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Dreamweaver CS4 video tutorial – new features
I just released the first of a few video tutorials on the soon to be released Dreamweaver CS4. CS4 has a few great new features that I have found to be real time savers and are really worth another look: – Workspaces – Code Navigator – Related Files
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Firefox Add-on Colorzilla Video Tutorial
Firefox has become much more than a great browser that puts pressure on Microsoft to do a better job with Internet Explorer. Firefox has become a treasure chest of tools that web designers can use in their everyday web design work. A lot of this power comes into Firefox via their plug-in architecture that they call ‘add-ons’.
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Dreamweaver CS4 Review
The boys and girls at Adobe recently released a public beta of Dreamweaver CS4 – and so now, I can freely talk about it! I’ve been beta testing Dreamweaver CS4 for a little while now and I’ve been looking forward to spewing my nerd impressions. I had to hold my tongue until Adobe released DW […]
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ZAC Browser (Zone for Autistic Children)
ZAC Browser (Zone for Autistic Children) is a browser especially developed for Autistic Children by John LeSieur together with his company People CD Inc. John has a 6 year old Autistic Grandson who had difficulty using a normal browser and acted out aggressively against the PC. So they developed a browser that is walled off […]
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Is Social Networking a viable business?
This article is targeted at web designers and business owners who are considering an investment in social networking. Let me just first say, that I have invested in it personally, where I created a video sharing system to help distribute my own content. … I had other ideas beyond that, but I soon discovered that: 1. It would require a huge investment (millions) in capitol to just get it off the ground. 2. That most user contributed videos are just terrible. I deleted most of them.
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Beware of new technology
In the following podcast, I outline my reasons why it is dangerous to jump into any new technologies whether it be a new programming language a piece of software or hardware. For those of you that are impatient – it comes down to two things:
- New technology typically is full of bugs.
- New technology may not last, leading you to a dead end.
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The three critical aspects of a website.
What are the three most important aspects of a web site? Let’s start with the bullet points:
- Content
- Ease of use
- Design aesthetics
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Internet Explorer 8 WebSlices
What are WebSlices? In a nutshell, webslices are an IE8 specific feature that allows the web designer to tag part of a webpage as a ‘webslice’. By tagging sections of a web page, users of IE8 can then subscribe to it, much in the same way that they can subscribe to an RSS feed
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Here comes Internet Explorer 8
Internet Explorer 8 is Microsoft’s response to the growing interest in interactive web services and rich online experiences. This is Microsoft’s second attempt to build a browser that follows standard compliant HTML and CSS. So, will designers and developers embrace this new Internet Explorer? Maybe. IE8 is becoming CSS 2.1 compliant. The beta release also […]
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Microsoft Expression Web 2 – a quick review
Microsoft recently released version 2 of their web design software Expression Web. For those of you who don’t know much about it, Expression Web replaces Frontpage and as such you won’t be seeing any new versions of Frontpage.
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Actionscript 3 Evolution Video Tutorial
I’ve just released a great new Actionscript video tutorial that shows you a few things:
- The differences between Actionscript 1, 2 and 3.
- How to bind Actionscript to a button.