The source site for this is: http://www.zend.com
These guys designed their site like a billboard in a way. You can see as you enter the site, the first thing that jumps in your eyes is the "billboard", the header. It uses CSS & JavaScript to flip through graphics, efficiently displaying all the aspects of the site in one place.
Strong Adoption of Creative Suite, Acrobat and Enterprise Solutions Drives 23 Percent Annual Revenue Growth
Press Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. — Dec. 17, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended Nov. 30, 2007.
In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007, Adobe achieved record revenue of $911.2 million, compared to $682.2 million reported for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2006 and $851.7 million reported in the third quarter of fiscal 2007. This represents 34 percent year-over-year revenue growth. Adobe’s fourth quarter revenue target range was $860 to $890 million.
Source: USA Today
Longtime Adobe Systems (ADBE) executive Shantanu Narayenon Dec. 1 became CEO of the software powerhouse. An engineer who had previously worked at Apple (AAPL) and Silicon Graphics (SGIC), he took over from mentor Bruce Chizen, who stepped down.
Narayen takes over as Adobe, best known for Photoshop photo software and Acrobat and PDF digital document tools, is shifting many of its wares from boxed software to online services.
As I am celebrating Designbit’s birthday and looking back over the journey I have been on over the last year. I realised just how much I have learnt about the technologies and design industry itself, for anybody new to web design I want to save you some time and offer some design tips and hints.
KISS (I meant the acronym)
KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) a lovely term obviously coined by some Yorkshire farmer talking about mud or beef or cheese - but annoying as this phrase is it works well. If your not that confident about your design skills or illustrator / photo-shopping then keeping things simple is the best way forward; simple typography; keep the amount of fonts down to increase neatness.
This is a humorous video. It conjures up various feelings in everyone who watches it. However, it also highlights some major flaws in true, reliable, customer service. As a web designer, are you truly meeting the needs of your customers? There are tons of blog posts and articles on the Internet from web designers going on and on about nightmare clients and their sometimes ridiculous demands. Many of them are valid rants. However, there are also many of them that may be the direct result of failures on the part of the web designer. This shouldn’t be a shocking revelation, but web designers aren’t always innocent. Failure is a part of every occupation, every business, and every person. To deny it would be ridiculous.
John Nack (Product Manager of Photoshop at Adobe) writes about the new logo for the Photoshop family of products (including Photoshop Elements, Photoshop Album, Lightroom, etc.).
“To represent this rich family of products, Adobe is introducing the Photoshop visual logo. This logo will soon appear in all Photoshop-related marketing, so keep an eye out for it. The Photoshop logo on a product, service, or technology, represents the rich legacy, technical quality, and attention to detail that has made Photoshop the gold standard in digital imaging.”
InfoTrends Study Shows Significant Changes in Pro Photography Workflows as Image Capture Volumes Increase
InfoTrends Press Release: According to a recent InfoTrends survey of over 1,000 professional photographers across specialties, the increased use of digital photography is leading to new opportunities in the imaging industry. It’s no surprise that the percentage of total digital images captured by pros has grown from 82% in 2006 to 89% in 2007; however, a pronounced increase in the number of digital images captured per week by the average pro suggests that software, service, and printing solution providers are likely to benefit in the long run.
Out of the same voyeuristic tendency that made internet hits of postsecret,overheard in new york,chat status messages, the twitter public timeline and—let’s face it—tons of other digital people watching comes Overheard.it, a new project by Digital Web columnist Jonathan Snook and his partners at Sidebar Creative.Overheard.it scours public Twitter posts for common conventions for amusing and strange things overheard by bored Twitterers, and collects them into one site for your viewing pleasure. Much like Dan Cederholm’s Foamee, Overheard.it is another interesting extension application on top of other services (Twitter, in both cases) made available through APIs and libraries.
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I’m going to back up a bit here today and cover social bookmarking again. During the last week I received an email from one of my team members from the thirty day challenge chastising me for leaving the team. In fact he was down rite insulting. It appears that the only thing that the other team members and myself are good for is to help him pawn his wares. He must have assumed that I would bookmark his content regardless of whether the content was good or not. Well this person has missed the boat completely. This is NOT what social bookmarking is all about and it appeared to me that he just wants to game the system. In my opinion if you game you loose.
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How does the Internet work with marketing anyways? I’m sure that if you asked this question to fifty people you would get fifty different answers.
There are thousands of people giving your their opinions on how to make the net work for you and to tell you the truth ninety percent of these suggestions are pure garbage. Now a days people are so impatient. It appears that most think that if you put up a few post with an affiliate link that they will instantly become rich. There is so much junk on the net it is truly hard to get passed all the noise to the source of the truth that you seek.
