David Karlins

Adobe Analytics is the most powerful tool available for analyzing digital consumer data, but it’s easier to grasp if you know where to start. Master the most basic and widely applicable features in the easiest way. Get details on two standard calculated metrics in the analytics industry that focus on analyzing engagement on your site, app, or other digital property.

Note: The following cheat sheet is from Building Websites All-in-One For Dummies which published in 2012; therefore, this content may be outdated. For more current information on website building, please see HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies.Whether complex or simple, websites require that you make decisions — such as color, theme, and tone — and that you juggle many pieces of the project — like code, style sheets, and graphics.

Many of the most dramatic changes in how Illustrator is being used are taking place in the realm of translating vector images to the web, and the underrated SVG format is the key link in that process. SVG files maintain the treasured scalability features of vector artwork and are supported nearly universally in websites and web development environments.

SVG type provides the same valuable features found in all aspects of SVG graphics created in Adobe Illustrator CC: scalability, editability in Illustrator, and native support in all browsers. Those features in and of themselves argue for exporting your graphic content that contains type in SVG format when it's targeted for digital development.

The first step in doing anything in Adobe Illustrator is to create a document. But right away you are confronted with important initial choices. Why? Essentially because Illustrator graphics can take two pathways: print, and screen. The way colors are defined and objects are measured varies greatly between these two paths.

In Illustrator, place refers to bringing files into an existing document. Placed files can be embedded in a document or linked from an external source and included in an Adobe Illustrator CC document. Before you learn how to crop in Illustrator, you need to first place images.When files are linked, changes to the original file are reflected in the Illustrator document.

SVG graphics from Adobe Illustrator CC are rarely handed off to digital designers with backgrounds. Normally the graphics float above whatever background exists in the website, app, animation, or interactive context.Before discussing what’s involved in knocking out the background behind SVG artwork, focus on applying transparency to SVG graphics.

You can export, save, and print several kinds of objects in Adobe Illustrator CC: an entire document; one, some, or all artboards in a document; selected objects; and assets. You share Illustrator files for a wide range of print and screen output options by exporting them to one of a long list of file formats.

Within the canvas of Adobe Illustrator CC, artboards are discrete, sized spaces that make it easy to export, share, or print sections of the canvas. The canvas is the area of the Illustrator workspace where you create graphics. The canvas is basically everything you see on the screen except the interface (such as the menu, Control panel, and other panels).