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Playing with Fire
March 20th, 2004 | Tags: web design

Create a collage with Fireworks is a step-by-step tutorial shows you a few techniques that will come in handy when you design with Fireworks. Macromedia’s site also has posted a few Dreamweaver MX 2004 CSS tips covering classes, IDs, and rounded corners in just a few pages worth of content. [ Via InformIT ]
Involving Marketing
March 19th, 2004 |

Some projects are destined to fail because they only involve the IT team in the Web design decision making process. IT should have little involvement as their only purpose is to provide information on servers, hosting, space, etc. or taking care of purchasing of such. It’s the marketing people that need to be involved from the [...]
Game Addiction
March 18th, 2004 | Tags: entertainment

When I am away from the computer and can’t do any work, this is what I am doing. I can’t stop playing!!! (249990) It’s been helpful as I’ve come down with something and am on antibiotics. So I sit in bed or on the sofa playing the game.
Maccessibility
March 17th, 2004 | Tags: Tech

Apple has announced the next release of Mac OS X will introduce Spoken Interface for Mac OS X, which provides a combination of spoken and visual cues, and keyboard navgiation to help those with sight impairments. < p>More discussion in MacRumors forums and in BusinessWeek .
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004
March 15th, 2004 | Tags: web design

Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 updater is available, all 20 megs of it (22 for Macs). On the updater page are links to information on the update. Quickly, it has three key improvements: performance and stability, restoration of the timelines feature, bug fixes. When I first tested the beta version, I was impressed with the improved CSS [...]
T3 Lovin’
March 14th, 2004 | Tags: Tech

I haven’t been a happy camper in a while, so buying the Tungsten T3 was worth it as it gave me something to get excited about. I’m in geek love! Been a PalmOSer since the Palm Pilot 1000 came out. Scrambling to find a case and I spent a lot of time reading a lot of [...]
Redesign Case Study
March 14th, 2004 | Tags: web design

Here’s a great case study from D. Keith Robinson, one of the great people I met at Digital Web Magazine. I think case studies are an excellent way to learn as I learn from example. I had an adventure trying to help with a redesign yesterday.
Choosing Software for PalmOS
March 11th, 2004 | Tags: Tech

I got me a new toy! It’s charged and I have to wait till I get home from work to load the software before I can start fiddling with it. Came across Choose the right software for your Palm and it highlights all the tips I typically follow when deciding whether or not a software is [...]
InformIT Redesign
March 8th, 2004 | Tags: web design

InformIT has been redesigned and it works much better and loads faster as it now uses CSS for positioning and transitional XHTML. It has a few quirks needing tweaking, but at least the major problems have been addressed and those on alternative devices can read it. The sections are continuously being updated or getting new sections. [...]
Oh No, Not Another Social Network
March 6th, 2004 | Tags: Leftovers

AOL Jumps into the social network craze with ICQ Universe. No, I won’t do it. I am not going to register and bug people again. Orkut was the last straw. [ Via Smart Mobs ] It’s time to work with the ones you have signed up for and make the most out of them. Ryze has [...]