Making News with Web standards

Making News with Web standards Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Jim Ramsey Published on October 27, 2004 The San Francisco Examiner recently became one of the first newspapers in the country to fully adopt Web standards and publish a site that utilizes valid … Read more

Making Cents from Information Architecture

Making Cents from Information Architecture Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > The $ & Sense of IT By Alan K’necht Published on January 22, 2003 When it comes to Web development, everybody has taken short cuts over the years. This holds especially true when … Read more

Making a Timeless User Experience

Making a Timeless User Experience Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Wide Open By David Wertheimer Published on October 15, 2002 Providing good user experience takes more than drawing handsome icons for people who don’t read. One has to think in all directions to … Read more

Main Themes from the 2003 IA Summit

Main Themes from the 2003 IA Summit Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > IAnything Goes By Jeff Lash Published on April 17, 2003 At the 2003 annual Information Architecture Summit, information architects and related practitioners and educators from around the world converged on Portland, … Read more

Macromedia Studio MX 2004

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Macromedia Studio MX 2004 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on April 14, 2004 Although the name is ridiculously convoluted, Macromedia’s flagship suite of software has really matured into the most formidable Web design package out there. Considering … Read more

Macromedia Homesite 5

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Macromedia Homesite 5 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Nick Finck Published on January 3, 2002 I’m one of those guys who refuses to give up the practice of doing markup by hand, thus when I first got news of the … Read more

Macromedia Freehand /files/includes/10.css

Macromedia Freehand /files/includes/10.css Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on August 14, 2001 Not too long ago the competition between professional vector illustration programs was fierce. The big software developers (in this case Adobe, Macromedia, and Corel) offered … Read more

Review: Macromedia Flex and Flex Builder

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Review: Macromedia Flex and Flex Builder Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Marc A. Garrett Published on September 22, 2004 The Debate: Whither Web applications? Read any blog this fall and you’ll see that one of the most hotly contested issues … Read more

Macromedia Flash MX

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Macromedia Flash MX Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on May 1, 2002 The newest version of Macromedia Flash brings with it a new naming scheme that will be shared across the full line of forthcoming Macromedia products. … Read more

Macromedia Flash 5

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Macromedia Flash 5 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on March 5, 2001 Who would have thought a few years back that a little app known as FutureSplash Animator would come to dominate the world of web animation? … Read more

Macromedia Fireworks 4 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on July 10, 2001 This latest installment of Fireworks is raised t

Macromedia Fireworks 4 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on July 10, 2001 This latest installment of Fireworks is raised to the current standard of Macromedia’s other products and offers some impressive and easy-to-use enhancements. Although there is … Read more

Macromedia Fireworks 3

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Macromedia Fireworks 3 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on July 9, 2000 Macromedia’s Fireworks 3 remains a strong contender among web design production tools, and offers many features that make it an attractive alternative to its main … Read more

Macromedia Dreamweaver 4

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Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on June 20, 2001 Dreamweaver 4 enhances an already solid product with new features that make it easier to design, build and maintain websites. Although the features added in … Read more

Macromedia Dreamweaver 3

Macromedia Dreamweaver 3 Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Reviews > Product Reviews By Jesse Nieminen Published on August 28, 1999 Macromedia has upped the ante on WYSIWYG website development with the release of Dreamweaver 3™. The improvements and new features are certainly worth the upgrade … Read more

Losability vs. Usability

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Losability vs. Usability Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Garth A. Buchholz, BA, CUA Published on July 11, 2005 The rules of Web design can be summed up in two words: Whatever works. In other words, if your Web design is based on a … Read more

Look Before You Ask

Look Before You Ask Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Wide Open By David Wertheimer Published on July 23, 2002 When I go grocery shopping, the first thing I do when I get in the door is hang a sharp turn to the customer … Read more

Liquid Web Design: Build it right

Liquid Web Design: Build it right and it will work no matter what the container. Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Nick Finck Published on August 29, 1999 Glenn Davis once said, “Webpage building is a lot like bar tending. Build it right and … Read more

Lance Arthur

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Lance Arthur Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Nick Finck Published on May 14, 2001 Back in 1996 I found a site that inspired me not only because of its design, but also because of its content. The excellence shown on that site and … Read more

Kelly Goto

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Kelly Goto Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Meryl K. Evans Published on January 26, 2005 The Book Digital Web: Congratulations on releasing a new edition of your book, Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works. In the introduction, it states it’s not a how-to … Read more

Kelly Goto

Kelly Goto Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Interviews By Craig Saila Published on March 5, 2003 Digital Web: In the lean-and-mean times of the post-dot-com period, return on investment (ROI) has become much more important. What are some of the immediate effects of this on … Read more

Keep JavaScript Simple

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Keep JavaScript Simple Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Keep It Simple By Peter-Paul Koch Published on July 25, 2003 On a few occasions, Java programmers mailed me the URLs of the JavaScript libraries they had created, asking me to take a look at … Read more

Keep it simple, stupid!

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Keep it simple, stupid! Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Articles By Pär Almqvist Published on June 14, 2001 The Dalai Lama once said that simplicity is the key to happiness in the modern world. This philosophy can be adapted into the realm of web design … Read more

Keep it Simple

Keep it Simple Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Keep It Simple By Peter-Paul Koch Published on August 26, 2002 The first site I made as a professional web developer used 17 frames. My first professional assignment was coding the World Press Photo site. … Read more

Keep CSS Simple

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Keep CSS Simple Got something to say? Share your comments on this topic with other web professionals In: Columns > Keep It Simple By Peter-Paul Koch Published on November 6, 2003 When I wrote my first Keep it Simple column I assumed the old, overly-complex way of looking at Web site creation was on the … Read more