A Quick Review of Fireworks CS5

Unless you’ve been hid­ing under a rock, or you are not a Web designer or work­ing in a related field, you can­not have missed the announce­ment of Adobe’s new Creative Suite 5 a few weeks ago. I have been using two prod­ucts in the suite for a while now, includ­ing of course, Fireworks CS5. As is becom­ing a tra­di­tion here on pix​e​lyzed​.com,…

Is Using WordPress Themes Frameworks Cheating at Web Design?

I read a very inter­est­ing arti­cle over the week­end titled “Are WordPress Themes Cheating in Web Design?” by James Dalman. That arti­cle itself was inspired by an older one titled “Confessions of a Template Whore” by Sabrina Dent which is equally inter­est­ing. The point of this post is not to rehash the same ideas as these two…

Dreamweaver CS5 and PHP

I just read a very inter­est­ing review of Dreamweaver CS5 writ­ten by David Powers. David is some­one I have known for many years and he has writ­ten many books related to PHP. He is some­one who’s opin­ion I trust. So his review of Dreamweaver CS5 was of par­tic­u­lar inter­est to me as I am now fully embrac­ing the WordPress…

My Journey to WordPress — New Design Up!

As I already explained pre­vi­ously, on April 5th (2010), I migrated pix​e​lyzed​.com from another blog­ging plat­form to WordPress. Last night I changed from the free theme I’d been using to my own new design which I inte­grated into WordPress using the Thesis theme (more about Thesis below).

Better Defaults v2 Axure RP Library Released

My friend Loren Baxter who is an Interaction Designer and UX Engineer and owns the site “A Clean Design” has just released ver­sion 2.0 of his fan­tas­tic “Better Defaults” library of wid­gets for Axure RP 5.5 and higher.