•All It Takes Is A Droplet :

Want to optimize several images with same settings? Create a "droplet "and save time. Open optimize palette in Image Ready with your image open. Set optimization to what you want-file type (JPG, GIF or PNG), quality (low, medium, high), lousiness, dither and so on while previewing result in "optimized" tab of main in Optimize palette. This creates what is called a "droplet" that contains your optimization settings. Save this droplet anywhere you want, say on your desktop.

Now drag folder containing images to be optimized onto this droplet. All images in folder will get optimized way you specified. This may take a while depending on number and size of images in folder. You can also drop images one at a time onto droplet.

•Precise Hot Spots :

Want to link different parts of an image to various URLs? You can do this by slicing image and assigning links to relevant slices, but disadvantage of this is lack of precision: slice is necessarily rectangular. Also, slices are pieces of image.

Say you're working on a Web page for children about different parts of ancient castles. You would like parts-dungeons; moat, guard towers, and so on-to have precise rollovers and links so that information is conveyed correctly. Rather than slices such an images and allot links, use image maps, select polygon Image Map tool in Image Ready and outline part you want to talk about precisely . Even circular image maps work fairly well in some areas. You can adjust points of map edge after finishing shape, too .in image map palette, you can specify URL to link to along with ALT text. To preview your work, save Optimized as a HTML file and check it in a browser.

•Optimize Your Web Graphics Easily :

Despite cable Internet connections and high-speed modems, Web graphics are still limited speed-wise. The sites that load fastest and work most efficient have well-optimized graphics .GIF images are generally good for line drawings and illustrations while JPG ones are best suited for photographs. Besides file format, there are various factor that affect optimized image like ‘lousiness'-the amount of data in image that you're willing to sacrifice for smaller file size-the number of colors you need minimum, whether you can have dithering or not, so on .

In Photoshop, to try out different optimization settings, click Save for Web . A window opens up showing current image along with various options and menus on right . in image window itself, you can see two tabs: 2-up tab to see two versions-the original and optimized-for comparison along with time needed to load image according to various modem speeds . The 4-upshows you 3 versions against original. These previews are useful and convenient, rather than having to manually save image repeatedly in different ways and comparing each of them.

•Making A Banner Ad:

We're all familiar with banner ads that we see all over Web: a strip with an image and text that changes into another and another conveying some information. Clicking on this ad takes you to site that company is advertising for. You don't have to use GIF Builder or any other graphics software to animate such an ad. You can make it easily using Front Page. Select Insert-Web component-banner ad manger. In window that opens, specify size of ad, transition effect, number of seconds to display each image, URL to link ad to and add images you've prepared. That's it.

This feature could also be used you want to share a few photographs coiled also be used when you want to share a few photographs or images but don't want images to be save-able on cline's side; right-click will not work on these images. Although images may be found in cache, at least they won't be able to be copied directly.

Top business experience is required in analysis team in order to get in-depth understanding of business itself.

Remember: Our model, at this stage in development, must reflect business, not some constraints given by any tool or personal preferences. This happens all too often and usually with not-to-good results.

In analysis team, system analysts must have an expert level knowledge of business modeling. By business modeling, I mean exactly that. I do not mean expert knowledge of f.i. Entity Relationship modeling without relating it to real world. However good a person may be educated, nothing beats experience earned from several similar tasks at equivalent level of complexity. How does one gain experience then? Participate under a tutor. I would never hire a consultant without experience and trust her to understand complexity of my business, all by herself.

I will not go into detail as to total project staff is composed. This will depend on many outside factors, such as degree of participation from each party, size of project, formal requirements (public sector tends to require at higher level of project staffing, partly due to rigorous documentation requirements), etc. What we focus on is tightly performing party that determines final business model: The experts on business together with system analysts, preferably more than one in this phase.

Due to increasing complexity that tends to be taken into systems development, I cannot imagine a development project of any noticeable size that should not use a development tool as support for analysis team as well as for each stage other of development. I regard tool(s) chosen as an integral part of team. In many cases, tool is also communicator between business and analyst. I have often started a project by going through way we communicate with each other. In my experience, business soon finds Entity Relationship diagrams familiar, if not as familiar as to system analysts. However, they are a means of communication that work. The same may be said for function diagrams, or function hierarchies. They are even easier to understand for a non-system person.

That is why eBook on ‘Entity Relationship Modeling – Principles’ is in writing, and soon will be published on this site as a free eBook, which you are free to use in your ongoing or upcoming projects.

As for choice of modeling tool, I give no concrete recommendations: I have used Oracle Designer (formerly Oracle CASE*Method) for last 15 years, and I have found it to be a powerful and rich system, which delivers in many more areas than I have needed to use it for. I am probably a little biased here.

However, a toolset should include reusable objects: The results from analysis phase should be basis for generating tables and all other database objects for use in design phase, as well as functions should be used for generating candidate modules. Furthermore, database objects and candidate modules should be used to generate DDL (Data Definition Language) scripts for physically building all elements of database, as well as candidate modules should be used to generate running program modules. Not that I expect a system to be 100% generated – far from it. However, with such functionality you could show a prototype, which illustrated resulting, needed functionality, but without last finishing touch or most advanced business constraints built into it.

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