Web Design & Development

Over a year ago, I posted an article describing my Font Management Woes and my search for the perfect font management application on the Windows platform. For many years, that market has been dominated on the Mac side mostly by Extensis Suitcase Fusion and for good reason. Suitcase is a fantastic font management application with…

Dan Harrelson from Adaptive Path has written a very interesting blog post titled Rapid Prototyping Tools and what makes good prototypes. My long time favorite Adobe Fireworks is mentionned along with Axure RP Pro  (which is a newer tool in my arsenal) but also several others including online tools like Balsamiq Mockups . What is most interesting to me in…

The new version 5.5 of Axure RP Pro has been released a couple days ago after being in public beta for a few months. It’s a very significant upgrade in terms of new features and is free for existing customers with a current license. Noteworthy features include the ability to load and create external widget…

The upcoming 5.5 version of Axure RP Pro has been made public and is available for download. For anyone who’s been interested by Axure and wanted to try it, now is a great time to do so. The beta is rock solid and, if I understand the following blog post on Axure’s site correctly, it…

As I mentioned in my recent ” My Top 10 Web Design Tools ” post, I have started using Axure RP Pro for creating highly interactive prototypes, wireframes, site maps , flow charts and specifications. It is a fantastic application with a lot of depth that can create very complex prototypes. Axure also has a…

There is a meme popping on Twitter and the blogosphere where some Web professionals are wondering if it is a good thing to listen to music while working or not. I had been reflecting on that very thing recently so this comes at a timely moment for me. Of course, to a point this comes…

I had already started working on a blog post with my top 10 most useful Web design tools but, like many other things these days, I had continually postponed finishing it in favor of “more important things”. Like client work… ;-) But I saw a post today on the Visualrinse blog that tackled the same…

An overview of the last year on pixelyzed.com Now that 2008 is just about to start, I thought it would be a good idea to write a pixelyzed.com style year end review. There’s been a lot of activity in our little world last year as well as in other areas of the software industry. Throughout…