In Excel 2007: Creating and Managing Invoices, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Curt Frye shows how to set up an efficient and flexible invoice management system. As part of the instruction on how to design a custom invoice in Excel, Curt explains how to use a PivotTable to put each customer’s information on its own worksheet. If Word is the preferred method for creating an invoice, Curt covers how to use Word 2007’s Mail Merge function to work with an Excel sheet. He also outlines some advanced tips, including calculating interest on unpaid items and tracking invoices. Exercise files accompany the course.

Microsoft Excel is the world s most-popular spreadsheet program--used by schools, offices, and home users. In Excel 2007, Microsoft has completely redesigned the user interface, making it more intuitive and more attractive. But anyone needing to get started quickly without learning all the ins and outs of the software still needs a handy guide. And with Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Excel 2007: Visual QuickProject Guide they ve got one. Excel expert Maria Langer walks readers through the new interface and teaches them the tools they will use throughout the project. From there, she helps them create their first workbook, using formulas, adding formatting, adding a visually rich chart. Readers also learn how to effectively print their spreadsheets and charts--something that s much more confusing than it sounds! Along the way all readers will learn how to create attractive, professional, and effective Excel documents. Each book in the Visual QuickProject Guide series now has a companion website featuring sample project files--making it even easier for users to work through each project as they read through the book. Other features on the companion website may include articles on getting the most out of the topic, a database of frequently asked questions, excerpts from the book, general tips, and more.

Trilogy of The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Design and Converting it to HTML and CSS describes the development of a skeleton page in Fireworks, creating designs in Photoshop and slicing the template in HTML / CSS. The first two parts exist only in the format of the web of text and pictures. The third part - screencast. It appears that previously manufactured sliced PSD-template from Photoshop to JPG / GIF / PNG and coding HTML / CSS in (makintoshevskom) notebook.

This book walks readers through the process of creating a basic Web site from scratch using HMTL, the basis for billions of Web pages, and then jazzing it up with advanced techniques from the author’s award-winning sites. This updated edition features new material that shows readers how to attract visitors to a site and keep them there, including new javascript examples and coverage of cascading style sheets and XHTML, technologies that make building successful Web sites even easier. Also features exciting new tips and tricks for beginning and advanced users, as well as more expanded examples and samples for users to incorporate in their own sites. The book moves from basic design and deployment to advanced page layout strategies, showing how to spice up new or existing sites with sound, video, and animation.

Comics are as popular as ever in all areas of pop culture. You will find aspects of them in music, movies, TV, print, and even on clothing. Jason Maranto’s Creating Modern Comics course will show you in-depth techniques using modern tools that will enable you to create any aspect of comicbook art in the most common styles. Focused largely on the powerful natural media emulator Corel Painter 11 and loaded with course files to enhance your productivity, this comprehensive course will jump start your growth in this exciting and creative medium. Work files are included.

This book shows people how to create an eco-friendly garden from scratch or by redeveloping an existing garden. It is practical, simply written and based on the author’s own first-hand experience and the wealth of knowledge amassed during the course of her job at Grass Roots, Australia’s most popular self-sufficiency magazine.

The author’s aim is that readers will gain the confidence and knowledge necessary to develop a garden in their own individual style to suit the needs of their family, in an environmentally friendly manner and for little cost.