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Thoughts on Adobe …A Parody of Mr. Jobs
This is a direct parody of Steve Jobs letter about Flash.It is intended to be thought provoking, insightful, and inciting. Being a Macintosh SE, iPhone, iPad, PowerMac, PowerBook, home built PC, Windows using web, Flash, print developer that has working in the training development, corporate marketing, and software development industries for too long… I couldn’t…
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HTML5 can’t replace Flash
I was talking to a co-worker today and had a realization. HTML5 can never replace flash. One of the primary goals of HTML and JavaScript is transparency, the accessibility to the code that drives the page. Exposing code so that others can learn from it. In fact this attribute is credited with the proliferation of…
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Web design presentation at Taylor Street Elementary
Today I did a presentation on web design and design process to my daughters’ gate classes. It was an exciting opportunity to offer their classes some insight into the exciting world of design and learning new technologies. So for any of the kids at Taylor Street Elementary reading this… I enjoyed speaking with you today,…
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Internet Explorer should die
Every now and then the festering issue of IE as a viable browser rears it’s ugly head. This eventuality usually occurs right around the release of a new version. Microsofts latest iteration, IE8, was slated to be released without standards mode being the default rendering mode. With all the progress that the web comunity has…
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Cool Actionscript…and it’s FREE!!!
I’ve got a few slick scripts that I thought I would share with the world. These are simple scripts for toggling buttons, and it works without components.
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Where is web design today?
Many people now rely on the web as a source for their lifestyles; research, maps, gossip, movie rentals, shopping. Now that this tool is so heavily used I thought it would be good to think about where it started, and where it is today from a design perspective. In the early days websites were pretty…
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Adobe Captivate V2 and V3 Review
Getting back to design and development topics I thought it would be valuable to offer my insight on this product. Being a courseware developer over the last 11 years or so, I’ve worked with a lot of tools. For most courses developing in either HTML, or Flash or a combination of both is my preferred…
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Updates..for everything!
Here it is, my site design is fractured and disjointed. I admit it. I added the blog capability, and started a gallery portion, and then never integrated everything together. Shame on me. So now that I have a lull in the storm of projects that were on my plate I am going to start working…
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Damn the Standards…Full speed ahead!
I was browsing through some sports coverage and ran across this link. It’s an amazing (read: bad) site that ignores all the standard rules of engagement in web design and development.
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Click to Activate Flash Still an Issue?
It’s amazing to me that sites that rely on Flash for their main navigation have not taken the steps to eliminate the “Click to activate and use this control” messages from their sites. If you haven’t seen this message before you must be avoiding flash sites. To recap: Eolas has a patent dispute with Microsoft,…