Draw a cube
A simple cube is comprised of three squares, skewed and reshaped to match the perspective of the background. Adding fill co …
Draw a string of pearls
A string of pearls is much easier to draw than it might seem. You begin by drawing a path that represents the s …
Moving forward
Now that you’ve completed the first part of the tutorial, save your work. You can use the file you created in this …
Introduction Macromedia FreeHand 10 is a powerful, easy-to-use application for creating images from the simple to the complex. In fact, …
Examine the sample image
When artists are learning to use an unfamiliar medium such as acrylic paint or an airbrush, they often start b …
Draw a cone
Shading a cone is a challenge because neither a linear gradient nor a radial gradient accurately produces the highlights an …
Draw a magnifying glass
Drawing a magnifying glass in FreeHand involves combining some of the techniques you’ve already learned w …
Draw a wood-grained surface
Drawing a wood-grained surface as a background is not complicated, but some of the methods used may not be …
Finish the drawing
The only thing left to do is resize the wood-grained surface to fit the drawing and position it correctly behind the …
John, a sales rep for the JQ Paint Company, e-mails Marsha in the creative services department to say he needs a presentation for a dep …
Setting Up the Content Div
The next element to design in the XHTML document is the container for the main content, appropriately named …
Clearing Elements
The following property (and value) makes an element appear below all the content that is above it within the flow of …
Writing the Footer Selector
Make the footer selector the same way you created the other selectors. The footer will also be an ID select …
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Preparing Your Page for Debugging
We investigated the float technique earlier in this series and now it’s time to use it to crea …
Adding the Left Column
Open the basiclayout.css file and create space at the bottom to add a new selector. Once you do this, complete …
Adding the Float
Return to the basiclayout.css file and locate the #leftcol selector. By now you should be able to quite easily add a f …
Organizing the Columns
At the moment you have the two columns roughly in position, although you still have some work to do to give the …
Floating the Content
Your first job here is to locate the the two clearing divs in the basiclayout.html page and delete them.
To corre …
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