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Ten Ton CSS Floating Layouts

Ever struggled trying to figure out how to build a floating layout using only elements and CSS? Ten Ton CSS Floating Layouts takes the mystery and headache away, and shows you how to build amazing CSS-based floating layouts from the ground up. With Geoff Blake's trademark non-jargonny approach, you'll have fun and learn a heap as you discover the world of floating layouts. You'll learn about floats and clears, then delve into creating three different types of layouts: flexible layouts, fixed layouts, and combination flexible/fixed layouts…all from scratch, all with floats, all by hand! …more >

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Published on October 22, 2011 06:49

Ten Ton CSS Fundamentals

CSS is a must-know for today's web designer. But it can be a confusing and difficult topic for those new to the field…rules, properties, style sheets, overrides…how does it all work? Well in this feature-packed DVD, award winning trainer Geoff Blake takes you from the very beginning, where you'll learn about the fundamentals of CSS, how it interacts with XHTML, and what's even possible with CSS, all the way through controlling page content like graphics, menus, and footers — plus you'll discover some awesome techniques to pull off advanced table formatting. From there, it's on to style sheets. You'll learn not only how to manage external style sheets, but how to work with multiple style sheets for maximum efficiency and control. Lastly, you'll learn about the cascading effect of CSS — one of the toughest concepts …more >

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Published on October 22, 2011 06:48

Ten Ton XHTML Fundamentals

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XHTML, the foundation of web design. Join award-winning software trainer, artist, and designer Geoff Blake on a journey into XHTML and web design in this information-packed DVD. Spanning nearly 6 hours, you'll gain skills and have lots of fun across more than 70 casual, easy to follow lessons, hands-on tasks and techniques! Get started with a solid foundation: What is HTML? What is CSS? How does everything fit together? From there, learn about handling text, tables, graphics, and hyperlinks. Finally, dig into building forms and handling multimedia—all in Ten Ton XHTML …more >

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Published on October 22, 2011 06:47

Ten Ton WordPress Essentials

Learn the ins and outs of the world's most popular blogging platform, WordPress! In this 8+ hour DVD, award-winning expert software trainer Geoff Blake teaches you how to install and set up a blog (both on a local machine and on a live site), create pages and posts, add in images and media, and how to integrate some of your favorite applications, like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Illustrator. From there, delve into blog customization and learn about widgets, blogrolls, custom sidebars, plugins, and a whole lot more. Jump into the world of blogging with Ten Ton WordPress Essentials! …more >

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Published on October 22, 2011 06:19

Ten Ton Photoshop Essentials

Delve head-long into the world of Photoshop with expert video trainer, artist, and designer Geoff Blake in this massive 14-plus hour, 2-disc DVD set! Packed with tricks, techniques, and hands-on tasks, it's an easy, non-jargonny approach for both Photoshop CS3 and CS4 users. Hang on tight as you're guided through comprehensive exercises on resizing and resolution, color correction, and image touch up. Master advanced techniques for creating eye-popping visuals, including masking objects, tilt-shift photography, sizzling text effects, and workflows with InDesign, Dreamweaver …more >

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Published on October 22, 2011 06:17

Ten Ton Dreamweaver

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Dreamweaver—The go-to web design tool for creative professionals. Expert video trainer, artist, and designer Geoff Blake introduces you to the world of Dreamweaver and web design in this monster 10-plus hour DVD, packed with tricks, techniques, and hands-on tasks—made specially to be an easy, non-jargonny approach for Dreamweaver CS3 and CS4 users. Master key concepts and explore the array of possibilities, particularly in the world of Cascading Style Sheets with Geoff Blake as your guide. You'll not only learn the secrets and master the techniques, but you're sure to have a whole lot of fun …more >

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Published on October 21, 2011 13:55

Back To School Promo — Get A Free DVD!

Check out Ten Ton's Back To School Smackdown and score a free DVD! When you buy two or more Ten Ton DVD's between now and September 1st, you can take your pick between Ten Ton Photoshop For The Web, Ten Ton Dreamweaver CS5 New Features, or Ten Ton Flash Power Workflow, and we'll throw it in with your order, absolutely free!

So head over to Ten Ton's catalog and pick out your DVD's! Hurry though, the smackdown ends on September 1st!

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Published on August 01, 2011 03:53

Five New Adobe CS5 Titles Available on Ten Ton Online!

We've just added five new titles to Ten Ton Online, InDesign CS5, Fireworks CS5, Acrobat X, Illustrator CS5, and Flash CS5! Sounds pretty awesome, huh? It sure is! That's over 32 hours of monster training added to our subscription service!

Ten Ton has made an agreement with Total Training to add twenty of their top training titles to our monthly subscription service. These are the first five…so as you can imagine, there's a huge amount of content still to be added!

Over the course of the summer, we'll be adding some great titles covering Flash, ActionScript, Photoshop, Office, and more. And these titles will only be available online, not on DVD, so if you're not a subscriber, be sure to sign up today! Click on the box graphics above to get details on each of the five new titles, and stay tuned cuz there's a lot more on the way!

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Published on July 11, 2011 08:10

Free Dirt Textures!

Need some heavy textures to spice up your design projects? Look no further — here's a handful of high quality, high resolution dirt textures to make your next project pop!

Did you ever eat dirt when you were a kid? While a mouthful of soil isn't so appealing, looking at some of the cool textures that form on the ground all around us can be pretty inspiring — and quite possibly exactly what would push your next design project over the edge. Below, you'll find 4 high quality dirt textures, which were shot just as the last of the snow melted away. Lots of cool textured patterns were left behind, so I grabbed my trusty Lumix and fired off a few shots for you.

Click on each photo to get the full quality version from Flickr. They're completely free to use, either in commercial or non-commercial projects, and feel free to chop 'em up, manipulate 'em, and do whatever the heck you want with them. They're yours, so have fun!

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Published on June 24, 2011 04:00

Free Texture Grab Bag From Lost & Taken

Up for grabs is a set of fifteen hi-rez textures from Lost & Taken! Lookin' for some scratched metal? Mouldy bricks? Baked earth? They gotcha covered, so head on over and pick 'em up!

I stumbled across a promotion on FaceBook, where texture blog Lost & Taken would give away a grab bag of high quality textures if they hit 4000 likes on their FaceBook page. Well, they passed the 4000-mark and immediately posted this: "Hey everyone. Today we crossed the 4000 member mark here on the Lost & Taken Facebook group. In celebration I put together a little texture grab bag for you guys…"

Wanna pick up the textures? Sweet. All ya gotta do is head over to their FaceBook page and give 'em a Like and they're all yours! So whatcha waitin' for? Get clickin'!

Free Texture Grab Bag From Lost & Taken