Fireworks Lives to See Another Cycle!

February 7, 2006

If you love Fireworks for web design as much as I do, you've probably been watching for the slightest clue as to the life, or death, of it since the acquisition of Macromedia. In the past week, I've seen two extremely positive signs — I'll share in case you missed them. The first came in [...]

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Random Sleep, Bad Temperature Sensors in 17" Powerbook

January 23, 2006

I have just spent the good part of two days trying to figure out why my 17″ Powerbook (1.67GHz) has narcolepsy. And an annoying couple of days it has been. I've narrowed the problem down finally, but I still have not come up with a solution. I'm blogging here in hopes that someone has either [...]

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Template Issue Resolved with Dreamweaver 8 Updater

January 17, 2006

You may have already heard that the Dreamweaver 8 updater was released yesterday. You can go to the updater page to download it. It fixes some niggly bugs, as they always do, but this one has two other benefits as well. First, if you have a trial of Dreamweaver 8, it will extend your trial [...]

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Death of an Icon – Internet Explorer Macintosh

December 28, 2005

You've probably read it by now. Internet Explorer for Macintosh is now officially dead — or will be in three days. There will be no further security or performance updates from Microsoft. I realize with the inattention it's received over the past few years, it's a welcome development for most of us. But in its [...]

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Does Buying More Time on Your Domain Affect Search Engine Ranking?

December 15, 2005

Recently, a long-time client of mine was purchasing more time for two of his four domain names. Since he didn't want to deal with it again for a while, he increased all his domains to 2008 or more. As he was waiting on the phone for the credit card to process, the person assisting him [...]

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The Fat Lady Hit Her Final Note <br />(or, we loved you macromedia, good bye…)

December 5, 2005

Most of you likely heard the news about the close of the Macromedia acquisition over the weekend. And this morning there's a new site in place of the old Macromedia site. Honestly, it gave me an odd feeling in the pit of my stomach this morning. The lists I frequent are abuzz with concerns, excitment [...]

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MAX Advanced CSS Session Files Posted — Finally

November 22, 2005

I finally got a moment to breathe since the move and I've posted my files from my MAX session on Advanced CSS. For those of you that attended my sessions, this particular PDF was created from the actual Power Point Presentation used at MAX. It is more accurate than the one you can download from [...]

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Open Source and ColdFusion

November 3, 2005

I've been slammed due to MAX (first getting ready for my sessions and then recovering from the lack of sleep and catching up on work after it). I have several things I'd like to post, but all in good time. One thing I did want to make sure to help spread the news about is [...]

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Is the Fat Lady Singing — Macromedia/Adobe Merger

October 14, 2005

MarketWatch is reporting that the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe has won US Antitrust clearance. It appears if things continue as planned, Macromedia will no longer “be”, as we know it, by the fall. The article goes on to show Adobe in “a graphics light” and Macromedia in “a web light.” Of course, this is [...]

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Upcoming Events and Appearances

October 12, 2005

There are several upcoming events in the next week that those of you in the Los Angeles area should be aware of. On Saturday, October 15th is a day of events at the LA Flash Factory (Venice, CA) which includes: MiniMAX3 – 4p-6p, put on by the New Orleans User GroupSpeakers include: Adam Bell, R [...]

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