Adobe Illustrator CS4 Review
At version number fourteen, finding more features to improve the already near-perfect Illustrator app is probably quite the challenge for the developers at Adobe. Yet, they’ve managed to do it again and we’ll go into these features in just a moment. The basics about Illustrator: it’s compatible with both Mac and Windows, has a [...]
Continue reading...19. August 2009
Corel Painter 11 Review
Corel’s Painter software, especially since the release of version X, gained quite a following from serious digital artists. Now, Corel Painter 11, a refined, more customizable version of an already great program, lets you carry an entire artist’s studio on your laptop. Painter is a bit steep – at $429 (box) or $399 [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2009
Table to Tableless
Table to Tableless Migration This tutorial requires intermediate knowledge of HTML/XHTML. It only requires basic knowledge of CSS. All of the properties I am using are being added to an embedded page style sheet, which is between the <head> tags in the document. You must use this to define header CSS: <style type=”text/css”> and </style>. Alternately, [...]
Continue reading...27. July 2009
PhotoScape 3.3 Review
PhotoScape (Freeware: Windows Only) (Sidenote: if you are looking for freeware photo editing software and you run Mac OS X or Linux, skip this article and check out Gimp.) First and foremost, PhotoScape is a free and feature-rich alternative to paid photo-editing programs and it’s been downloaded over 6 million times (according to CNET) with an average [...]
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Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 Review
Corel Paint Shop Pro (Windows Only) Corel’s Paint Shop Pro can (and has been) referred to as a poor man’s version of Photoshop (the real deal, not Elements) and with this new version, it may be worth giving it a shot. Paint Shop Pro X2 includes more features (layers, for one) but is still maintains [...]
Continue reading...22. May 2009
iPhoto ‘09 Review
iPhoto ‘09 Review Part of Apple’s “iLife” package, and bundled with every Mac, iPhoto is more photo-management than photo editing. iPhoto’s been around for some years now, but it’s not usually regarded as a powerful editing tool although Apple has improved its editing capabilities in this release. Definitely a winner for those of you who are [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2008
Business of Web Design – Introduction to the course
Hi, I’ve just uploaded the first session/chapter of the audio-book. You can find a written outline of this session in my original post about the Business of Web Design. … I am repeating the announcement here so that subscribers to the RSS feeds will be notified. Anyway, let me know what you think … both the good [...]
Continue reading...12. June 2008
What are gravatars and why you need them?
What is a gravatar? Let’s take it from the source: A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. Avatars help identify your posts on web forums, so why not on weblogs?
Continue reading...12. June 2008
Comparing blogs, CMS and Wikis
I just published an article on my blog comparing these three different web publishing tools that you have to choose from: Blogs CMS Wikis
Continue reading...5. June 2008
Book Review: Flexible Rails: Flex 3 On Rails
Book review by: Richard Mischook Bottom Line A well written guide to using Ruby on Rails with Adobe Flex to create rich internet applications. My Motivation Recently I was working on one of my pet projects – an application for managing data mapping during the analysis phase of enterprise integration projects. The details of the application are not really [...]
Continue reading...5. June 2008
New Flash CS3 Video tutorials out soon.
I will be releasing a new Flash CS3 video tutorial in the next few days that examines the differences between Actionscript 1,2 and 3. Meanwhile, you can visit our Flash section on killersites.com Stefan
Continue reading...4. June 2008
Ajax Video Tutorials
We will be releasing a new set of Ajax videos very soon. The new videos will deal less with the underlying Javascript constructs; instead we will be looking at some of the popular Ajax frameworks that are out there. Things like: Scriptacoulous Adobe’s Spry framework for Dreamweaver Until the new videos come out, I invite to check out a [...]
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5. October 2009
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