Tag: Web Design

Adobe Creative Cloud and its impact on Web Designers

Web designers tend to rely on Adobe’s creative software tools. They use tools like Photoshop for image editing and Dreamweaver for HTML editing. Last week Adobe announced a new version of their creative software, but the features and capabilities weren’t the biggest thing on designer’s minds. What caught the attention of most web design firms and individual designers was the new way for licensing the software. No longer would you buy the software outright, but instead you would lease the software. If you didn’t keep up with your lease payments, your ability to use the software would expire.

Web designers have mixed feelings about this. Some are up in arms, equating this to a hardware store requiring monthly payments for a hammer over the entire time you will be using it, instead of simply selling it to you. Others who regularly update their software don’t appear to be as upset.

It remains to be seen if the users who are upset will decide to boycott the subscription model. After all, they have Adobe’s software applications that are working and don’t require monthly fees. If enough users decide to not upgrade, will Adobe be forced to change directions with their Adobe Creative Cloud licensing?

About the author:
Jennifer Smith is co-founder of American Graphics Institute, an Adobe training provider. She is the author of numerous Photoshop Books, and also teaches Photoshop Classes and HTML Classes.

New Website Launched for Found Somerville

We recently designed, developed, and now are hosting the new website for FOUND of Somerville, MA. The site can be viewed at Found Somerville

FOUND is an upscale consignment clothing store based in Somerville, MA but has customers from all over the United States. This is their first website and so we designed and developed a scalable solution.

The project came together over a few weeks with the help of the staff at FOUND giving a strong guidance of what the look and feel of their online presence should be like.

Clean, simple, and efficient was the focus and a site that is able to grow. Check out their site and take a look in a few weeks to see what has been added.

We want to take this opportunity to say that it was our pleasure to work with the staff at FOUND and we encourage you all to stop by their Somerville location and check them out.

How to center a web page with CSS

The most common question I get asked when teaching CSS layout design is how to center a web page in the browser. Let me show you how:

Create a container for all of your page content and place it inside your body tags of the HTML page:

<body>

   <div id=”container”>

      <p>Your web page content goes here</p>

   </div>

</body>

Then style that container using the following CSS code:

#container {

   width:960px;

   margin-left:auto;

   margin-right:auto;

}

That’s it! You now have a container 960 pixels wide that is centered in the browser. Just place all of your page content inside of the container div tags (the content itself will be left aligned within the container).