Archive for October, 2009

Adobe Dreamweaver – Easy Mistakes to Make Part 1 – Failing to Define a Site

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

The Dreamweaver engineers have a tough row to hoe – caught between the needs of novice users and hardcore code veterans the program often fails to gently guide users through the process of putting a web site together.

Adobe Dreamweaver – Easy Mistakes To Make… Part 1… is a Graphics Training Source mini-series that draws on Andrew’s Vast Reservoir o’ Training Experience to help you – yes you, avoid the Most Calamitous Dreamweaver Mistakes…

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Safari’s Web Developer Menu

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Hidden away in Apple’s Safari browser is a preference setting that challenges Firefox’s excellent Web Developer Toolkit, and while not as fully featured as the Firefox plug-in, will help designers to test and preview their CSS and HTML edits directly in Safari. (more…)

IE 6 Cheatsheet Combats A Ton 0′ Bugs

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Internet Explorer 6 is always sitting there, just waiting to undo your best laid plans…

A Selfless Superstar called Benjamin has posted this brain frazzling list of IE6 related bugs ‘n’ fixes. Check it out at Virtuosi Media. You’ll read it and weep.

Web Colour pt 1 – The ‘Web Safe’ Colours

Monday, October 19th, 2009

What are these self-styled ‘Web Safe’ colours. Do you need them? Should you care?

10 million years ago when the DTPosaurs worked on huge, slow computers with tiny, tiny little screens, there wasn’t a lot of anything to go round, not enough RAM, not disk space, not enough colours.

That’s why when the web came along it was important for designers to recognise that not everyone’s monitor could display the same colours. At that time the fanciest graphics cards where maybe putting out 16bit colours (that’s 65536 different colours) but your average punter would of probably owned a 8bit card (that’s only 256 colours folks!)

To make things more confusing both the Mac’s system palette and Window’s system palette were different from each other… (more…)

Hello World!

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Welcome to the Graphics Training Source, a propaganda/marketing wing of Andrew Moreton, Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor whose wisdom and ego are shortly about to fill these pages with tips, links, and tutorials relating to electronic publishing and graphic design in general and CSS, HTML, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Dreamweaver in particular.

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