Tag: adobe
Dreamweaver CS3 crashes and won’t start up again
Hey kids, this is definitely one of the weirdest bugs I have ever clapped eyes on.
Not for the first time, I was happily authoring CSS and Dreamweaver CS3 crashed. Turns out, it doesn’t have to be specifically CSS, but that was my situation anyway.
The crash
It’s all too familiar: this is DW after all, and those …
Flash is 10
Flash is ten years old, as the BBC reports, and for any Internet technology still around after a decade that’s a considerable achievement.
When I started out in web design, it was almost the only medium I worked in, reflecting the tastes of the time. That was before the Flash backlash, led by the arch-headline-grabber himself …
Microsoft takes on Adobe / Macromedia
I stumbled across Microsoft Expression this afternoon, quite by chance, really. Expression is a three-product graphics suite for designers. It borrows enormously from Macromedia Studio and a bit of Adobe Photoshop.
It seems to me to be quite a bald response to Macromedia’s buyout, but as usual Microsoft has an angle.
That angle is XAML, the UI …
Macromedia.com metamorphosis
Change is finally happening over at macromedia.com, with the Adobe visual identity steadily (if clumsily) getting to grips with the Macromedia site structure.
It remains to be seen whether Macromedia’s traditionally rather tasty approach to layouts will carry over into the somewhat more monolithic Black, Red and White id at Adobe.
Macromedia’s design aesthetic was different, occasionally …
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Gangs Of New York
Director: Martin Scorsese United States, 2002 Gangs Of New York follows the fortunes of Amsterdam Vallon, orphaned as a young boy by the mercurial leader of a rival gang in 19th century lower Manhattan. The …
- Originally published: 22 Jan 2007 in Film
The Queen
Director: Stephen Frears United Kingdom, 2006 If before seeing The Queen you caught the two-part television drama Elizabeth I, then you probably admired Helen Mirren’s preface to her glorious turn as our current monarch. The …
- Originally published: 27 Feb 2007 in Film
Baltasar and Blimunda
José Saramago Harvill Press (2001 edition) This was José Saramago’s breakthrough novel in the English language. His narrating personality is less obvious here but, even as he describes the events of three centuries ago, …
- Originally published: 17 Jan 2010 in Books
Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado)
Director: Walter Salles Brazil, 2001 Sandwiched between the superb Central Station and the even better Motorcycle Diaries, Salles’ period adaptation of an Albanian novel makes memorable cinema out of the simplest of storylines. Walter Carvalho’s …
- Originally published: 28 Mar 2007 in Film
At home with Papa: from Key West to Key Largo
Great War ambulance driver, the Lost Generation’s leading light, hunter in the Serengeti, radicalist sympathiser in the Spanish Civil War, Q-Boat captain Cuba, D-Day correspondent, Nobel Prize winner, friend then enemy of …
- Originally published: 16 Jan 2008 in North America
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Hello you. I'm Mike Padgett and I work in the technology sector as an Information Designer.
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I'm based in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is St Feuillien Brune.