TLD (Talk Like Designers) the long awaited app has passed the apple detectives and is now available in the itunes store for a lazy 99 cents. Yes!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Blog readers. I have spent 6 months researching how Adobe Flash can create technically acceptable apps for the Apple Itunes and Android Market. The app called TLD (Talk like a Designer) was fully created in Flash and then managed through the Apple Development Program. Now that sounds a bit classy, but what it really means is that Flash is back and is a Great design/coding environment for the mobile market. Another great canvas for our Designs and Concepts. Check it out by typing TLD into the search engine in the Itunes app store. Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heres a screenshot of the email Apple sends you as a developer to tell you the good news.

Smarten up your layouts using grids. Here is the ultimate grid resource for both print and the web. Totally useful.

Grids give our graphic design structure and order. Grids are a great way to layout pages and provide a starting point for that corporate masterpiece. Here's a great link.
THE GRID SYSTEM

Embed Video into your HTML page

YouTube is an amazing facility for storing and viewing videos. Here is a technique you can use to place a video on your website and have YouTube do all the work streaming the video. The big plus is you do not have to store your video on your own site, thus saving space on your server.
EMBED VIDEO IN YOUR WEB SITE

the 960 grid system_a Starter CSS framework_worth a look

Starting a web site from scratch can mean a lot of repetitive tasks. These good people have set up a time saving structure to create magazine style grid layouts. Looks a bit tricky at first but is a good learning curve for the budding web warrior.
960 GRID SYSTEM

Lighten Up. Here's some interesting Graphic Design silliness.

Graphic Designers sometimes take themselves a bit too seriously. Here's a few attempts at humour surrounding our whacky profession. Enjoy!
DIFFICULT CLIENT
CHEAP CLIENT
S*IT THAT GRAPHIC DESIGNERS SAY

The Mobile WEB (what the?)

The world is mobile. Smart Phones and Tablets have bludgeoned their way into our lives. Web sites must work on as many platforms as possible. The good news is that traditional web skills in HTML and CSS dominate this arena. YES! Here's a bit of light reading on the subject.
THE MOBILE WEB CONCEPT EXPLAINED

Great Adobe Overview of the whole web design process

Our overlords at Adobe have created a series of videos that explain the whole web design process. Great viewing for that lonely Saturday night or after a long shift waiting on tables. They speak of HTML 5 but many concepts are relevant to our HTML 4 adventures.
Adobe TV dreamweaver web site overview

SOme Basic web concepts explained

G'day students. The Web can be a mysterious place, full of weird sounding Concepts. What's a blog? Whats an RSS feed. I have gathered together a collection of YouTube links that explain some of the major concepts involved in our current studies.
Blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI
RSS Feed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU&feature=channel
Social Networking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc&feature=channel
Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o&feature=channel
Wiki
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY&feature=channel
Social Media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE&feature=related
World Wide Web
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZoMbBzqxyc&feature=channel
History of the Internet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hIQjrMHTv4&feature=related
History of YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2NQiVcdZRY&feature=related
HTML Email
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad4tywpYkPA&feature=related