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Web design and development, especially in Web 2.0 and Publishing 2.0 environments. Covers software that helps the publishing and design process.
Adobe saw the rise of interest in the semantic web and promptly started investing heavily in a metadata initiative. It elevated Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) to the status of core Adobe technology, along with Adobe PDF and Postscript. The Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform is a labeling technology that allows you to embed data about a file, known as metadata, into the file itself. With XMP, desktop applications and back-end publishing systems gain a common method for capturing, sharing, and leveraging this valuable metadata opening the door for more efficient job processing, workflow automation, and rights management, among many other possibilities. Currently, Adobe is allowing users to preview version 4 of its Adobe XMP Toolkit.
But there’s more: a company called Pound Hill Software has released a complete software toolkit at the 11th Digital Asset Management (DAM) Symposium in Los Angeles on November 14-15, 2005. MetaGrove is the world’s first integrated suite of software tools for Adobe’s Extensible Metadata Platform. The comprehensive, robust toolkit consists of MetaGrove Developer, MetaGrove Plug-ins for Adobe’s Creative Suite, and MetaGrove XTension for QuarkXPress.
Bart Farkas write this book on podcasting before the release of GarageBand 3. It therefore contains many tips and tricks that are only useful to you if you’re working with a Windows PC, or if you stubbornly insist on using inefficient software.
Internet-based news is forcing the press industry to rethink its online strategies and the use of Web content management (WCM). In 2005, Forrester interviewed 20 leading European and North American press organizations about WCM adoption, pain points, and future plans.
Jared Spool is CEO and co-founder of User Interface Engineering (UIE), a think tank. They advise clients how to design their browser-based systems for the best information retrieval experience possible. This includes web sites, but also knowledge management systems --nowadays better known as enterprise content management systems.
Freeway 4 Pro has enhanced and expanded support for CSS. The support glares you in the eye right in the main window --it’s a blue CSS button-- but oddly enough the ways to change CSS layouts with Freeway 4 Pro isn’t immediately obvious without the new CSS primer being written by SoftPress.
Softpress, the British developer of Freeway 4, claims Freeway is the easiest and yet powerful way to design and develop web sites. I’ve reviewed Freeway in the past, and always found it to be up to the job, but version 4 is something special. You might say Freeway has matured to the point it is very much a viable alternative for Dreamweaver.
Dreamweaver 8 is Macromedia’s newest attempt at developing the most compatible and powerful web site creator and manager. The experiences are mixed. Some of Dreamweaver’s already considerable power has been improved, while some other claims do not live up to expectations. But overall, Macromedia has made this version of Dreamweaver worthwhile upgrading for. And wasn’t that what software upgrades are all about?
WebAssist Site Import is a plug-in for Dreamweaver MX 2004. It is a somewhat strange type of plug-in in that it offers functionality with which you can spy on other sites. WA Site Import enables you to download web pages into Dreamweaver and see how they’re structured.
Site Soap is Talacia Software‘s web code cleaning application. Site Soap makes sure your code is streamlined, taking up as little space as possible. It also optimizes GIF, JPEG and PNG images.
Most professional web designers will tell you they use a simple text editor to create their web pages and Cascading StyleSheets. But there’s always room for improvement. GoodPage could be just the kind of program that fulfills every web designer’s needs.
From XrML to RFID, developers and publishers are trying hard to make using “their” content beyond what they want, impossible. DRM is to equal total control over content, if publishers get what they want.
Media Lab created a Dreamweaver plug-in, called Well Rounded. This plug-in creates rectangles with rounded corners for you. It does it well, with just the right mixture of ease-of-use and customisation capabilities.
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