Web Design & Layout

Silverlight 4 Now in Public Beta

Just three months after delivering Silverlight 3, Silverlight 4 goes into public beta. Download it for free.

Adobe AIR 2 & Flash Player 10.1 Beta Now Available

New Flash Platform Runtimes Set Stage for Contextual Applications Across Devices

Free For All: Winter Holidays Edition

Whatever winter event you're designing for, you'll want these free fonts, clip art, stock photos, and WordPress and Blogger templates.

Web Fonts: The Experts Speak

Imagine you could design a Web site using typefaces beyond the boring usual system font choices and be sure viewers would see what you intended.

WebCrusher 1.6 Makes Your Website Load Faster

RAGE Software's WebCrusher 1.6 for Mac OS X reduces a website's load time. Now users can simply drop their website onto WebCrusher and let it quickly remove all unneeded code from their webpages.

New Coroflot Designer Salary Survey Available

Find out how you stack up against others, and what to expect if you're just entering the field.

Use Real Fonts on Web Sites

Typekit bills itself as the "easiest way to use real fonts on the web." It's now out of beta and open to everyone.

An Event Apart 2010 Registration Now Open

The Web design and development conference will visit five cities in 2010 and is always a valuable learning opportunity.

Jumsoft Introduces a New Version of Aperture Themes

Aperture Themes 2.0 lets Mac users explore new ways of communicating their love for photography, and offers an extensive collection of design options for arranging their photos and pictures in Web galleries. Ten new styles have been added to the six designs from the previous version.

Safely Export Pictures from QuarkXPress

This process is ideal when you want to give a Web developer pictures that you cropped, rotated, or altered in QuarkXPress. It's also useful for converting a picture from one file format or color space to another.

Two Flash Apps for the Price of One

Buy Flash'In'App and get Flash Optimizer for free. Flash'In'App is a Cocoa framework for managing Adobe Flash movies in any application on Mac OS X. Flash Optimizer compresses SWF files up to 60-70%. Both are Mac-only.

Flash Design with QuarkXPress 8

A free 45-minute webinar introduces QuarkXPress users to the interactive capabilities of their software.

Graphics Gone Green

"Graphics Gone Green" is for creative professionals interested in building sustainable workflows from concept to output. The ebook shows how to reduce your carbon footprint at work while running a profitable business.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 & 4 Run on Windows 7

There's good news on the compatibility front. However, note that if you're upgrading to Windows 7 from an earlier Windows version, you may be required to reinstall your Creative Suite product.

Adobe eSeminar: The Future of Design

This free webinar features Will Eisley, Adobe's director of product management for design. It will be on Tuesday, November 10, 2009, from 10 AM to 11 AM PST.

Free For All: An Awesome Assortment

Turn your handwriting into a font, get photos, add a store to a Web site, keep track of keyboard shortcuts, and add cartoon bubbles to Photoshop files. And as always, all for free!

Develop iPhone Apps in Flash CS5

Using the upcoming Flash Professional CS5, you'll be able to build Flash files that can be exported to run as native iPhone code on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Those same Flash files can also be exported to run on the more traditional Flash Player and Adobe AIR platforms.

Gluon Updates LiveEdit

LiveEdit, a Flash-based web application, closes the gap between desktop and webtop publishing.

Free For All: Textures

This large assortment of free downloadable textures includes paper, wood, bricks, grass, fabric, and more.

Combine Illustrator Patterns with Photoshop Masks for Instant Visual Appeal

With this technique, you can create eye-catching imagery without fancy plug-ins or big stock photo budgets.