Quote from Migz :

Dont bother with flash on websites, its reallyy pointless.
Just deisgn your site in photoshop, and export it to a website editor. Frontpage works great. As long as you have got the skills you can make awesome websites using just photoshop and frontpage.

It's people like you that mean I get more work redesigning sites. Thank you

http://industry.becta.org.uk/d ... velopers/usability_v2.doc

Die Flash, Die!

Quote from pb32000 :

It's people like you that mean I get more work redesigning sites. Thank you

Made my day.

And if I interpret your signature right, I have to thank you for handicapping your business with inferior weapons of choice and giving me more profits to collect.

Quote from pb32000 :

It's people like you that mean I get more work redesigning sites. Thank you

Haha, tis alrighty :P
Acctually whaa? :| Is that a good or a bad thing ? XD

Quote from spankmeyer :

Made my day.

And if I interpret your signature right, I have to thank you for handicapping your business with inferior weapons of choice and giving me more profits to collect.

Haha you read correctly.

Side-stepping a bit from the flash-hate-gatorade...

*Climbs on soap box*

What I really hate, and btw this drives on me the verge of an instant RAAAAAGE the moment I have to deal with it - which is almost daily, are corporate web sites built on non-functional, slooooooow PHP content managing services that insult my intelligence by offering me frequently asked questions of products I'm not interested and have nothing to do with the problematic product that's model number I just 5 seconds ago wrote on your support search.

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in terms of graphic programs, I'll definitely have to buy either PS CS4 or PSP X as that would be my main area for design. I'm aware that there are some flash websites which are hard to navigate but my intention isn't going to go for anything super complex and unusable. I'm mostly interested in just small animations here and there for some buttons and transitions between menus but it will all be easily accessible. Something like Bruno Senna's website. Its designed in Flash but with simple, accessible menus but has some of that fanciness of Flash.

My plan is to design a site to assist me in attracting sponsors as I'm intent on approaching some companies in the near time future so I firstly wanted to create the website so that if they wanted to find out any more specific details that perhaps that I may have not mentioned to them during my presentation, then they can find it on my site and secondly, some flashy stuff to impress them which in turn, may make them feel more confident in the knowledge that I am serious about it.

I'll have a look at Silverlight to see its capabilities in comparison to that of Flash.

Well, as idiotic as most of you may think, I've kind of made a commitment not to get pirate software. Although PS CS4 will be pricy, its something which will last with me for a considerable amount of time so its basically like a one-off purchase. Obviously, there will be new versions, CS5, CS6 and so forth and so on but until they make some sort of great new features to assist me with design, then I'll probably pass on them.

Bruno's site is okay, but each 'tab' still takes a while to load despite only have simple content. It's not an epic fail, but it's not appealing to me. I gave up after 3 tabs.

Quote from Leprekaun :

Well, as idiotic as most of you may think, I've kind of made a commitment not to get pirate software. Although PS CS4 will be pricy...

Creative Suites are far from pricey. What's actually bad is that every revision brings you more and more bloatware, useless/unfinished/amateur-oriented features instead of actually refining the software.

And buying a valid CS license in the beginning will save you from the world of hurt of getting caught doing commercial work with unlicensed sofware.

Quote from Leprekaun :

Well, as idiotic as most of you may think, I've kind of made a commitment not to get pirate software. Although PS CS4 will be pricy, its something which will last with me for a considerable amount of time so its basically like a one-off purchase. Obviously, there will be new versions, CS5, CS6 and so forth and so on but until they make some sort of great new features to assist me with design, then I'll probably pass on them.

For some reason my post was deleted, but I respect yoru decision nevertheless