A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.

Deliverables:
Make sure your project folder is tidy and free of “crap”. I usually start off with a project folder containing a few sub folders.

- Docs ( Contains any Documents pertaining to the project, PDF, Doc, Links, or Text files )
- Html ( Contains the working code for the site, remember to make backups and date them )
- Source ( Contains Fonts, Stock Photos, Basically any original unmodified file )
- Design ( Contains the Photoshop and Illustrator Files )

When delivering a project i usually submit in the form of a ZIP, i prefer RAR but more people have some sort of ZIP program and usually doesn’t result in any one complying.

Find out from the client what they want. Some times the project is to large to be emailed and they might require that you upload it to a server, make to follow there specifications, don’t upload it to a public folder, and don’t post it on a non-secure website as a link.

If worst comes to works you can always sent them a CD, DVD or in person on a Memory Stick.
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The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts. The thumbnail for this article is generated by Google’s Chart API. The API is simple, the image is generated from url parameters. The following Code chunk breaks down the images into its basic components.

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This came across my inbox today and i thought it was interesting and that i would share it with the world.

Its an animation, as the music goes on text will fill in the image.

Bob Dylan
John Lennon

Its been a long time since i create a new desktop, this was more or less made while playing with pressure on a Wacom tablet. i covered every resolution from 800-1920 with a dash of wide screens in there as well.

Well as you can probably see i have finally got the new Wordpress Theme going. Not to mention with the latest revision of WPG2 i have got the real Gallery back up. I have added lots of photos, so take a look add you comments i appreciate your feed back.

I will also explain the process i used to test the template on my live site without interrupting the actual live template.

I think it was genius, i usually used a private install of Wordpress for my template development but then it came to testing to see if i have all the custom styles covered it was becoming a pain. i then remembered how the Theme switcher plug in worked and installed it on my main site. I simply copied the URL to my theme in development “http://www.studiolounge.net/index.php?wptheme=Studio+Lounge+City” thus giving me a live view of my sites content and leaving the public theme alone.

Hope you guys like the new site.

I was reading this article on how web 2.0 is “The Killer of Design” and the confusion that surrounds it. No one really knows what it is. If you search for it in Google you will get a few pages containing links to supposed Web 2.0 sites, but none of them seam to meet what i thought was Web 2.0 (colourfull, larger text, user friends, standards based).

With the increase of all these “user friendly” sites that offer easy creation of content were people can pick and chooses what they wish. creating works of “art” that can be something to be desired.

Bellow is an excerpt from the article.

We now have myriads of users actively publishing content on the internet; but when it’s so easy to do it and all the barriers have been removed, what will the user do with this absolute freedom, especially considering his general lack of whatever publishing skills were necessary before? Too much freedom can be dangerous and the user will eventually abuse it. Just take a look at MySpace or other similar sites to see what I’m talking about. The designer’s nightmare is upon us – users are given the power to choose layout, colors, fonts, and all the flashy gimmicks they want.

Maybe some day the whole web 2.0 thing will be explained and every one will be at peace until web 3.0 comes out and everything gets murky.

Wikipedia: web 2.0
badboy.ro: The Killer of Design

I was itching to see when Dreamweaver CS3 was coming out and came accross the actuall website. not i cant see a release date i do however see the option to pre-order. I must say that it is looking good! lots of cool features many of the ideas discussed in my Previous post here were covered.

The integraded Spry framework for Ajax also seams interesting, i would love to learn about it and how it can make simple aplications more interactice and intuitive.

Let us bow our heads in silence for our departed friend Adobe GoLive. you were always an option never really considered. your moving on could not have happened at a better time.

I can only home using Dreamweaver will be as exiting as its cracked up to be.

Key Features:

• Spry framework for Ajax
• Spry data
• Spry widgets
• Spry effects
• Browser Compatibility Check
• CSS Advisor website
• CSS layouts
• CSS management

Info on Spry

Also check out Adobe Creativelicense

Here is really useful Firefox Extension. The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a tool bar to the browser with various web developer tools. You can check out page design turn off the front end of a page and see the raw bits in action. Very useful for learning new ways to go about designing a web page.

Check it out.

It should only be a mater of time before Adobe announces Dreamweaver 9. But i got to thining what sort of changes can we look forrward to? As far as i can tell there really isn’t any talk or mention of a new version of dream weaver coming out any time soon bit lets not forget Dreamweaver 8 came out in 2005! and the net waits for no one! so something must be done.

I came up with a few that i thought would help:

Offer some sort of scaffolding for mysql!

Maybe offer a delete feature in the file manager! you can hit the delete key and it will work but no right click?

CSS tidy! and even be able to search for a css tag in the viewer! i have a css file with 1131 lines of code! i have to comment the crap out of it to find stuff! i want to type and have it come up.

Do like the open source guys do and have downloadable IDE so people cam plop in a RUBY language or anything else thats not supported.

Thats all i can think of now

So i got to thinking what else are people looking for and i found a lot of really cool ideas. Some I’m sure are going to become features. I found mention of integrated AJAX support with probably there own libraries. As well as blogging templates for Movable Type and WordPress.

Thats about it! let me know what you think should be in the next version of Dreamweaver.

Well i dusted off my portfolio and uploaded it to www.adam-patterson.com, it was siting dormant for a wile. It has been redesigned. i was tired of the old site and just removed it. The new one is all fancy using Flash and SlideShow Pro for image delivery.

Let me know what you think.

Mini icons seam to be a staple on the net now finding there way all over link lists, wordpress thmes and jsutabout anything you can design now has some icons on it.. And who can you blame? They add spice to your site. I recently sprinkled some on my site to liven it up and add visual keys.

And using some elite CSS like this:

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