Archive for January, 2006

Web Site Design Impacts Online Sales

The recent release of the Top 40 Online Retail Satisfaction Index, a study produced by ForeSee Results and FGI Research, revealed that consumer satisfaction with most of the top 40 retail Web sites dropped over the holiday season. In fact, overall consumer satisfaction is down 4 percent from earlier in 2005.
Beyond higher holiday expectations for [...]

Web Design Company Searching for Australia’s Worst Website

Web Smart Central, a Brisbane-based web development company is searching for the worst business web site in Australia to award a $2,000 complete website renovation.
Surprisingly with more businesses embracing the internet and coming online every day, there are just as many business websites that are misguided and don’t deliver a return for the business owners, [...]

Lonely : 3 Column Blogger Template

Lonely Blogger Template Design for Blogspot powered Blog. Another 3 column blogger template
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Alien Skin Software Releases Exposure (TM)

Alien Skin Software today released Exposure, an all-new plug-in for Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) and other compatible host programs. Exposure brings the look and feel of film to digital photography. Digital photographers can now simulate current and discontinued film stocks, as well as recreate their signature look as a one-click effect. Exposure also simulates darkroom and studio [...]

Camera Raw 3.3 plug-in for Photoshop CS2 released

Adobe released the new version of Camera Raw 3.3 plug-in for Photoshop CS2 , and the official release has been posted on Adobe’s download servers. Support for the processing of RAW files from 17 new cameras has been added since v3.2, including the Canon EOS 5D, EOS-1D Mark II N and EOS 20Da, as [...]

Digital Video Professionals Association (DVPA) Launches New Online Adobe Production Studio Resource Center

The Digital Video Professionals Association (DVPA) announced that it has launched an online resource center devoted to the newly introduced Adobe Production Studio, an extension of the Adobe Creative Suite family of products. The new DVPA Adobe Production Studio Resource Center is provided free-of-charge at the association Web site located at www.dvpa.org.
The Adobe Production Studio [...]

links for 2006-01-19

Adobe Spot :: Your Spot for Adobe Tutorials
This is a technique that you have probably seen before. A face, or picture, is made up of a huge body of text, but the text is different colors or shades to make it look like the picture? Yea, it’s a really cool technique, and now you can [...]

Adobe Bundles for design, web, and video professionals

Adobe Introduced three new product bundles that will help you create rich interactive experiences and compelling content in print, on the web, in video, and across mobile devices. Together, these bundles offer a powerful combination of tools and resources that will expand your creative options and help you start realizing your ideas faster than ever [...]

Study reveals Web Design’s importance in the eye of the user

Dr Gitte Lindgaard and colleagues from Carleton University in Ottawa conducted a study on the behaviour of Internet users. It seems that users can take just one-twentieth of a second to decide whether they like the look of a website.
“Visual appeal can be assessed within 50 milliseconds, suggesting that web designers have about 50 milliseconds [...]

CorelDraw Graphics Suite X3

Corel Corporation announced Tuesday the newest version of its graphics suite, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3, which will be available in February.
The new suite, which encompasses CorelDraw X3, Corel Photo-Paint X3, Pixmantec RawShooter Essential, CorelCapture X3 and CorelDraw Handbook, also includes 10,000 clip art and digital images, 1,000 OpenType fonts, 100 templates, as well as [...]