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On most Web sites there is a barrier between the people who want to update and publish content to the site and the Web site itself. Content eventually becomes out of date, improvements remain undone, and new information languishes unpublished - waiting for precious design time or devel...
'Yo, guru!' I looked up to see the guy a couple cubicles over prairie-dogging, trying to get my attention. I think they call me 'guru' because I'm too old to be called 'dude,' not from the feeling of awe I think I am due. 'What's the ASCII code for the German u-umlaut?' I was tempted t...
Most of my work is invisible. At least, it isn't seen by very many people. Much of it is business-to-business sales tools for high-end server components. Lately, a good portion of it has been in languages where the target audience is even smaller than the English-speaking market. The m...
Yes it's true - at some point, it was a challenge for me to swap an image on the stage. Hey, we all start somewhere. About a million challenges later, and voilà - a decent Director developer!
Windows, Macintosh, and Unix have three different ways of referring to a line break. Windows uses two separate characters - Carriage Return followed by Line Feed - while Macintosh uses just Carriage Return and Unix uses just Line Feed. To complicate matters, the fonts generally availab...
In the last issue of MXDJ (Vol. 2, issue 7), we discussed the Extrusion tool. This time we'll explore other drawing methods. Some modeling effects can be handled quickly in FreeHand with the Extrude tool, but gradient fills and creative blends from one shape to anothere are sometimes t...
With Flash's ability to create rich, engaging, and fully interactive front end interface environments and Web services being able to offer data in a standardized, easy-to-work-with format, the possibilities of what can be accomplished with these two technologies is endless. But before ...
The world of Flash development can be a dangerous place. Although Flash offers the most comprehensive set of tools for Web site user interface development, there are numerous pitfalls that can cause a project to go sour. Flash's complexity can result in 'two-day' projects taking two we...
In today's wild, wild Web, the catchphrases are usability, accessibility, standards-compliance, and valid code. Why is valid code so important? The sheer number of browsers out there that display the same code differently make it virtually impossible to have different versions of code ...
140 Decibels is a short film about a depressed man whose anxiety escalates as he becomes increasingly more sensitive towards his environment, particularly noise. His midtown Manhattan apartment is both sanctuary and prison. Louis F.Cuffari, art director of 140 Decibels, created animate...