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Adobe Muse Now Available

pfiffner — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:26:00 -0600

Last week I wrote about two upcoming products that can be downloaded from Adobe Labs — Muse and Edge.

While Edge is still very much in development, Muse is now available for purchase.

Muse is a Website-creation tool with a WYSIWYG interface and the process used is much like Adobe InDesign.

Adobe Will Fix Security Holes in CS5.5 Apps

pfiffner — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:50:00 -0600

Adobe found itself in hot water last week when it announced its plan to help users overcome a security flaw in key Creative Suite 5.5 applications. The solution? Upgrade to CS6.

The applications affected — Flash Professional, Illustrator, and Photoshop — have security holes that let hackers take control of your system after you open a malicious file, for example, a .TIF file in Photoshop. Versions 5.5 and earlier on both Mac and Windows are vulnerable.

Dispatch from Adobe: Beta Software Worth Noting

pfiffner — Thu, 10 May 2012 13:07:54 -0600

While at Adobe this week, I was able to gain hands-on experience with Adobe's Creative Suite 6 software for design and for the Web (I didn't attend the day devoted to video). Yesterday I reported on the graphics used to promote CS6. Let's turn to the software.

After working with CS6 for two days, I'm convinced that this release is its most impressive in years. Every product has had major additions and some applications have had major overhauls. By the end of two days my head was spinning with possibilities.

Free For All: Infographic Freebies

pfiffner — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:25:00 -0600

Infographics are all the rage. If you don't know the term, it refers to a type of information presentation that uses symbols, text, and rich design to communicate concepts, ideas, and statistics in a highly engaging way. In other words, it's the result of a client handing a designer a spreadsheet full of data and saying, "make this interesting and easy to understand for real people." Ah, if only all client projects were like that…

Adobe CS6 Downpour Begins

pfiffner — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:00:00 -0600

Today Adobe took the wraps off its upcoming Creative Suite 6 applications and, perhaps more significantly, its new Creative Cloud subscription service.

Creative Suite 6

The State of E-book Typography

pfiffner — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:45:00 -0600

If you look at the size of the type most people choose for their Kindle, iPad, or any other device used for reading e-books, you’ll see that it tends to resemble that in books for people with vision problems. Logical enough, because when you’re reading an e-book — especially on a computer monitor — you do indeed have vision problems, compounded by poorly set type.

Web Design How-To: Get Started with Responsive Web Design

TerriStone — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 01:47:00 -0600

With the introduction and proliferation of smart phones and tablets, the way websites are designed is changing. As more websites are visited by users of tablets and phones, your design has to accommodate a myriad of screen sizes. In more traditional web design workflows, designers and developers target a specific screen width, then let smaller devices invoke pinch-and-zoom actions to change the size of the page and in so doing allow visitors to explore your page more extensively.

View Source: The Easy Way to Add Dynamic Elements to Web Sites

admin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:56:09 -0600

Until recently, you probably only used the word "spry" to describe an aging yet still nimble person. But Dreamweaver CS3 introduced the world to a new meaning of the word: an exciting set of tools based on Adobe's Spry Framework for Ajax. Spry is a set of JavaScript files that let you easily add dynamic elements, such as drop-down navigation menus, tabbed panels, and interactive data tables, to a Web page. The Spry framework isn't actually a part of Dreamweaver -- it's a separate Adobe project.

View Source: Designing and Testing Sites for Internet Explorer 8

TerriStone — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:42:49 -0600

Internet Explorer 8 is out! It’s faster than earlier versions of IE, and it has loads of new features to improve the Web browsing experience for Windows users. But for us Web designers, IE8 brings both good news and some bad news.

First, the good news: IE8 provides nearly complete support for CSS 2.1, which brings that browser’s CSS support more in line with Firefox and Safari and lets you use new CSS tricks on a wider audience. In addition, improvements to how the browser handles JavaScript can mean speed improvements for sites that rely on JavaScript.

Learn Flash CS4

TerriStone — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:30:38 -0600

If you're a Flash designer or developer picking up Flash CS4 Professional for the first time, or a user upgrading from a prior version, you'll want O'Reilly's newest publication, Learning Flash CS4 Professional: Getting Up to Speed with Flash ($44.99), by your side.

Save Smart Phone Photos from Disaster

TerriStone — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:45:00 -0700

For anyone who's nervous about losing photos from a smart phone — and who isn't — the folks at Dropbox have a new solution: automatic upload of your images into your Dropbox folder. Dropbox, if you're not familiar with it, is an online storage locker for your files. You sign up for an account (free for 2 GB up to $19.99/month for 100GB) and you get access to a personal Dropbox folder on which you can store your digital data.

Adobe Slashes Prices on Web and Production Suites, Lightroom

TerriStone — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:17:00 -0700

Adobe continues to clean out its pre-CS6 product inventory with special deals on three packages: Creative Suite 5.5 Web Premium and CS5.5 Production and Lightroom 3 are all available at 50 percent off. Additionally, Adobe has extended its deal of 20 percent off CS5.5 upgrades until March 15.

Quark Takes Design and Marketing to the Cloud

TerriStone — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:24:00 -0700

Last week Quark introduced a new enterprise solution that at first may not appear to have any relevance to many creative pros. But behind the announcement of Quark Brand Manager are some interesting ideas that may one day affect how you work.

Pentagram Designs New Windows Logo

TerriStone — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:47:00 -0700

By now you've probably seen the new logo for Microsoft Windows. The blogosphere has been buzzing about it, and some of the commentary is less than flattering.

Best of the Blogs: August 1, 2011

TerriStone — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:31:01 -0600

Don't have time to read scores of blogs every day? Don't worry, I've done it for you, and picked out the best posts you shouldn't miss.

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