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Why Web Developers Should Blog

General, Website Development

There are a ton of bloggers out there. Who wants to see any more? Well, there are actually a ton of reasons why more web developers should be on their own sites blogging about their experiences.

Make a Website Developer Portfolio

Show off your stuff! The work that you do should follow you wherever you go. Placing this on your blog is a great way to showcase what you did and how you did it. If you are a freelancer, this is a great place to put your money where your mouth is and display your finest work for all the world to see. Generally, portfolios can be pretty boring. Don’t just show your work. Talk about it. People like to know the back story about the different processes you took and decisions you made. Continue reading Why Web Developers Should Blog →

Should You Hire a Web Designer or a Web Developer for Your Website?

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People use the terms “web designer” and “web developer” interchangeably. When creating a new website or upgrading a current site, who should you hire?

This article will explain the difference in the two disciplines of a web designer and a web developer.

Websites contain different elements, including appearance, content, functionality, and usability. Each requires a different set of skills. A web designer focuses on what you see on a web page. A web developer focuses on what you can do on the website. Let’s look at the different properties. Continue reading Should You Hire a Web Designer or a Web Developer for Your Website? →

Adobe Labs and New Betas

Dreamweaver, General, Web Design, Website Development

Adobe Labs

http://labs.adobe.com

Adobe Labs provides you with the opportunity to experience and evaluate new and emerging innovations, technologies, and products from Adobe.

Labs fosters a collaborative software development process. This allows customers to become productive with new products and technologies faster and the Adobe development teams to respond and react to early feedback in order to shape the software in a way that meets the needs and expectations of the community.

At Adobe Labs, you’ll have access to resources such as:

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Adobe GoLive Replaced in 2008

Dreamweaver, General, Web Design, Website Development

Just incase you may have missed it…

Adobe has announced that it will discontinue its one-time flagship website creation tool, Adobe GoLive. The rumor mill has long held that Dreamweaver, a web development tool that came into the Adobe fold following the 2005 acquisition of Macromedia, would one day replace GoLive and now it seems that the day has finally arrived.

Although GoLive is still for sale on the Adobe site, Devin Fernandez, GoLive’s product manager, tells Macworld that the company believes Dreamweaver is a better fit for today’s web developer. Continue reading Adobe GoLive Replaced in 2008 →

Adobe’s Open Screen Project

Flash, General, Web Design, Website Development

The Adobe Open Screen Project is dedicated to driving consistent rich Internet experiences across televisions, personal computers, mobile devices, and consumer electronics. Adobe’s Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences, live and on-demand across a variety of devices.

The Adobe Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIR™ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes. Adobe’s Open Screen Project will also address potential technology fragmentation by allowing the runtime technology to be updated seamlessly over the air on mobile devices. The consistent runtime environment will provide optimal performance across a variety of operating systems and devices, and ultimately provide the best experience to consumers. Continue reading Adobe’s Open Screen Project →

Acrobat 8 In My Eyes

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With the release of many (if not all) of the Adobe CS3 Packages comes a nice new release of Adobe’s famous PDF creator, Acrobat. Throughout school I became familiar with Adobe Acrobat 7, using it to put together mockups of websites without needing to do any hard coding. Although it took a little while to get used to, once you know your whereabouts in the program it’s fairly easy to use. This is until the release of Acrobat 8.

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Is Flash on the iPhone FINALLY arriving?

Flash, General

On March 18, Adobe revealed its plans to begin development on an iPhone ready version of its proprietary media player, Flash. This came after Apple’s release of an iPhone software developer’s kit or SDK. There has been an ongoing controversy over how and when Flash, a now internet staple, would be supported by the popular handheld device.

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n00bs of the Industry Finding Their Way…

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Greetings-

As a soon to be graduate from a college institution, I find myself reflecting upon a time when advanced web design and new software presented itself as a giant question mark.  What to do, how to learn, what to learn, and methods of implementation all begged for answers, and for anyone venturing out on their own- these questions can be a little intimidating.  And just as eager young minds strive to find new techniques and design tricks,  every good designer is constantly learning, exploring, and probing for ways to beef up their skills. Continue reading n00bs of the Industry Finding Their Way… →

How to Use the Adobe Illustrator Eraser Tool

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When talking about the new features in Adobe’s newest release of its Creative Suite, no one can go without discussing the newly acquired “eraser” tool for Illustrator CS3. When working with vector graphics and images, nothing can be quite as frustrating as needing to trim up a layer/shape. Designers have been ever-longing for an easier route than make-shift divides and subtracts with the Pathfinder tool, or tedious adjustments of points and anchors with the pen tool. Now a user can very easily swipe pieces of vector shapes away, and are left with a just as beautiful vector in its place. Many speculate the slightly rough edge that it puts on, as almost no one can have that perfect curve when using a traditional mouse, but there are plenty of tools to help that, the easiest being the “Smoothing Tool” (looks like a pencil with lines all across it). To ensure a careful erase, make sure only the shapes in which you want to subtract from are selected. With the shapes selected just use the eraser tool similar to how you would in a photo editing program, such as Photoshop. This tool could quite possibly be the biggest advantage to the new release of Illustrator. Continue reading How to Use the Adobe Illustrator Eraser Tool →