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, [...]

January 29th, 2006 | No Comments »

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 [...]

January 19th, 2006 | No Comments »

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 [...]

January 19th, 2006 | No Comments »

Web Developer Extension for Firefox and Flock

An essential extension for any web developer/designer as it provides a raft of incredibly useful features all under one roof. You will wonder how you ever managed without it! A must have for web developers
The web developer extension for Firefox is just perfect for many tasks, for example: fixing layout problems on your web pages; [...]

January 15th, 2006 | No Comments »

Macromedia Studio 8

Macromedia Studio 8 is a complete toolkit for Web designers and animators, and it introduces new features that will make creative mouths water. Many digital content makers can find their way around Macromedia software in their sleep, but the upgrade to Studio 8 makes common tasks easier to execute for those without coding expertise. The [...]

January 12th, 2006 | No Comments »

Adobe Releases New Flash Animation

Adobe Systems Inc. has released Macromedia Flash Lite 2 and Macromedia Flash Player SDK 7, software tools that enable developers to incorporate embedded software based on Flash animation into mobile phones and other handheld devices.
Flash Player SDK 7 is optimized for consumer electronic devices, enabling consumer electronics manufacturers, system integrators and browser companies to create [...]

January 9th, 2006 | No Comments »

Software Cinema Unveils Adobe® Photoshop CS2 Interactive DVD Training Series Featuring Katrin Eismann Covering Photograph Restoration

From the news release:
Software Cinema, a leading software training company supporting the imaging industry of photographers, videographers and graphic artists, today announced the latest interactive training series on DVD-ROM featuring Adobe’s “Photoshop Diva” Katrin Eismann. Developed for the intermediate to professional photographer, this 8 hour tutorial is a comprehensive guide for digitally restoring faded [...]

January 8th, 2006 | No Comments »

Yahoo’s hosting clients get blogging software

Yahoo Inc. will make available to subscribers of its Web hosting services the open-source WordPress blog publishing software.
The deal is similar to one Yahoo struck before with Six Apart Ltd., maker of Moveable Type, and is intended to broaden the blogging software options accessible to individuals and companies that use Yahoo to host their Web [...]

January 4th, 2006 | No Comments »

Fireworks 8 : Web graphics application is now sleeker and more refined

The freshly released Macromedia Fireworks 8 remains the tool of choice for designers who need to think like engineers and engineers who think like designers.
Fireworks 8 features subtle as well as obvious enhancements to optimization, workflow, and creativity. Its powerful editing capabilities allow changes in one Macromedia Studio application to be reflected in other [...]

January 4th, 2006 | No Comments »

Small Websites, Great Results

Small Websites, Great Results is the perfect book for today because many businesses are beginning to understand the need and wisdom of simplicity. This book shows readers that bigger is not necessarily better and that there is a proven method for building sites that require less resources but produce fantastic results. The author’s mantra [...]

December 27th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Enhanced Web Design and DTP with Mapsoft’s Thumbnails Adobe Acrobat Plug-In

Company websites, reports and marketing material customised for enhanced accessibility and more effective marketing
Businesses wishing to improve their website and enable visitors to navigate quickly and easily through company credentials, reports and product information can do so with Thumbnails, an Acrobat customisation plug-in from software development specialist Mapsoft.
Thumbnails is an ideal tool for use in [...]

December 26th, 2005 | No Comments »

Web Design Company Searching for the Worst Website

Intechnic Corporation, a Chicago-based web development company is searching for the worst business web site to award a $10,000 makeover.
Have you ever had a frustrating online experience where you couldn’t find what you were looking for, couldn’t place an order, or even find the order button? Intechnic Corporation is searching for the worst business website [...]

December 26th, 2005 | No Comments »