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Flash Professional CS5 Review
Flash Professional CS5 is still a phenomenal application that created an entire industry, but the fragmentation of the mobile market and the expanding Flash Platform has made its future unpredictable.
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Dreamweaver CS5 Review
Now that I've worked with Dreamweaver CS5 for months, I've concluded that its new features really bring a new focus to the application.
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Dreamweaver CS5 First Impressions
The Dreamweaver team has once again focused its efforts on CSS and live/dynamic webpage handling, making Dreamweaver CS5 very similar to Dreamweaver CS4 but a lot more useful for designers handling CSS and dynamic systems.
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DVD REVIEW: “For A Beautiful Web” DVD Series
The three-disk For A Beautiful Web DVD series is a very nice resource for web designers, with roughly two hours per disk on three important topics: CSS, microformats and web accessibility.
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BOOK REVIEW: SEO Warrior
A book for advanced users wanting to learn more about search engine optimization (SEO).
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BOOK REVIEW: The Art of SEO and The Art of Community
There are a lot of books on the market about social media, online communities and search engine optimization, and these two books offer thorough surveys of their respective topics.
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BOOK REVIEW: Designing With Web Standards, 3rd Ed.
Zeldman's writing is sharp and clear as always, and the third edition is an essential read for those new to web design or web standards.
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BOOK REVIEW: Complete Web Monitoring
Alistair Croll and Sean Power have written an interesting book that I think speaks more to marketing directors and businesspeople than to web designers and developers.
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BOOK REVIEW: High Performance Web Sites
I don't give out perfect ratings very often, but I did for Even Faster Web Sites and I will do the same for High Performance Web Sites.
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99 Free Valentine’s Day Fonts
Designorati romanced every free font resource, sampled every heart-shaped box of chocolatey, type treats, and arranged this bouquet of 99 ways to type "I love you."
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Photoshop/Premiere Elements 8: New technologies, same ease of use
Photoshop Elements 8 and Premiere Elements 8 are interesting upgrades because some cutting-edge technology from the professional-grade Creative Suite 4 (CS4) has migrated to the Elements consumer lineup.
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Video from the Sneak Peeks event at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles. Cutting-edge new technology from Adobe, perhaps coming to the next Creative Suite.
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Adobe MAX, Day One
Day one of Adobe MAX is nearing the end of sessions and the beginning of networking and fun—pizza and beer with the software product teams, and an afterparty for the press hounds. (...)
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Impressions on Adobe MAX Keynote
I’m here at the keynote, listening to Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch talk about the Flash Innovation Timeline. (...)
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This book provides a good foundation for developing dynamic Web pages using PHP and MySQL.
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Cederholm’s “Handcrafted CSS” Is An Enjoyable Read
Dan Cederholm made his name with Bulletproof Web Design; in Handcrafted CSS he dives deeper into the craftsmanship of web design.
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BOOK REVIEW: Even Faster Web Sites
The optimization tricks in this book aren't well-known, which makes it a great read for novices and experts alike.
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It always surprises me how these small books O'Reilly publishes can contain so much handy material. Using Google App Engine is just one more example, but it might cover too many topics.
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Reviewing An Old Favorite: Steve Krug’s Don’t Make Me Think
One of the classics of web design literature is due for a third edition.
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AKQA demonstrates how to create fireworks effects with Flash CS4 Professional. One of a three-part tutorial series!
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AgencyNet demonstrates how to create fireworks effects with Flash CS4 Professional. One of a three-part tutorial series!
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Enric Godes of Vasava demonstrates how to create fireworks effects with Flash CS4 Professional. One of a three-part tutorial series!
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Adobe Web Apps, Part 2: BrowserLab
Testing websites for multiple browsers is essential. Adobe is producing one more tool to make the task easier.
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Adobe Web Apps, Part 1: InContext Editing
With all the content management systems on the Internet, is there a place for InContext Editing?
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BOOK REVIEW: Three Books On After Effects CS4
These three books provide a balanced foundation for learning After Effects, for both beginners and experts.
