Web Design; Flash blocked in I.E.

I'm new to webdesign and I'm trying to use flash animation on
my site. The problem is everytime I load the site the flash is
blocked by internet explorer saying it's blocking activex. This
doesn't happen when I load other sites with flash animation, how do
I set mine up so users who go to the site don't get blocked? Please
help!

I tried this method actually. Maybe I'm doing it wrong but
I'm still having the same problem. The code they have on the site,
<script type="text/javascript"
src="swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent">
This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100",
"7", "#336699");
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>
Is this all I need to add? And if so, where do I want to put
the code, I was putting this part before the flash file
<script type="text/javascript"
src="swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent">
And then the rest of the code after the flash file. If you
could tell me it would be much appreciated. Sorry I'm kind of slow
when it comes to code. I've been doing everything visually through
dreamweaver,
Thanks.

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I am working with a web design company in the UK and was wondering if there are any indications of when Flash could be recognised by Google?
This is a major issue as the design features are fantastic but SEO is a nightmare.
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In SEO terms, content is king. Basically, if you have no HTML headings and text on your web pages, there's nothing much for search engines to grab onto. No content = no traffic.
Flash is invisible to SEs, translators, screen readers, iPhones/iPads, and many other web devices. To support the widest possible audience, you might want to re-think your need for Flash and switch to HTML. Almost anything you can do with Flash can be done reasonably well with jQuery (JavaScript) http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/
Your other option is SWF Object Replacement along with HTML equivalents for SEs and devices that don't support Flash.
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
Google's SEO Starter Guide (PDF)
http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.p df.
Good luck with your project,
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Hi,
I am a (software not web) programmer, not too experienced with flash.
However I am planning to do some web design with a friend who is a flash artist. I have worked with him before and found that he embedded way too much in flash, and it made it difficult for me to display a lot of the dynamic elements. This was probably 90% my own inexperience.
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When you create a Flash swf file by publishing the source fla, you have the option to have it also publishan html file. The embedding code in that html file can be copied and pasted into any web page, so that you can paste Flash content in just like you would an image or a section of text. The embedding code just tends to take up alot of room. But still, you can embed as many swf files as you like in the same html page.
I am uncertain what you mean by loading content from a database. Normally, text content might be loaded from a DB, though XML is often better because it relaxes the need to for the maintenance crew to have to learn how to edit a database, or to create some interface that makes the easy for them. Images or Flash content would normally be placed on the server in some folder rather than be stored in DB (which I have been told is possible).
I don't personally know of any tutorials that deal with specific approaches to designing a web site involving Flash, though anytime I need to find something I find Google to be a very helpful resource. I just don't know what you're really after that I could suggest some good search terms.

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IF they (or you) publish an html file using the fla (via the Publish Settings options), they can utilize the code from that file to plant the swf in the web page. There may also be a need to include a js file, which Flash will also generate when you publish the html.

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Asynchronous (1) General use. Not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase. (2) Digital communication. Pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are instead derived from special characters in the data stream.
Bitmap image Image that uses geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes, which are all based on mathematical equations. In a bitmap image, each pixel on a display screen is assigned at least one bit to indicate whether the pixel should reflect the background color, the foreground color, or some other color. each pixel in the bitmap might have 16, 24, or 48 bits of information associated with it. The more bits, the greater the resolution of the bitmap – and the larger the file. Compare Vector image.
C (programming language) General-purpose computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. It was designed for implementing system software and is also widely used for developing portable application software. C has greatly influenced many other popular programming languages, most notably C++, which began as an extension to C.
C++ Statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language and originally named C with Classes. It was renamed C++ in 1983.
Cache Component that transparently stores data so that future requests for that data can be served faster. The data that is stored within a cache might be values that have been computed earlier or duplicates of original values that are stored elsewhere. If requested data is contained in the cache (cache hit), this request can be served by simply reading the cache, which is comparatively faster. Otherwise (cache miss), the data has to be recomputed or fetched from its original storage location, which is comparatively slower.
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) Style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
ColdFusion Programming language based on standard HTML that is used to write dynamic webpages. It allows for the creation of pages that differ depending on user input, database lookups, time of day, or other criteria. ColdFusion pages consist of standard HTML tags together with CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) tags such as <CFQUERY>, <CFIF> and <CFLOOP>. ColdFusion was introduced by Allaire in 1996, acquired by Macromedia in a merger in April 2001, and acquired by Adobe in December 2005.
Compound selector Can be used to combine two or more style rules to create a style definition that displays only when one style is contained within another. Compound styles are useful when you want to do something like use the Heading 1 tag multiple times to format headlines in different ways on the same web page. For example, you could create one style for headlines that appear in the main story area of a page and then create another style for headlines that appear in the sidebar on the page and still use the Heading 1 tag to format both. Compound styles are created by combining ID, class, or tag styles and look like this: #sidebar h1.
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CRE Loaded Open source online store management and shopping cart system for e-commerce from Chain Reaction eCommerce. It is based on osCommerce, runs on any LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web server, and is supported by an active international community of users and developers. For a monthly subscription ($10/mo. as of 2011), CRE Loaded allows small and medium-sized merchants to accept credit card payments in a web site that mirrors their own online stores.
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Dynamic HTML (DHTML) Umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language (such as HTML), a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), a presentation definition language (such as CSS), and the Document Object Model. DHTML allows scripting languages to change variables in a web page's definition language, which in turn affects the look and function of otherwise “static” HTML page content, after the page has been fully loaded and during the viewing process.
ECMA International International membership-based non-profit standards organization for information and communication systems.
ECMAScript Scripting language standardized by Ecma International in the ECMA-262 specification and ISO/IEC 16262. The language is widely used for client-side scripting on the web, in the form of several well-known dialects such as JavaScript, JScript, and ActionScript.
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) Family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely used HTML, the language in which web pages are written. While HTML (prior to HTML5) was defined as an application of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a very flexible markup language framework, XHTML is an application of XML, a more restrictive subset of SGML. Because XHTML documents need to be well-formed, they can be parsed using standard XML parsers—unlike HTML, which requires a lenient HTML-specific parser.
Extensible Markup Language Set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards. Its design goals emphasize simplicity, generality, and usability over the Internet. It is a textual data format with strong support via Unicode for the languages of the world. Known by its acronym XML.
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Java Programming language released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. Java applications are typically compiled to bytecode (class file) that can run on any Java Virtual Machine (JVM) regardless of computer architecture. Java is a general-purpose, concurrent, class-based, object-oriented language that is specifically designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is intended to let application developers "write once, run anywhere". Java is currently one of the most popular programming languages in use, and is widely used from application software to web applications.[
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Linux Family of Unix-like computer operating systems using the Linux kernel (central OS component). Linux can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from mobile phones, tablet computers and video game consoles, to mainframes and supercomputers. The development of Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone under licenses such as the GNU General Public License.
Lossy compression Data encoding method which discards (loses) some of the data, in order to achieve its goal, with the result that decompressing the data yields content that is different from the original, though similar enough to be useful in some way. Lossy compression is most commonly used to compress multimedia data (audio, video, still images), especially in applications such as streaming media and internet telephony. By contrast, lossless compression is required for text and data files, such as bank records, text articles, etc.
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Rasterization The process of converting a Vector image into a Bitmap image.
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Shopping cart software Software used in e-commerce to assist people making purchases online. The software allows online shopping customers to accumulate a list of items for purchase. Upon checkout, the software typically calculates a total for the order, including shipping and handling (i.e. postage and packing) charges and the associated taxes.
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Supercomputer Computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers are typically one-of-a-kind custom designs produced by companies such as Cray, IBM and Hewlett-Packard, who had purchased many of the 1980s companies to gain their experience. Since October 2010, the Tianhe-1A supercomputer, located in China, has been the fastest in the world.
Tag Non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system. HTML tags include paragraph, heading 1, heading 2, etc.
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Vector image Image made up of numerous individual, scalable objects. These objects are defined by mathematical equations rather than pixels, so they always render at the highest quality. Objects may consist of lines, curves, and shapes with editable attributes such as color, fill, and outline. Changing the attributes of a vector object does not effect the object itself. Compare Bitmap image.
Vector processor Central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set containing instructions that operate on one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors. This is in contrast to a scalar processor, whose instructions operate on single data items. Also known as array processor.
Web analytics Measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data, including the number of visitors and page views, for understanding and optimizing web usage. It can be used as a tool for measuring website traffic and for business and market research. Web analytics applications can also help companies measure the results of traditional print advertising campaigns. It helps one to estimate how the traffic to the website changed after the launch of a new advertising campaign.
Web design Design of the way that content is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, using a web browser or other web-enabled software.
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World Wide Web Consortium Main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. It is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. Known by its acronym W3C.
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Thanks for posting this!
I would only mention that your definition is incomplete for this -
Contextual selector A type of Style Sheet Selector that
and that it's most often referred to now as a Descendent selector, not a contextual selector. It's basically the same as the Compound selector that you have already defined....

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I have been through steps 1-3 of this page: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/errors-exit-code-6-exit.html but it hasn't helped (the error log is slightly different, but that's about it).
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DF012 Installation source path does not exist: <path>
The installation files are corrupted.
Reextract or copy the contents of the installer.
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Exit Code: 6
-------------------------------------- Summary --------------------------------------
- 0 fatal error(s), 4 error(s), 8 warning(s)
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Also, this is a student edition, but as I've verified myself with Adobe and received my licence key, that shouldn't cause problems as far as I can tell.
My computer is running Windows 7 64-bit. Not sure if there's any other information that is useful in solving this issue.
Thanks for your help!

_Forge_ there a couple different technical documents relevant to the errors you are currently experiencing. I would recommend reviewing Error "1721 [or 1722]: There is a problem with this...package" when installing | CS4 | Windows - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-1721-or-1722-problem.html and Error 1603 | Install | CS5 products - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-1603-install-cs5-products.html.

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Hi
When you click on New -> web intelligence document -> It should display list of all the available universes -> Select any one among them.
You can choose efashion universe which is a sample universe that comes with BusinessObjects Enterprise installation.
If you are not getting anything in the list of universes, then probably the samples were not installed properly.
You can check if you have any sample universe on the machine or not. Open the drive where you have installed and you get the installed list of sample universes in the below path:
BusinessObjects\Program Files\BusinessObjects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 11\Samples\en\Universes
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Hello,
I will be running the Flash Design for Mobile Devices
workshops this Spring:
in San Francisco: 2 days, Saturday, May 10th & 17th, 10am
— 5pm
All mobile Flash development will be covered while emphasis
will be placed on Flash Lite
development for phones.
Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be
interested.
Details are below.
Thanks,
Nader Nejat // CEO
Omega Mobile //
http://www.omegamobile.com
Accelerating profit through stunning mobile experiences
+1 415-596-6342 (+1 415-59-OMEGA)
===========================================================
What:
Flash Design For Mobile Devices
When:
San Francisco: 2 days, Saturday, May 10th & 17th, 10am
— 5pm
Flash Design For Mobile Devices
In the era of rich mobile media development, your mobile
future is here. Now, learn how to create it in this hands-on
workshop.
We'll give you all the information and practice you need to
be on the
cutting edge of creating Flash content for PDAs, mobile
phones and next
generation devices. We'll explore the mobile Flash landscape
by looking
at working prototypes and actual applications that leverage
the current
mobile Flash player technology.
Discussions are followed by exercises that show you exactly
what you need
to know to produce your own mobile content. We emphasize
creating great
mobile multimedia experiences for cell phones using Flash
Lite.
In addition to exploring development opportunities available
today, you'll learn:
• The capabilities and limitations of Flash for mobile
development.
• Best practices for planning your mobile projects.
• How to efficiently convert Flash projects to mobile.
• The entire production process from planning to
testing and debugging on the device.
• How to create engaging content and user experiences
for small screens.
• How to maximize memory and processor performance of
your applications.
• How to develop for multiple devices with minimal
changes.
• To tap into resources to get you started quickly
• About handy third party utilities.
Who should take this class?
Anyone interested in developing rich media content for mobile
devices
including: mobile developers interested in Flash as a
potential delivery
platform and interface designers who want to use Flash for
mobile design,
Flash developers who wish to leverage their skills for mobile
development,
web designers who want to take advantage of the next big
medium and anyone
interested in Flash's capabilities for mobile devices.
Prerequisite: Flash I or equivalent experience recommended.
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Schedule #: 28235
Section: Z01
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SF State Downtown Campus, 835 Market St
San Francisco, CA 94105
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Hi - this is my first post on this forum and reflects my level of desperation!
I'm a Web Designer and a few weeks back a Client of mind asked if I could produce the artwork for their new brochure as I'd designed their website...I stupidly said yes. Having never designed for print before I made some (incorrect) assumptions that I could simply knock something up in AI and it would be a piece of cake - how wrong I was.
Now, having completed the artwork and submitted it to the Printer, they've returned it with a myriad of issues that I never anticipated, nor had any understanding of. I've managed to solve most of them through sheer perseverance and too many hours Googling however, there is one issue which is driving me mad and I'm hoping/praying somebody on this forum can help.
Basically the front cover of this brochure has a group of six images designed to look like a load of old Polaroid photos - this looks fine in AI and as a PDF yet whenever I add trim marks (as the Printer requires), a number of very fine lines appear around this group of images - you can see them on the image attached. They seem very random to me and when I click on the group in the PDF version, all sorts of random blocks in various shapes and sized appear. I've obviously mucked-up badly but quite how I have no idea.
If anyone reading this message has any inkling on how I can fix this, I would be eternally grateful for a solution. My Client is running out of patience and I'm already into the Red on this project so can't even outsource it.
Thanks in advance.

You info seems on th surface to be thorough but I am not certain that is the case for instance.
What seems to be an issue is how you created the collage of images and in what state the result is in?
That is; is it a embedded image or several embedded images, has an effect been applied to the images?
Regardless i think the art should be composed in photoshop and placed as a flattened image into Illustrator
and that a rectangle with no fill or stroke be placed behind the art in the position of the trimming and use that
no fill no stroke box to apply the trim marks. I would then expand the effect applied to the n fill no stroke rectangle
and not involve the art (image).
I would make certain the image is cmyk when saving from Photoshop at the proper size and resolution of the actual printed piece.
Do not scale images in AI that will not preflight well.
The reason you want it CMYK is otherwise Illustrator will do the conversion since you probably have a cmyk color mode selected for you document.
Also you must make certain that your color settings match the profiles you are using for the document in Photoshop and Illustrator and the image.
You must ask the pprinter for any profile they wish ,you to use load it in the proper directory and then load it onto Illustrator and Photoshop.
Or as they used to do in the old days hire a freelancer to do this all for you, watch them and (this is the hard part) learn and listen to them.
BTW I have mostly print experience but do some web work, I feel for you I often receive material from clients laid out in Word and my client want it to look like the printed page, it is hard for them to understand the difference. I stopped trying to get them to follow some basic rules and just find a way of making it work.
It must be just as difficult going the other way. I thought if I created a template that would be it and they would hire web designers to maintain the site
but each person does it differently and no one followed my directive.
I am just warning you once you get this piece working they will give it at some point to another graphic designer and then somewhere down the road they will return to you and it will be a mess. Even if they do not come back to you they will complain when the other designer screws it up.
What your future holds in store for you.
I however have been blessed another client has hired a web designer to do her site. And one that is savvy enough to use tiff originals to start with and not jpegs. Bless her.

Books? AS3 & Web Design...

Im new to everything programming wise, the epitome of a newbie. But I really want to learn. I can work the timeline, make animations etc, but I cant
get tutorials to teach me actionscript because they either expect you to have background knowledge or are using AS2.
I have the latest copy of Flash, and am obviously using AS3.
So from what I understand the way to go is to buy a book (feel free to correct me if im wrong) so can anyone point me in the direction of a book that
accepts the fact that I know nothing about AS to start with.
Also the reason I want to learn flash I to design websites. Is this the best way to learn to create websites? And Is there any subsequent web design packages that go with it that I need to learn?

Well it would make things a little easier if you already had a background in working with Actionscript, but I think reading through a book is a good way to go about it. I typically will spend some time at Barnes & Noble reading through Flash books and taking notes.Here is a book that I think is really good at getting you started in AS3: 'Learning Actionscript 3.0,' http://www.learningactionscript3.com.
Another thing I think that helps a lot is watching video tutorials, so you can the actual steps that are being made. I think Lynda.com is a great place to get good video tutorials, but it's a paid service; I'm not sure if they have a trial but it would be worth a look.
Well good luck with your adventure.

Web Design Market

Hi, I recently started going back to my web design which I left a few years ago when I started my master. At that time I was a web designer working with Freehand, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop etc, My focus was interface design for computer applications, graphic design and mainly web design (only interface design and client side programming such as actionscripting for Flash), I tried to learn server side programming like .net C++, C # VB, ASP etc but found them so hard to catch up, as far as I never had enough time for both Graphic side (interface design) and programming, at the end I chose to stick to my interface design and leave server side programming to experts.
Considering all these, that now I'm going back to my old habit, interface design for websites, want to know how market is for this right now?
I know if you go for server-side and .net even though many are outsourced to India still there are opportunity but interface design which I mean the combination of Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks,Photoshop is unclear for me.
Please tell me how do you see the market in this field (interface design). My worries are recently I felt a lot of people want a person to do everything together (database, graphic design, server side programming plus interface design!) and if this is true I wont go anywhere by focusing only on Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks,Photoshop at the same time there is absolutely no way for me to try ASP.net and similar applications , I never have time to focus both on programming and interface design. Would like you to share your experience with me.
In other words will I go anywhere in this market if I just focus on Web Design (interface design) with Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks,Photoshop?
(I don't use these applications for print media)
Thank you.

Dear Web Designer,
Why don't you post your Web Design question in the Web Design forum?
http://forums.adobe.com/community/design_development/webdesign
This one here is for comments about the forums as such. Such as they are!

Web design with Keynote?

Hello. I just purchased Keynote '08 with hopes of using it to supplement my basic web design in iWeb '06. I have been able to put together a slide show with multiple slides and hyper links linking them that resembles how I'd like my website to appear. I export it to Flash which creates both an .swf and .html file of my project. When I open the .html in either browser is looks good and the links work. I know this is sort of a work around to real web design but is it possible to publish the Keynote export as my website, full screen and with all its interactive links and motions? I haven't been able to get iWebmore to work correctly. Or is there another way to publish an .swf file as a full fledged site? Thanks in advance.

If you upgrade to iWeb '08 you may not need to +"get iWebmore to work correctly."+ ...You can use iWeb '08's +HTML Snippet+ window as mentioned in this +"Flash in iWeb"+ tutorial:
http://web.mac.com/catucker/InsideOutside/Flash.html

Three Musketeers in Web Design

maybe it is a well-known fact that dreamweaver, flash and fireworks are the three musketeers in Adobe web design. the combination of these three musketeers in web design is a necessary tool in the development of the website. if there is someone else can replace Fireworkers, then Photoshop and CorelDRAW can. Frontpage is only helpful to beginners. some more complicated website cannot be designed. Dreamweaver is better in eeeeeeeeweb design, but in picture processing, Photoshop has more disadvantages. however, Fireworkers has more merits in web design. after the acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe, Macromedia has many softwares stop producing. however, these three musketeers can survive and devolop continously, and they keep churning out brand new products.

Did you copy & paste this from a 1990's article on web design? It sure looks it.
Nancy O.

What kind of job can I get being a Web Designer/Graphic Designer?

I run BlackReefDesigns.com, and am doing quite a bit of
business consider I don't really advertise too much. I've learned
how to do eCommerce, Flash, etc and things are progressing nicely.
I feel confident in my skills, and I realize that anything I
don't know how to do, I can learn rather quickly. The problem is I
feel I need to become more of a 'business man' if I want my company
to really move forward. I'm only 23 years old so I was thinking of
going and working for a Web/Graphic design firm so I can learn more
about the business aspect of running my own company. Im also
working towards a B.A. in Graphic Design at a larger University in
Southern California...
Just curious, with my skillset, how much money could I, or
should I be making if I went and worked for someone else? Do you
guys know anybody in Southern California that I could work for?
thanks in advance

eh, teachers don't always know what they're talking about. in
fact, i
think a lot of the posts made here are a direct result of
poor teaching.
i know that's how i got a lot of my bad habits (not from a
teacher,
per se, but my first boss who taught me some basics) a lot of
people
think they know the dos and don'ts but really don't (plus,
they tend to
change). i thought i knew a lot of stuff until i started
coming here and
learned that a lot of what i thought was the right way to do
things
actually wasn't.
come here often. and listen to what these people say because
they know
their stuff (you'll quickly figure out who the ones are that
know what
they're talking about). i can't tell you how much i've
learned in the
relatively short time i've been a part of this forum. and i'm
still
learning!
teach yourself html. you don't have to be able to write an
entire site
by hand, but at least be able to look at the code and
understand what it
means. like others said, you seem to have a good grasp of
graphic
design, but websites have to be more than graphics.
to answer your money question, it really kind of depends on
the market
where you live. you might just want to look in the want ads
and see what
kind of salaries are being offered for this type of work in
your town.
there's also resources on the web where you can see average
salaries for
various jobs in different places. yahoo has one
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/salary)
but there are lots of others if you
search for something like "compare my salary."
good luck! you seem willing to learn, which is great!
JSloanSDRE wrote:
> JoeyD -
>
> I really appreciate your input. I wish more people would
be critical of my
> work. I can't ever progress when people say 'good job,
looks great'.
>
> I've learned everything myself when it comes to web
design, and it sucks
> because I wish I could have had a teacher to teach me
the do's and don'ts as I
> think I would have progressed much farther over the last
couple of years.
>
> I have been busy working on client work and haven't
updated my personal
> website in awhile (which I realize is a big no-no if I
want future business)
> but there is really no excuse for the padding issue. I
actually just fixed it
> right now.
>
> Again, thanks for the input, and I realize I have a
loooong way to go in Web
> Design, and that is why I want to get a job somewhere so
I can learn and work
> at the same time. I think however I am proficient in
Graphic Design and am
> curious as to how much income I would have working for a
firm as oppose to
> freelancing (just in Graphic Designs)
>
> thanks again JoeyD, and any future advice would be great
>

Whats the best web designer for mac?

My site, jayapps.co.uk, is built on iWeb. But whats the best designer to use? (Mustn't be flash)

I concur, this is what most professionals use. Dreamweaver is a horrible tool for this purpose, but it's favored because of it being packaged with other Adobe tools and there being a certain level of integration between them.
If you are on a Mac and not already tithing to Adobe, you might like Freeway Pro, or even something basic like Nvu might satisfy your needs.
Unfortunately, I've never really found what I would personally consider a reasonable platform for web-design: a powerful editor with integrated JavaScript debugger and real-time preview that can read actual HTML, CSS, and JavaScript as the native format; one that handles refactoring and changing the filesystem layout properly, integrates image editing, etc.

Web Design; Flash blocked in I.E.

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