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Safari Books Online: Is it worth it?

April 30th, 2008 by zvannote

I was fortunate enough to work for a company a couple years ago that gave each of their employees a subscription to Safari Books Online. If you’re not familiar with this company, here’s how it works: You pay a monthly fee–as low as $10 (see below)–for access to most of the technical books published by [...]


Zac’s Books & Articles

April 21st, 2008 by zvannote

I’ve mentioned to people that I’ve written books and articles that appear on other websites, but when they ask what they are and where to find them, I don’t always remember them all. So here’s a list of articles and other things I’ve done outside of Creative Fuel.
Books

Dreamweaver MX Magic (I wrote 2 chapters/projects for [...]


Top 10 Web Browsers

April 16th, 2008 by zvannote

So what are the top 10 web browsers? How do you rank them? The first criteria I used was that the top browsers still have to be in general use (at least many thousands of regular users). I ranked them based on objective and subjective criteria including security, usability, CSS and Javascript support, standards compliance, [...]


The Death of Netscape

April 15th, 2008 by zvannote

It was with a touch of sadness and nostalgia that I read earlier this year that Netscape will no longer be developed. Certainly there are some diehards still using various versions of this old-standby browser, but AOL finally announced that it will no longer be actively developed.
Of course, we’ve heard that before only to have [...]


2008 HOW Design Conference

April 1st, 2008 by zvannote

Even though it’s a couple months away, registration is open for the 2008 HOW Design Conference in Boston. I don’t know if I’ll make it this year, but I strongly recommend it for any graphic designer. Whether you’re working in print or on the web, this conference has topics of interest. I have attended several [...]