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Archive for March, 2008
AIGA Las Vegas: Web Design Using Photoshop CS3 & Dreamweaver CS3

I’m speaking at the AIGA meeting in Las Vegas  and will be tackling web design from a print designer’s perspective. It’s going to be great! Here’s the description as well as a link: Do you design your Web sites in Photoshop® and then rely on a developer to interpret the design online? Do you feel like your [...]

AIGA: Web Design Using Photoshop CS3 & Dreamweaver CS3

I’m speaking at the AIGA meeting in Denver and it promises to be packed with so much info I think I’m going to have to hand out Aspirin after the meeting.  Here’s the gist if you’re in the area.  It’s FREE!  Do you design your Web sites in Photoshop® and then rely on a developer [...]

A Look at Cross Media for Print Professionals

I recently delivered a session at the Digital Solutions Cooperative Conference in San Diego titled “Getting Your Assets in Motion:  A Look at Cross Media for Print Professionals”. Feel free to email me any questions you might have about the outline below.  And you can download the slides here. The Power of CS3 and XML [...]

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ActionScript 3.0 Rain – Randomly creating and animating movie clips

Download Source Files Creation There are a couple different ways to create multiple movie clips in AS 3.0 but this is the way I like best. Basically create an array and attach (addChild) the Rain library item to the stage. Place it at a random position within the stage width/height: var rainArray:Array = new Array(); [...]

iPhone has the Web (circa 1997)

Yes, the iPhone has the Web – but it’s like having the web ten years ago, when there was no Flash.  So if you want to see what the Internet was like back then, then get the iPhone.  Otherwise I reccomend the Nokia N95. Yes, and the following YouTube video sums up the iPhone’s web [...]