Rob Huddleston - Teach Yourself VISUALLY Adobe Muse

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Cesavice Ronda David-Burroughs Andrea Hornberger Jennifer Mayberry Jill A. Proll Quality Control Technician Lindsay Amones Proofreader Lisa Young Stiers Indexer Potomac Indexing, LLC About the Author Rob Huddleston is an Adjunct Professor at the Art Institute of California, Sacramento in the Web Design and Interactive Media department, where he teaches programming and design, focusing heavily on mobile development. He has been creating web pages and applications since 1994, and worked for many years as a corporate trainer, where he taught web and graphic design to thousands of students from all walks of life. Rob is the author of XML: Your visual blueprint for building expert websites using XML, CSS, XHTML, and XSLT ; HTML, XHTML, and CSS: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages ; Master VISUALLY Dreamweaver CS4 and Flash CS4 Professional ; ActionScript: Your visual blueprint for creating interactive projects in Flash CS4 Professional ; the Flash Catalyst CS5 Bible ; Teach Yourself VISUALLY Web Design ; and two editions of Android: Fully Loaded . When he is not writing or teaching, Rob hangs out with his wife and two children, runs the Sacramento Adobe Users Group, sees a ridiculous number of movies, and obsesses about Firefly and Serenity . You can contact Rob via his website at www.robhuddleston.com or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/robhuddles.

Authors Acknowledgments Writing a book is always a challenge; writing a book on a program that is still being developed is an even greater challenge. This book would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of the wonderful people at Wiley, most importantly Stephanie McComb and Sarah Hellert. Their patience at the delays and constantly evolving table of contents made my job much easier, and I thank them. I would also be remiss in not thanking Lynn Northrup, who was instrumental in shepherding the book through its earliest phases. I owe a huge thank you as well to my tech editor Jon Nutting. Im pleased to have Jon as a colleague and a friend as well as a tech editor.

For several years, I resisted the idea of getting an agent. Finally, my good friend and fellow author Tom Green talked me into it, and its one of the best things Ive ever done. My agent, Margot Hutchison, takes care of the business side of things and allows me to focus on what I love doing writing and for that I am extremely grateful. The Muse team at Adobe was very kind and patient at answering my seemingly never-ending stream of questions and suggestions on the forums, even going so far as to implement a few of the latter. Keep up the good work, folks. Also, thanks once again to Christine Yarrow at Adobe for providing an invaluable link between authors and the product teams.

As always, I could not do this without the love and support of my beautiful wife Kelley, with whom Ive had the fortune of spending the last twenty-five years of my life, and that of my daughter Jessica and son Xander, who keep me grounded with the important things in life while understanding when I need to spend a weekend locked away at the computer. Finally, I want to thank Olen Sanders, for close to a decade of friendship, lots of great chats, and all those midnight movie screenings. Authors Examples and Updates All example files necessary to follow the examples in the book, including Muse project files for the beginning and ending states of the project in each chapter, can be downloaded for free from www.wiley.com/go/tyvmuse. One of the advantages of Adobes plan to make Muse available by subscription only is that it allows the company to push major upgrades to the program much more frequently than they have for past programs. You can read about the changes to the program and their impact on specific topics or sections of this book on the authors website at www.robhuddleston.com/books/tyvmuse. Additional topics and example files are also be available on that site.