If you want to diversify your portfolio and lower your risk exposure with hedge funds, here’s what you should know: Hedge Funds For Dummies explains all the different types of funds, explores the pros and cons of funds as an investment, shows you how to find a good broker, and much more.

If you’re investing for the future, you definitely want to minimize your risk and maximize your returns. A balanced portfolio with hedge funds is one of the best ways to achieve that sort of balance.

This book walks you step by step through the process of evaluating and choosing funds, incorporating them into your portfolio in the right amounts, and making sure they give you the returns you expect and deserve. You’ll learn all the ins and outs of funds, including:
* What kind of fees you should expect to pay
* Picking a hedge fund advisor or broker
* Fulfilling paperwork and purchasing requirements
* Performing technical analysis and reading the data
* How to withdraw funds and handle the taxes
* Tracking fund performance yourself or through reporting services
* Hedge fund strategies for smaller portfolios
* Performing due diligence on funds that interest you

ISBN: 978-0-470-38119-9
Pages: 400
October 2008

With Adobe Flash CS4 For Dummies as your guide, you can unleash your creativity and contribute to the “Flash”-iest showcase of dynamic content: the Web! You’ll beecome acquainted with Flash CS4 and learn when to use this popular Web development tool. Plus, you’ll discover what you can create, from animation to games to presentations.

This full color edition gives you the opportunity to get acquainted with Flash CS4, discover all the possibilities, and become familiar with the new tools. You’ll be able to create dynamic content, adapt the program’s features to suit your development needs, publish your Flash files to the Web, and showcase your creativity and newly acquired skills. You’ll discover how to create graphics, text, and layers, make animations, add sound and video, and optimize your files for download.

Web site designers, Web developers, and visual designers all use Dreamweaver CS4 to build world class Web sites. Whether you’re just starting out or you’re a design pro, DreamweaverCS4 All-In-One for Dummies makes Web development easy!

You’ll start with Dreamweaver basics and the essentials of a good Web site. Then you’ll learn to add zing with Spry effects, set up Contribute, build dynamic pages, extend your site with Web applications, configure database connections using PHP, ASP.NET, or ColdFusion, and more!

Discover how to:
* Get familiar with Dreamweaver’s workspace, use the toolbars and panels, and set preferences
* Plan, design, build, and manage a site that meets your audience’s expectations
* Add Flash files, movies, and sound, and keep your site updated with Cascading Style Sheets
* Create and use code snippets and history panel commands
* Follow the right steps for setting up links

ISBN: 978-0-470-38848-8
Pages: 432
October 2008

Whether you’re an experienced designer or just want to create a cool newsletter for the school soccer team, InDesign is the gold standard for desktop publishing programs. This easy-to-follow guide is packed with tips and techniques for making the most of InDesign’s features, along with some wise advice on designing pages that do their job perfectly.

* Make it work for you — explore the new tools, take advantage of personal workspaces, and set preferences for the way you work
* Master the details — take advantage of precise typography, layout, and graphics tools to get exactly the document you want
* Add color — use color libraries, multi-ink colors, and gradients to make your document sparkle
* Play well with others — learn how InDesign works seamlessly with other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite
* Get in style — take text and object formatting up a notch by using styles and InDesign’s many special effects
* Be Web savvy — use hyperlinks, multimedia elements, and more for Web, PDF, and Flash files
* Pack it up — prepare for printing or other output with enhanced preflighting and service-bureau tools

ISBN: 978-0-470-39656-8
Pages: 384
Date: November 2008

Adobe Illustrator is the gold standard for creating exciting, color-rich artwork for print, the Web, or even mobile devices. Whether you’re stepping up to Illustrator CS4 or tackling Illustrator for the first time, you’ll find Illustrator CS4 For Dummies is the perfect partner.This full-color guide gives you the scoop on the newest tools, tips on color control and path editing, ways to organize graphics, and how to get your work into print or on the Web.

Have more fun and get more done with Illustrator—here’s how to free your creativity!

Illustrator is the artist’s choice for creating spectacular graphics, and here’s the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. This full-color guide gives you the scoop on the newest tools; tips on color control and path editing; ways to organize graphics; and how to create for print, the Web, or mobile devices.

Published: Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-32725-8
Pages: 418

This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies will teach you how to use them. From the basics like getting your images into and out of Photoshop to enhancing, cropping, and colour correction, it’s all here!
You’ll get all of the basics of digital images and master the importing and exporting of images. You’ll find out how to create easy enhancements like adding shadows and highlights and making colour natural, in addition to learning how to use the Adobe camera raw plug-in. Before you know it, you’ll be making beautiful “art” with Photoshop by combining images, precision edges, dressing up images, painting in Photoshop, and using filters. You can even streamline your work in Photoshop using advanced techniques.

Find out how to:
- Import images and use all the tools and processes
- Reduce digital noise, make colors look natural, add highlights and shadows
- Optimise images for print or the Web
- Edit images

New to InDesign? Making the switch from QuarkXPress? No worries - this easy-to-follow guide shows you how to master this electronic publishing tool, customize the interface, work with objects and graphics, calibrate color, create PDF files, and more. From pages, panels, and pictures to text, tabs, and tables, you'll design and output like a pro every time!

* Set up a new publication
* Create and use master pages
* Add frames, lines, and colors
* Manage chapters and books
* Output your files
* Import and place pictures

ASP.NET 2.0 Everyday Apps For Dummies teaches ASP.NET 2.0 Web programming by example. In this book,you’ll find eight complete ASP.NET applications. The book takes a learn-by-example approach, under the assumption that you are already a pretty competent programmer who can best learn by seeing real-world examples i.e.real-world applications like shopping carts and discussion forums.

This book is a practical introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 Web programming. It provides you with actual working code to build the most popular types of applications
on the Web. These applications enable you to:

Restrict access to registered users, for all or part of your Web site Sell products online via your Web site Provide back-end functions for your public Web site, such as file maintenance and reporting Let users manage specific types of online content Create discussion forums and blogs

Ajax for Dummies is a e-book intended for web developers who need ajax for web development.This book gives you the whole Ajax concepts, taking a look at some cutting-edge applications. Like other For Dummies books, this one has been designed to let you skip around as much as possible. You don’t have to read the chapters in order if you don’t want to.

As Ajax is based on usingJavaScript in the browser, there’s a chapter on how to use JavaScript Then the book plunges into Ajax itself, creating Ajax applications from scratch, from the beginning level to the most advanced. And you’ll see how
to put many of the free Ajax frameworks, which do the programming for you,
to work. Because Ajax also often involves using XML, Cascading Style Sheets
(CSS), and server-side programming (using PHP in this book), there’s also a
chapter on each of these topics.You can also leaf through this book as you like, rather than having to read it from beginning to end.