Articles by Beth Dean

Open the doors to real communication I was traveling to work by train, as usual...

2006-Nov-03 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Find out what’s going on this week in web design. Adobe Opines on how the web is changing Hollywood...

2006-Jul-21 | Beth Dean | Filed: Web Design | Features | News

With the standards war coming to an end many designers find themselves forced to draw the proverbial line in the sand, and ultimately determining what level of standards and accessibility knowledge they want to possess...

2006-Jul-05 | Beth Dean | Filed: Web Design | Features

A few weeks ago we learned how to load dynamic text in Flash. So what if your external text file has more characters than your text field, or the amount of text fluctuates...

2006-Mar-14 | Beth Dean | Filed: Web Design | Tutorials | TOP STORIES

Loading external MovieClips is one of the easiest ways to keep your SWF file size down and and load times low...

2006-Feb-28 | Beth Dean | Filed: Web Design | Tutorials

I want to use RSS, I really do. I just don’t have a reason

2006-Feb-08 | Beth Dean | Filed: Have You Seen

Why I don’t use RSS. I want to use RSS, I really do. I just don’t have a reason...

2006-Feb-02 | Beth Dean | Filed: Web Design | Features

Flash efficiency maven Beth Dean shows you 6 painless steps to building dynamic Flash driven by simple .TXT files. Dynamic Flash text doesn’t have to hurt

2006-Feb-01 | Beth Dean | Filed: Have You Seen

Dynamic Flash doesn’t have to hurt, I promise...

2006-Jan-31 | Beth Dean | Filed: Web Design | Tutorials | TOP STORIES

Don’t believe everything you learned in journalism school; becoming great at headline design is a learning process with a lot of room for flexibility and creativity...

2006-Jan-31 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | Tutorials

A lot of designers don’t have the luxury of choosing the optimal work space, but just because you don’t have an Aeron chair doesn’t mean you can’t be comfortable and productive...

2006-Jan-17 | Beth Dean | Filed: Web Design | Tutorials

Doing the lunch break with coworkers, especially when everyone’s engrossed in important projects, isn’t always as easy as phoning in an order...

2006-Jan-17 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | Tutorials

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 Quark announced the launch of the QuarkXPress 7 public beta program...

2006-Jan-11 | Beth Dean | Filed: Have You Seen

Tiger 10.4...

2006-Jan-10 | Beth Dean | Filed: Have You Seen

MacoBook panel at the MacWorld conference The fastest notebook ever… The Powerbook is dead, viva la MacBook Pro...

2006-Jan-10 | Beth Dean | Filed: Have You Seen

Even if belated, here is an overview of the most powerful publishing package I have ever come across Adobe Creative Suite 2—it’s like the Christmas present I always wanted when I was a kid but that I would never find under the tree, the water in the hot desert the… publishing package that I have always only dreamed of… until Adobe released it...

2005-Dec-22 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | Reviews

Does Ajax help our users or help ourselves? Would Jakob Nielsen just say no to Ajax...

2005-Dec-14 | Beth Dean | Filed: Web Design | Features

The popular social bookmarking service Del.icio.us announces today they’ve joined Yahoo, and look forward to new features and improvements...

2005-Dec-09 | Beth Dean | Filed: Creative Culture | Web Design | Features

The PSD (Photoshop Document) format is becoming the most utilized format especially amongst the Creative Suite users Due to the versatility of the PSD format, its employment spans through several disciplines of design Over are the times when designers need to store two versions of the same file...

2005-Dec-07 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Macromedia is no longer, Adobe is already promoting its new bundles. Some programs might cease to exist, others might be repurposed, but how does all this affect the print designer...

2005-Dec-06 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | News

How to get a smoother edge on type created in Fireworks Sometimes it’s necessary to create graphics with text for the web, but often times the results for simple text are choppy...

2005-Dec-06 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | Web Design | Tutorials

Goodbye Macromedia. Last week Adobe completed their acquisition of Macromedia...

2005-Dec-05 | Beth Dean | Filed: Have You Seen

Listen to the company that listens Hate it or love it, Quark is changing...

2005-Nov-25 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Adobe proides an excellent guide to transparency for print designers Many designers and printers especially fear the transparency options in InDesign and Illustrator...

2005-Nov-18 | Beth Dean | Filed: Graphic Design | Features

Intellectual property rights are important and affect everyone in the design industry...

2005-Nov-16 | Beth Dean | Filed: Have You Seen