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March 27, 2007 at 10:26 am · Filed under art, design, development, music, video
Adobe has finally announced the release of their updated and re-branded version of their Creative Suite line of products. Now go buy that new MacBook Pro you’ve been putting off, because the whole suite runs natively on Intel-based Macs, unlike it’s predecessors. This from Adobe’s website:
The Adobe® Creative® Suite 3 family offers you choice — in the combination of creative tools you master, the design disciplines you explore, and the richness and scope of content you create. This revolutionary new release includes six editions, each combining tightly integrated, industry-leading components that enable you to handle virtually any creative task.
Together these six editions of Creative Suite 3 address virtually every creative discipline and empower you to work more efficiently with your creative team; collaborate more closely with developers to produce engaging experiences; and serve your clients, your business, and your creative vision more easily and effectively than ever before.
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March 18, 2007 at 2:59 pm · Filed under design, development
Posted Friday at BittBox, there is a great article on how to find quality freebies by using Google’s indexing feature to search within quality sites such as Digg, TutorialBlog or Smashing Magazine, which often contain links to quality material, as opposed to spending hours sifting through tons of crappy ‘clip-art’ or other low-quality media before finding what you are REALLY looking for. A BittBox reader inspired by the article created this tool, which more or less automates the search method described in the article, though searches a total 25 social media sites, and specific blogs. The Google Social Media Search tool created by illovich allows you to search for any type of downloadable media such as vectors, PSD files, code snippets, buttons and whatever else you may be looking for. Do you have other ideas for great ways to find quality downloadable free media? Post them here!
March 12, 2007 at 4:09 pm · Filed under design, development
Think code sucks? Me too. Rather, I design. I don’t program, and I don’t code. As many of you in the design field have likely experienced however, there is always that guy that wants to hire one person to create the design AND the code. This ends up with a lot of web pages looking really good, but having shit for code, and a lot of web pages that are coded really well, yet look like a middle schooler was trying to redesign his MySpace page with the latest version of Tom’s MySpace Generator. For the designers out there who are strictly designers, but find themselves needing to code on occasion, or anyone that is looking to simplify the coding process, you need these 42 faux-column CSS layouts from Code-Sucks.com. They also offer another 53 fixed-width CSS layouts on their site as well. All of the layouts are totally free, and all are validated against a strict doctype.
