The European Web Browser Choice

Mar 3 2010

Many of you have probably already heard about the European Web Browser Choice that’s going on in, yes you guessed right, Europe right now.

The Web Browser Choice is according to the European Commission a deal between The European Commission and Microsoft. The European Commission believes that Microsoft has taken advantage of their predominant position on the European market by providing Internet Explorer as the standard browser on Windows.

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How to Prep Your Design for a Web Developer

Feb 12 2010

Hey ya’ll photoshop-/color-/typo-addicted designers out there! Have you just finished that brand new awesome web design and just shipped it off to the web agency that will convert it into a website? Are you stoked on how awesome your design will look in a browser when you press the big green go-live button? (I’ve always wanted one of those buttons) Have you built up your customer’s expectations through the roof and said something like “Huell yeah! This will be the most awesome website of the entire Universe!!!”?

Do you want to know how the web developer will grade your work and how you can improve the end-result of the entire project and cut costs? Read on.

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Why Putting a Button on Top of Another Button is a Bad Idea

Nov 7 2009

I’ve been using Coda as my main web development tool the last few months and I must say that it’s a great development tool that makes me work more efficient. It’s easy to use, you can easily search through all files in a big project and you can publish all your changes to the server with just a click or two. When I need to debug server-side code I just swap to Komodo.

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Use your own ActionScript 3.0 classes and custom events in Adobe Flash (Part 2)

Jul 17 2009

This is the last part in this short serie of two where we use real world examples to show you how you can create and use your own custom event classes to write customizable and reusable code that you can use in your ActionScript 3.0 projects from time to time.

In this second part we’ll take part one a step further and write classes to load images using the XML-file we loaded in part one.

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Use your own ActionScript 3.0 classes and custom events in Adobe Flash (Part 1)

May 2 2009

If you get the hang of using your own custom events in ActionScript 3.0 you can streamline your development and get more control of your code. This is the first part in a serie of two where we’re going to show you how you can create and use your own custom events.

In this first part we’re going to use a real-world example and use a custom event-class to load XML more smoothly. We’ll also go through how you create a document class and how you link it to your flash document.

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