Why Use Adobe Fireworks
Resources from SmashingMagazine.com; might be helpful! Quite a few different tutorials and some resources/articles about layouts and icons.
Archive:Tips
Unconventional Tactics Lift Sales
Online Game & Giveaway for Scientists Beat Revenue Goals 278%
SUMMARY: Can B-to-B marketers effectively use consumer marketing tactics? The answer is yes! With the right product line and the right campaign, you can deliver strong results.
A technologies marketer supplemented its standard data-rich marketing with an online game. By designing the game to promote specific products and mining customer purchase behavior to deliver a targeted reward, the team saw a 13.79% conversion rate and beat its revenue goals by 278%.
http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=30583
LMC Tween Set – a great tween resource
To read and download the LMC_Tween.as go here
Go Here:
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Flash – Math.Random Fuction explained
This explanation is from Ben Harris – Thanks Buddy!
I have a better time explaining things in writing.. So here’s a better explanation of the Math.Random() function
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The theme of today is Links!
So I thought I would share some links that I use regularly and I will try to break them out into understand able categories.
Organizational Links Tips and Tricks
www.Lifehacker.com – this is my favorite – it is from the people who are from the gawker franchise but this site is useful. They offer everything from software hacks to stress reducing techniques.
Anyone who is an information worker from writer to designer can use these tips.
www.zenhabits.net
http://www.43folders.com/
www.ffffound.com
www.changethethought.com
www.blog.iso50.com
Free Downloads
www.bittbox.com
www.gomediazine.com
www.vecteezy.com
Design Tutorials
http://pshero.com
Textures
http://stocktextures.com
Business Philosophy
Finding Logo’s
www.brandsoftheworld.com
www.dafont.com
www.ilovetypography.com
www.fontstruct.fontshop.com
you can build your own font online with the last service and down load alot of open source fonts as well
Open Source Browsers
Just grab all of their plugin’s – I recommend – Web Developer – you can see all of the CSS that is on a page
Firemarks – this allows you the sync you bookmarks over many computers.
Feel free to comment and leave your great websites! I intend to update this post regulary
Put the point-of-purchase on every PC
Tailgate is a new company that, among other things, has developed a pretty nifty “Buy Now” feature for banner ad campaigns, which doesn’t necessitate clicking through to the site. (They claim they’re the first to do this within an online ad.)
http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/18187.asp
From imedia Connections
Optimizing Flash Banners
One of the harder things we do as designers working in the medium of Banner Ads, is make them compelling while still fitting the file size requirements. They tend to have file size limitations as small as 25k to 30k.
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Quailty Assurance – Advice
I have been trying to come up with a system to deal with Q&A side of the job of being a desginer.
The strategy came up with a check list that breaks down creative into five sections.
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For the Love of Color!
COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.
