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Fireworks CS3 Features: Intelligent Scaling
Republished from SitePoint Design View #33
Adobe’s first take on Fireworks — CS3, or version 9 in the old money — has finally been released into the wild and is getting some good press. As we only received the full review edition last week, I’ll publish a full wrap-up in the next Design View, but for the time being I thought I’d look at one of the package’s nicest new features: intelligent or “9-slice” scaling.
Symbols — in Flash or Fireworks — have always been a great concept. If you use a bit of CSS, there’s something quite familiar about being able to define a permanent reference graphic, then use linked instances or copies of that graphic in your artwork. Changes to the symbol automatically flow through to copies, just as CSS changes flow through to your document.
The biggest drawback I’ve always found with using symbols has always been scaling issues.
While it doesn’t really matter if your radio button doesn’t resize elegantly, the majority of buttons, text fields, dropdowns, scroll bars, tabs, and other screen widgets we might use in a typical design are required to resize to fit the content they contain. …
News Wire: We’re Back!
With Simply JavaScript, the book I co-wrote with Cameron Adams, officially off to print, I’m now able to resume publication of the SitePoint News Wire. Thanks to those who continued to submit links during the downtime. Enjoy!
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Pimpin’ Products Ain’t Easy
Amy Hoy demonstrates how to put your product’s best foot forward on the Web, and points out some common mis-steps you should aim to avoid. (thanks gnarly)
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The No Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications
Dan Webb: “With this post I’m going to blast through the absolute essentials you need to get started…” (thanks gnarly)
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Instruct Search Engines to come back to site after you finish working on it
Shows how to send a 503 (Network Unavailable) error to search engines while you are making modifications to your site. (thanks apachedude)
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Objecty
A JavaScript library that makes it dead simple to embed video in your web pages. I’m not sure I like the custom attribute it requires, but its better than most alternatives. “It’s meant to re-swizzle …
Google Shuts Down Arbitrage and MFA Publishers
I talked about Making Money With Arbitrage in my last post and I touched on the fact that some people may see it as “shady”. Like it or not, arbitrage has a negative stigma. Based on the comments on my last post we have people on both sides of it. But it looks like the most important opinion is out in the open: Google’s opinion.
Unless you’ve been in a cave the last day or so, you’ve probably noticed the amount of talk on Google’s decision to disable publisher accounts of those who are engaged in arbitrage and MFA (made for Adsense). They seem to be going after the bigger fish in this market and accounts have already been shut down and given notice that by June 1st their accounts till be terminated. Though they are going to pay these publishers as per their agreement this sends a loud and clear message: Adsense Arbitrage and MFA sites are not ok according to Google. So if it wasn’t clear before, it is now.
If other PPC providers don’t follow suit it could mean more money for them as these sites shift to using those providers. On the Google Asense side it …
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