New Content In The Works

Well, it’s been a while since I posted as I have been really busy. For the few peo­ple who might have started to visit this site (I haven’t pub­li­cized it much yet), please know that I have been busy work­ing on a few things to add to the site.

First, I have been work­ing on some more pic­tures to add the pixel gallery, mostly sort­ing and work­ing on the best pics from our trip to Nova Scotia in August. I took well over 400 pic­tures dur­ing the trip and I am pleased with many of them. Look for­ward to a new sec­tion in the gallery soon.

The thing that has taken most of my time is the writ­ing of an arti­cle and a few tuto­ri­als to add to the still empty pixel forge sec­tion of the site. The arti­cle called “Why Choose Fireworks” is an in-​depth analy­sis of why I think Fireworks is by far the best Web graph­ics and site lay­outs design appli­ca­tion out there. It is far more than the glo­ri­fied slic­ing and opti­miza­tion tool many peo­ple see it as and this arti­cle attempts to set the record straight. I’m also tired of see­ing it com­pare to Photoshop (or worse, to ImageReady) when it is much more than that on many lev­els. This should be the first bit of con­tent going up in pixel forge soon.

I’m also work­ing on adap­ta­tions of two Photoshop tuto­ri­als includ­ing one about cre­at­ing a water­mark graphic for the new 1.2 ver­sion of SlideShowPro which is the Flash com­po­nent I use for pixel gallery. In addi­tion to that I have 5 more tuto­ri­als that are pretty much at the embry­onic stage right now, includ­ing a series that will be based on the ill-​fated Fireworks book I par­tic­i­pated in that was sup­posed to be released by Glasshaus before their demise. I was almost fin­ished with the two chap­ters I was writ­ing for that book and tech edit­ing was well under­way. I don’t want this mate­r­ial to go to waste so I’ll pub­lish it here eventually.

So, despite the lack of activ­ity on the pix­el­log, I’ve been busy writ­ing and tweak­ing things on the site behind the scenes. I’m start­ing to be very happy with it and can­not wait to have more con­tent to offer the com­mu­nity soon.

Later!