David A. Crowder, «Building a Web Site for Dummies»
For Dummies | ISBN: 0764571443 | 2004 | PDF | 384 pages | 13.19 MB

Configure, manage and maintain a copy of Invision Power Board 2 on your own website to power an online discussion forum

* Get your own forum up and running quickly
* Extensive coverage of the Administration Control Panel to put you on the right track for managing your board
* Learn the secrets of a successful forum from other forum administrators

In Detail Written specifically to allow you to create a discussion forum, Invision Power Board (IPB) 2, provides all of the tools, features and functionality for you to set up and develop a vibrant community. Because it specializes in this one aspect of your website, all the features are geared towards this goal, and you can leave the improvement and additions to the Invision Power Services developers while you get on with managing the rest of your website.

If you are either already running a community forum based on Invision Power Board, or are planning on establishing one, then this is the book for you. This book will guide you through installing, configuring, managing and maintaining an Invision Power Board discussion forum on your own website.

The book begins with the initial installation and configuration of IPB on your system. You will then go on a tour of IPB and its features, for both users and administrators. This will grow your understanding and familiarise you with the power and possibilities of IPB.

IPB's Administration Control Panel is where you can control every aspect of your board. From users, forums and word filters to skins, templates and maintenance, everything can be done through the web-based control panel. The book devotes significant sections to covering these, getting you up to speed on the options available to you, and offering advice to help you make the right choices with your board administration.

To make your forums stand out from the rest, we cover skins and templates to take your first steps in customising your forum.

What you will learn from this book?

* How to Install and configure IPB
* Learn the basics of working with IPB forums
* Find your way round the Administration Control Panel
* Create and manage forums and permissions
* Maintain users and user groups
* Get to grips with IPB skins to customize your site
* Discover under-explored features such as the IPB post office, subscriptions, and filters
* Learn from other administrators the secrets of making a successful forum

Approach

This book is a fast-paced guide to the most important features of Invision Power Board, and how to make best use of these features to power your forum.

Who this book is written for?

This book is written for new and intermediate users of Invision Power Board, who want to manage and maintain an Invision Power Board discussion forum as easily as possible. No experience of web programming is required.

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By David Pogue and Aaron Miller Not every piece of video needs fancy effects. In fact, most video is probably better without a Dream filter and Picture-in-Picture. The unadulterated stuff straight from your camera usually looks best.
In fact, if your footage needs any help at all, it's probably in the cameraman department. Don't take this personally. Handheld shots, the most common kind of home video, are notoriously unstable, and that's an instant giveaway that you're an amateur. You can have the hands of a surgeon and still end up with shaky footage. This is true even with all the newfangled image stabilization technology that comes in the latest cameras.
Don't give up (and don't resort to carrying a tripod everywhere). iMovie '09 can stabilize your video after the fact, using one of its most amazing new features.

Video Stabilization
iMovie has powers that leave other "beginner" video-editing programs panting with envy. It's filled with tools that have historically been found only in professional editing programs. iMovie's stabilization feature, for example, is inherited from Apple's $1,000 Final Cut Pro software.
It works by analyzing every single frame in a clip, recognizing the changes in both camera position (movement up, down, left, or right) and camera rotation. Once it figures that bit out, it knows how to slide and rotate your clips to iron out the shakes.
Unfortunately, this sort of analysis takes a very long time—roughly ten minutes for every minute of video (more or less depending on your Mac's speed).
The results, however, are worth it. The stabilization feature works absolute magic on most jerky, bumpy handheld footage. It works so well, in fact, that it can look positively creepy, as though you were floating along on a magic carpet. Fortunately, there's a slider that lets you control how much stabilizing goes on.

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Apple's iMovie '09 is more accessible and comprehensive than iMovie '08–and impressive right out of the box. The one thing not in the box is a user's guide, and that's where this book comes in. You'll make the most out of the applications if you get help from the experts. iMovie '09 and iDVD: The Missing Manual explains everything you need to know to turn raw digital footage into high quality film.

Stabilizing Shaky Footage
By David Pogue and Aaron Miller Not every piece of video needs fancy effects. In fact, most video is probably better without a Dream filter and Picture-in-Picture. The unadulterated stuff straight from your camera usually looks best.
In fact, if your footage needs any help at all, it's probably in the cameraman department. Don't take this personally. Handheld shots, the most common kind of home video, are notoriously unstable, and that's an instant giveaway that you're an amateur. You can have the hands of a surgeon and still end up with shaky footage. This is true even with all the newfangled image stabilization technology that comes in the latest cameras.
Don't give up (and don't resort to carrying a tripod everywhere). iMovie '09 can stabilize your video after the fact, using one of its most amazing new features.

Video Stabilization
iMovie has powers that leave other "beginner" video-editing programs panting with envy. It's filled with tools that have historically been found only in professional editing programs. iMovie's stabilization feature, for example, is inherited from Apple's $1,000 Final Cut Pro software.
It works by analyzing every single frame in a clip, recognizing the changes in both camera position (movement up, down, left, or right) and camera rotation. Once it figures that bit out, it knows how to slide and rotate your clips to iron out the shakes.
Unfortunately, this sort of analysis takes a very long time—roughly ten minutes for every minute of video (more or less depending on your Mac's speed).
The results, however, are worth it. The stabilization feature works absolute magic on most jerky, bumpy handheld footage. It works so well, in fact, that it can look positively creepy, as though you were floating along on a magic carpet. Fortunately, there's a slider that lets you control how much stabilizing goes on.

Download Here