Posted on October 14th, 2010 by David Montgomery Jr.
I’m looking for a college that has a good (and up-to-date) computer graphic design program in Philadelphia or nearby where the facilities and faculty are up on all the new programs. Any suggestions?
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Posted on October 10th, 2010 by David Montgomery Jr.
The layout file had an Adobe InDesign CS3 icon and the proper “.iNDD” file extension yet would not open in CS4, CS3 or quite frankly anything Adobe! Why? Because, as it turned out, it was really a QuarkXPress layout and a version 5.01 file at that! The customer though it was a corrupt InDesign job. No, it was not my file format x-ray vision that told me that, but FlightCheck Professional from Markzware. And with the help of Q2ID (Quark to InDesign) I was able to get this customers file converted into an InDesign…
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Posted on October 8th, 2010 by David Montgomery Jr.
When you start out on a website project, the whole cost question looms large. And, of course, it’s not just a matter of the financial cost. There’s the whole time and personal effort aspect too. Because even if you have a fabulous website designer who charges entirely reasonable rates, your website won’t get built unless you can brief your designer properly.
* The value of preparation
When people ask me how long it takes to design a website, they usually want to know how long it takes a website designer to do the design and build work. When in…
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