
18
The Conversion Process: An Overview
Translate!
Part VI: CorelWEB.Gallery
607
18
Chapter 20 An Introduction to CorelWEB.GALLERY
607
18
Main Feature--An Overview
608
1
The Graphic--or Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?
608
1
File Management = Time Management
609
4
Starting Out
Using Albums
Creating an Album With Cut & Paste
Adjusting Windows
613
6
Fine-Tuning Album Fonts
Preserving Your Workspace
Flexible & Versatile
Printing Thumbnails
Archiving Albums & Files: Take a Smaller Byte!
Using Keywords & Search
619
2
Quick Searchin' for More Surfin'
Automatic Slideshows
621
1
Scanning to Albums
622
3
Appendix A About the Companion CD-ROM
625
6
Index
631