Join Rich Harrington as he explores the world of budgeting by laying out the nuts and bolts of budgets and proposals for video projects. While defining the tools to develop professional budgets, quotes, and proposals, the course also shows video producers and managers how to transform a budget into an invoice. At the end of the course, the author creates a well-versed budget, proposal, and invoice for the sample project, which can serve as templates for future projects.

Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP with David Gassner describes how to install and perform the initial configuration of Apache, MySQL, and PHP, known as the AMP stack, on a local development computer. Chapters are devoted to multiple installation approaches: installing the components separately on both Windows and Mac, installing the pre-packaged Apache and MySQL distributions in WampServer on Windows and MAMP on Mac, and installing the cross-platform XAMPP on both Mac and Windows. Exercise files are included with the course.

In Prototype and script.aculo.us Essential Training, Joe Marini introduces the concepts and techniques for using Prototype and script.aculo.us, two of the most popular open-source javascript libraries for building cross-browser, highly interactive, and visually appealing web sites. This course also covers installing each of the libraries and explaining their unique purposes, using simple CSS3 expressions to manipulate web content, working with events in a cross-browser way, and enhancing a real-world web site example to show different ways that the libraries can be used. Exercise files are included with the course.

In Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: Camera Raw 6, Chris Orwig provides in-depth training on Camera Raw 6, the CS5 component that enables photographers to open and manipulate images in non-destructive and now even more efficient ways. This course covers the benefits of the raw processing, which makes it possible to more precisely control an image's appearance—exposure, shadow and highlight detail, color balance, sharpness, and more—including new workflow procedures and technical concepts and issues. Learn the entire Camera Raw workflow, from opening and resizing, toning and cropping, to sharpening and saving. Exercise files are included with the course.

Author Todd Perkins uses Objective-C and Xcode to build Mole It!, a full-featured game app for the iPhone and iPad that can be downloaded for free from the iOS App Store. The finished app implements Game Center functionality as well as channels for generating revenue. The course introduces the open-source gaming framework cocos2d and explains the fundamental classes necessary for creating a game. The course also shows how to incorporate multi-touch capabilities, customize a game's appearance, set up iAds and in-app purchasing, and configure leaderboards that record and display scores. Exercise files accompany the course.

One of the most exciting additions that HTML5 offers to designers is the ability to draw free-form graphics on a drawing surface known as the Canvas. In this course, author Joe Marini introduces the technical concepts behind Canvas and shows how to perform drawing operations directly in a web page. The course covers drawing basic and complex shapes, setting colors and styles, adding shadows, patterns, and gradients, more advanced techniques such as scaling, rotating, and compositing objects, and how to incorporate Canvas elements in a slideshow and an animation. Exercise files are included with the course.

As Ansel Adams once said, "The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance." Now, with Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Desktop Printing Techniques, creating breathtaking prints is within reach.

In Photoshop for Designers: Color, Nigel French focuses on the tools and features in Photoshop designed for choosing, applying, and editing color. The course looks at concepts such as the color wheel and color harmonies as well as the practicalities of using the Color Picker, leveraging the power of color channels, and the characteristics of different color modes in Photoshop. The course includes exercises on correcting color, enhancing color, shifting and replacing colors, working with spot color channels, hand coloring black and white images, and designing with a reduced color palette. Exercise files are included with the course.

In the third installment of the Photoshop CS5 Extended One-on-One series, author Deke McClelland shows how to build, light, and render realistic 3D scenes in Photoshop CS5 Extended. Providing a systematic approach to scene building, the course explains how to produce reflections and refractions, balance the interplay of light and shadow, and frame scenes with 3D cameras. Exercise files accompany the course.

In this course, Paul F. Aubin creates standard content, such as furniture, doors and many other architectural components using The Family Editor in Revit. The course starts with basic concepts: a hierarchy of family, library resources and more. The course also addresses in depth the data for the form (the parameters of materials and visibility) are nested families and arrays, control rotation, and is working with advanced formulas. Exercise files are attached to the course. For more information on ofsayte.

Author Tom Geller demonstrates how to use the Views module and other add-ons in Drupal to present dynamic, data-rich content. The course examines several real-world examples of effective data visualization and describes the Drupal data-storage model. The course also shows how to create, format, and style views; control access to data; improve data administration with Views Bulk Operations; and display content as custom maps and slide shows. Exercise files accompany the course.

Create Your First Online Store with Drupal Commerce shows how to build an online store using Drupal Commerce, a set of modules that extend Drupal. The course demonstrates the basics of configuring a store, processing a payment, and charging for shipping and taxes, as well as creating, displaying, and categorizing products. The course also explains how to integrate a store into a Drupal site, customize a store's appearance, and increase site traffic using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Exercise files accompany the course.

In this course, author James Williamson offers a high-level overview of Cascading Style Sheets. This course explores the basic concepts, terminology, and tools of the language. Beginning with an exploration of CSS syntax, James explains how CSS modifies text, borders, backgrounds, and color; demonstrates CSS and HTML integration; and contextualizes the current state of CSS. The course also tours some of the most popular CSS editors and frameworks and lists online tools and resources for further study. This course is for people who want a big-picture overview before taking hands-on courses.

Author James Williamson provides an overview of HTML5 and its development, define new tags and attributes, as well as considering how to analyze and browsers show the content HTML5. The course also includes a step by step instructions for constructing HTML5 document with header and footer, navigation, content and formatting of the groups.

In this course, Morten Rand-Hendriksen focuses on two elements of web development: accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO), demonstrating why they are important and how they work. The course also shows how good coding practices and modern web standards can make a site accessible and more visible to search engines and social networks. Exercise files are included with the course.

One of the most interesting additions to the proposed HTML5 designers the ability to draw graphics on the drawing surface, called Canvas. In this course, by Joe Marini presents the technical concepts Canvas and shows how to represent the operation of drawing directly on the web page. The course covers the basics of drawing sophisticated shapes, colors and styles to install, add shadows, patterns and gradients, more advanced techniques such as scaling, rotation and composition of objects, as well as the incorporation of a Canvas in a slide show and animation.

Shooting with the Nikon D5100 details the features, controls, and options in the Nikon D5100 camera. Author Ben Long provides an overview of a digital single lens reflex (SLR) camera and reviews the Nikon D5100 camera's components and basics of operation, including changing lenses, navigating the menus, shooting in Auto mode, and reviewing and managing photos on the camera’s LCD screen. The course also covers white balance options, advanced metering and autofocus controls, flash, and shooting HD video, and includes a chapter on sensor and camera maintenance.

This course covers CSS best practices and techniques for styling and structuring forms. Author Ray Villalobos explains how forms work, best practices for structuring HTML, new additions to forms in HTML5, and how to style individual elements. The course discusses how to use CSS to style traditional and custom elements and reviews browser discrepancies, custom elements, and custom fonts and how to style for different types of user feedback. Advanced CSS layouts and design patterns and issues specific to styling for handhelds are also covered. Exercise files are included with the course.

Finale is the standard application used by musicians of all levels to compose, arrange, play, and print music. In this course, Rick Schmunk shows any aspiring or professional musician, composer, or arranger how to become proficient with Finale 2012. The course shows how to notate musical scores, ranging from simple lead sheets and guitar tablature parts to detailed scores, and bring them to life with instruments and share them with an audience. Exercise files are included with the course.

In this course, Garrick Chow provides in-depth instruction on all aspects of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch (OS 5.0): making calls, emailing, browsing the web, managing time, getting around town, taking notes, shooting photos, and listening to music . New features in iOS 5, including iMessage, the streamlined Notification Center, and Apple's new online storage solution, iCloud, are discussed in depth.