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Hey some of them were as well! Then there are the ones zapped along with spamers...

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Personally I would suggest you check out Adobe TV for product videos tutorials.

Tour De Flex is a desktop app (Adobe Air) for figuring out what it is you want to do in Flex, it runs examples of the Flex controls and can really give you an ideas of how they work. Worth downloading if you get into flex.

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Flash Player Census Shockwave Player Census However at this writing I must admit that both statistics are exactly the same. I suspect this may change or there is no use in having two. Silverlight is also not shown as it is new and not around when this was done. I am told they use different groups to get the statistics each time to they are fairly accurate. Thought it may be of interest. I personally have a hard time believing that all cell phones and other alternative user agents support it. Apprently iPhone does not yet.

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The Adobe Media Player is A Flex App requiring Adobe Air (a damn fine tool to have installed anyways, excellent for RIAs, both online apps and desktop apps online or offline). You can access Adobe TV over the Media Player (which can be given RSS feeds to download videos from) and you can track, add to favorites and down load video tutorials for most all Adobe Products and watch them repeatedly at your leisure. It even remembers where you were in the video when you stopped and shows which videos you have already seen. Along side that are full length movies, TV shows, and music videos in many different categories. But for me the star of the show is the integration with the 'new to me' Adobe TV. This would be a great place for beginners to start looking for tutorials on Adobe products. Adobe Media Player is a Flex project and does require Air be installed. Flex is growing on me. Adobe TV can also be visited on the web and does not require the media player (put I like downloading and watching off line after adding them to my favorites.)

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OK, now this is not a CSS program per say, but most colors definitions are done with CSS so I thought this the best place. Kuler is a Adobe Flex app created to help your find the right colors for your site. It was adopted by Adobe and now resides on their site. Basically you can go, choose a color palette you like. You can go and create your own with all shades in between, you can publicly make your palette available or use those of others. It is a really sharp tool and well worth checking out hence making it a sticky until we finish reorganizing. It is however Flash based. It also requires Adobe Air (damn fine tool to have installed anyways, excellant for RIAs, both online apps and desktop apps online or offline) and with the Adobe Media Player you can access tutorials for using it over Adobe TV which has excellent video tutorials on Adobe products that can be downloaded and placed in the media center favorites for repeated use. It also needs Adobe web site Registration, this is free and if you already are registered with Adobe, you are good to go. Once in, choose any color scheme and it will show you the values in CMYK, RBG, Hex... you name it, just copy it to your CSS. You can also modify the colors using the color wheel on top or the sliders below the colors to tweak them to your needs. This thing is to handy to miss. Flex is growing on me.

-9999px was what we used to make disjointed rollovers, off page then moved on when rolloed over. I did see a blog that complained he was penalized for this by Google even though it is a old accessibility move as hiding them can make content unusable, I will see if I can find it.

I went to whitehouse.com years ago... I guess Female employees there are scantily clad... or not at all. No wonder Clinton got in trouble! (I believe the Whitehouse .com site finally bowed out as kids were comming there accidentally so they signed it over to the Gov people.)

Speaking of hot air, Saturday, middle of Jan in Alaska and we hit a high of 54 degrees. People were out in T-Shirts! Our three feet of snow has lowered as fast as it came. !!! We went wail watching, it was wonderful... but that big bright round thing in the sky was blinding... wonder where it came from.

Let us know when you got that done so someone can take a look.

Right off the top, ditch the red text. Those who are color blind and can't see red will see Dark Olive green on black. I think 30% of the population is colorblind, 90% of that are men and most often red cannot be seen. Ditch the validation badges to. No one cares but us and we can check ourselves. It is really embarassing when you make a mistake in an update and do not test it and claim what is not valid to be valid. PS - The M77 was a grenade launcher as I recall, Vietnam "Blooper" I believe. (well I was almost right, it is a grenade launcher, but more modern, also a rocket launcher and even a spiral galaxy... let me guess, likely a highway in GB too.)

I just thought it was funny! My take on it was that so many blogs are just people who like to hear themselves type... there is more than green house gasses in the air. "This is my brother, we went shopping, I bought shoes, he bought a shirt that was just soooooo, like icky..." Guess I should have placed it is Quotes so it did not look like i wrote it. I drive a SUV and if you don't like it folks... come live in Alaska. I tried to ride the native wild life like they do horses, ostrages and Cammels... but Black bears are grumpy and so short my feet dragged on the ground. Now I sit crooked after he bit off one of my cheeks.

See the ASPX at the end of the URL? They are doing that with ASP controls built into the .NET framework. Really easy when you are using that. I don't use JS, so I will leave it to others. But let me say, make sure the default position of the links is rolled out and the JS hides them. A lot of user agents do not support JS, So the nav is hidden from them. If the nav is open and hidden with JS, if JS is not there... they can still use the site. Far to many open it with JS and lock such users out.

This may be of use to you: Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? by Susan M. Weinschenk Ph.D. Why does someone decide to buy a product online or register at a website? Psychologists have known for years about the nonconscious forces that persuade people to take action. Neuro WebDesign applies the research on persuasion and decision making to the design of websites. Neuro WebDesign explains psychological research on social validation, reciprocity, fear of loss, contrast and other principles in an easy to understand way, and then goes on to show how to implement these powerful ideas. For example, why are customer ratings so important at a website, and what are the critical elements to include to make them even more effective? Does the order in which you provide choices have an unconscious effect on which one is chosen? Some books describe research; some books give advice on web design, but Neuro WebDesign combines the research on non-conscious decision-making and persuasion with web design advice. Publisher: New Riders Pub Date: December 23, 2008 Print ISBN-10: 0-321-60360-5 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-60360-9 Web ISBN-10: 0-321-60364-8 Web ISBN-13: 978-0-321-60364-7 Pages: 168

Yep, Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross has found that 20 mgs of carbon dioxide is released onto the atmosphere for every second that an average website is viewed. This includes the energy used both on the surfer's end and the web site's end (all the computers, networks, etc. that are involved in viewing an average site). This is actually 50 percent MORE than the amount of green house gases emitted when a human exhales. When a British newspaper cited his findings, Google had a hissy fit even though they were not mentioned. Because it's web site is so massive and gets so many hits. Google's "footprint" is probably in the hundreds of thousands of pounds of green house gases per month range (based on ~200 million searches per day). Google claims it takes 1000 searches to equal the greenhouse gas emissions generated by an average car driving one kilometer. Note that streaming a video, etc. creates a whole lot MORE greenhouse gas than viewing normal web pages. Downloading 1000 megs of data is the equivalent of burning a 10 lb bag of charcoal. More gas for thought: In 2007, Gartner Research found that the global IT industry generated about the same amount of greenhouse gases as the airline industry - about 2 percent of global emissions.

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ROFL Mukesh - don't believe everything you hear. Adobe is just pushing their products in their courses. There are no 17 Standard layouts except what they consider standard for themselves and those are likely the templates the tools come with.

Oh I love these really helpful first time posters who pass out their version of the standard generic knowledge of web design in an attempt to spam us. Guess what, you do not need XHTML to use CSS, HTML works just fine and as said, HTML should be used and not XHTML. Also agree that no developer worth his salt uses named colors. CSS3 is not a standard yet. Not! The author of the color safe palette said herself back in 2002 or so that there is no reason for it now, even the cheapest graphic cards support full color ranges. Bit outdated that one. Funny that color and navigation are important, what about usability, accessibility, error free code, standards... all that effect the use before anyone gets to the color. *sigh* Try participating in a forum before you spam it, you are preaching off key to the choir.

What does Adobe know? Not that their sites are creative... I never heard of 17 layouts befoere unless they mean what is included with Dreamweaver.

We posted jobs for Employers, but never advertising our services. Not sure if we will hsave a jobs board of some form here. But thanks for asking first, most do not.

From the local Radio, KINY Only in Alaska!