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09/23/2008

The new CMS on the block: Sitemasher.com

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I have been dabbling in Sitemasher.com for about a week on and off now and am quite smitten by many of its offerings. They are really taking the “right” approach to a CMS in several directions; particularly in arena of building a very fully functional custom app that has database integration right from the go without having to do any additional configuration or coding as a developer. I believe this to be rather novel in light of the many, many other CMS platforms I’ve worked with and tested over the last few years.

I highly recommend taking a look. I’ll have a more detailed review as I continue to evaluate it, use it and if I determine it to be a replacement for a bit of work we’re involved in at the moment.

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08/28/2008

75 Powerful Adobe Fireworks Extensions - making it greater than Photoshop in many ways

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Excellent list and as I mentioned in the comments:

I’m so happy to see this! I’ve been explaining to associates for years that Fireworks, for the most part, is so much more useful than Photoshop (by this I mean for designs that combine bitmap and vector elements). Others who are very experienced with both Photoshop AND Fireworks have always concurred as we know when to use each.

I’ve been using Photoshop since 2.5.1 and certainly understand its depth, but Fireworks obliterates Photoshop and Illustrator for SO many tasks that it makes me really laugh when I see people dedicating so much time to doing the same things that could be done in a fraction of the time in Fireworks. Thanks so much for sharing!

And yes, I’ve known about 90% of these plugins and use them myself. Bravo for compiling the list!

By the way, I’d love to see Adobe get *smart* and integrate Photshop and Illustrator INTO Fireworks or at least have all three apps living under one unified roof with a selectable user interface and/or command set so that you could flip between them if you’re more familiar with one or the other and then also we’d have the very powerful bitmap editing of Photoshop and the very powerful vector illustrating of Illustrator merged at the perfect intersection of Fireworks.

75 Powerful Adobe Fireworks Extensions - It really can be as Great as Photoshop : Speckyboy - Web Design, Web Development and Graphic Design Resources.

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