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There’s a VERY interesting new post from ex Adobe Illustrator Product Manager Mordy Golding on how Illustrator gets new features. He goes into great detail into the process of how a new version of an application as complex as Illustrator is planned and developed and what kind of criteria the team needs to weigh to decide what features …
Anyway, enough of the criticism for now. I really didn’t mean for my first comments on CS3 to be critical but this suites packaging issue has been bothering many people and I wanted to address it. I’ll soon post more about the new apps in CS3 themselves and explain why I think this is one of the best …
Just in the nick of time following the post I wrote yesterday, I made a trip to my local bookstore last night and I bough the new issue of Dynamic Graphics magazine (April/May). The issue’s focus is mainly on type but there is a entire article in the mag devoted to the issue I was …
There’s a lot of talk amongst users these days about the soon to be released Adobe Creative Suite 3 and how they have been separated into Web, Design and Production “flavours”. Many people think that this separation, especially the one between Web and Design (Print) is arbitrary and does not reflect the real life work flows …
Nice post from Kim Cavanaugh on his Brain Frieze blog today where he’s giving props to the Fireworks user community that has been working with Macromedia and now Adobe for years to improve Fireworks which resulted in the awesome new CS3 version. Like Kim, I have been a member of Fireworks’ Advisory Group for several years and I have …
While I work on giving this blog back the look of the rest of my site, let me explain why I decided to switch back to the BlogCFC software and give up on BlogFusion. First, both blogging apps are built with ColdFusion and that is an important reason I chose both of them at different …
It’s been a long time since I posted here. I mean a long time even for me ;-) If you read this soon after it was posted you’ll see that I have gone back to bloging using Ray Camden’s BlogCFC and the layout of the blog is BlogCFC’s default skin. I wanted to wait until …
Introduction When choosing a graphic application for creating Web site layouts and graphics, designers are confronted with many choices between very different types of applications. As Web professionals, we need powerful and flexible tools that are well adapted to our unique requirements because, even with the best of planning, we often need to make design …
I was reading some feeds in FeedDemon today when i came upon this announcement on Alan Musselman’s blog about the new Fireworks Design Center on Adobe’s site. The existing Fireworks Developer Center will remain but will now focus on developer issues (like programming extensions) while design related Fireworks content (articles, tutorials) will be published in the …
Yes, I know that I’m repeating myself and I know that this is obvious to most of you. But apparently it’s not obvious to many and I think it’s worth repeating. Recently I started to see a lot of the misconceptions about Fireworks I have been talking about here and which prompted me to write this …