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Designers converting from table-based to CSS-based design are often frustrated by the seeming inability to create equal height columns in CSS, an easy task with tables. Once they learn about the famous “faux columns” technique that simulates equal height columns using a tiling background image on a container, many remain frustrated that the technique only works for fixed width designs. Not so! This article will show you how to create liquid equal height columns using cleverly constructed background images and the background-position property.

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In Part 3, the final installment, we will cover adding some “jazz” to your Captivate movie. I will show you how to add audio to a movie, change the pointers used by the mouse and how to change mouse movement. I will also show you how to add a playback controller to a Captivate movie and create your own custom controller. Captivate can also be used to create slide shows and I’ll show you how to do that as well as explain the importance of a movie contaning no content.



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Part 2 of this article will focus on using Captivate templates, how to change the movie properties and resize your Captivate movie.

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Creating Captivate movies is much more than simply doing a screen capture and “adding stuff here and there”. Whether it is demonstrating a software technique, a product demonstration, executing a quiz, or developing a tutorial, the key to success is that old business adage: Plan your work. Work your plan. ”

This 3-part series is an excerpt from Tom Green’s Captivate Visual QuickStart Guide. Published by peachPit Press it will be available in mid November.

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Macromedia has brought easy, multimedia content creation to anyone interested in creating interactive or simulated environments. Captivate enables anyone to record onscreen activity and include this in interactive demonstrations. Applications include e-learning, customer service, and training.

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Macromedia is offering free, non-commercially licensed versions of Flex. The company wants to offer individuals the ability to create enterprise-class Rich Internet Applications. Interested applicants must first submit an application, which will be made available within the next few weeks.

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