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Business of Web Design – hardware and software
The following session addresses a common question put to me many times: what hardware and software do you need to run a web design business? Do you need to upgrade to ‘industrial strength’ tools? I should also mention that I also touch on a few other things too that I know many of you will find interesting.
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Business of Web Design – Introduction
The ‘Business of Web Design’ is an audio book/podcast series that teaches you how to start and build a home based web design business. I am still currently in the process of fleshing out all the details, but I do have a lot down on paper. I am very close to being ready to record the first (of many) sessions and I expect to have something out this week.
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Dreamweaver CS4 video tutorial – first look.
Dreamweaver CS4 has a whole new interface that basically give Dreamweaver the Adobe OWL user interface. In the following video tutorial, I give a guided tour of the new Dreamweaver UI.
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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