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Category Archives: Tools
QA work with Notable
QA’ing website builds is not an easy task. There are countless issues to check and comments to wrangle. From copywriting, to <TITLE> tags, to image exports, to functionality. Depending on the site, there is a lot that can — and will — go wrong during testing.
It’s a fact of life that there will be several [...]
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Thoughts on HTML email
photo credit: grunge
I’ve worked with some designers recently to create some pretty fun HTML emails. I was thinking about the first email campaign that I developed a few years ago, and I’m amazed at how much I’ve learned in terms of best-practices.
Here are some of my favorite resources / thoughts when working with HTML [...]
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What is Social Influence Marketing?
photo credit: h de c
Razorfish unleashed its 180-page digital outlok yesterday. The valuable, compelling information starts on page one.
In the Trends to Watch section, they write, “Social Influence MarketingTM will go mainstream in 2009.” I don’t fully have my head around Social Influence Marketing — but it is trademarked, so maybe someone from Razorfish [...]
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AgencyScoop.com — another social network or something exciting?
photo credit: erin m
Earlier this week, a friend of mine sent me an invite to AgencyScoop — the professional network for the ad industry. I signed up pretty quickly; I immediately thought there might be an opportunity to introduce some more agency folks to Bannerflow.
Then I didn’t see a nice, easy way to mention [...]
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Tools for interactive producers
photo credit: tysoncrosbie
Can you imagine what your life would be like without your smartphone or iPod? To me, there are a a few low-cost tools that are every bit as important to interactive producers.
SnagIt – taking screen grabs used to be a burden in my daily life. SnagIt is simply the best screen grab [...]
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Fireworks template for wireframing
I’ve made a few posts lately about wireframing with Fireworks, so here’s a PNG template wireframe for Fireworks.
The Master Page has been set up, so you can edit the Main Navigation, Functional Nav, Footer Nav, Logo, etc. layers, and then all of your additional Pages will contain these visuals.
Other than that, everything should be pretty [...]
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CS4 is coming…
photo credit: Bull3t
It’s been 546 days (17 months) since Adobe released Creative Suite 3, and now we’ve got to get ready for Creative Suite 4.
I’m torn on this one.
Positives:
Since their purchase of Macromedia, each release of the Creative Suite has continually become more integrated (especially in the web arena, which is particularly impotant to [...]
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Using Fireworks for wireframing
There a lot of different ways to produce wireframes for online projects. Most often, I resort to PowerPoint because it is the most universally used application within the office. I’ve also used Photoshop, InDesign, Axure and Word to produce wireframes.
But I’ve recently begun to explore Fireworks capabilities more and more. Fireworks is a great design [...]
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