Adobe’s Insane Pricing
June 14, 2010
So you want to buy Adobe’s CS5 Master Collection do you? Well if you’re American that’ll set you back a cool $2,599USD which isn’t a bad price considering the amount of software in the bundle. Adobe really do have the market cornered, there are plenty of options when it comes to coding, but if you’re looking to design – you really will need at least one of the following Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks and/or InDesign.
Should you want to pick up a copy of CS5 Master Collection in the UK then you can expect to pay £2,706.02GBP. Now I know that the pound isn’t particularly strong against the dollar at the moment but I have to say that is completely ridiculous. A quick conversion (using Google’s current exchange rate) of the US price to pounds comes out at £1767.32, which means that UK customers are paying almost £1,000 more than customers in the US. Am I the only one that finds this a little bit unfair?
Workflow | 5 comments
FreeAgent Review + Discount Code
May 24, 2010For the last few years I’ve been logging all incomings and outgoings using a combination of MS Excel and a mac based application called Billable. To begin with it worked great, but over time I got busier and busier and things started slipping. I’d forget to log work, invoice very sporadically and as a result I never really had a grip on my accounts. That’s when a friend recommended FreeAgent to me, so I had a look and signed up for a 30 day free trial. (more…)
Reviews, Workflow | 6 comments
The Fold Does Exist
February 22, 2010
Above the fold, most web designers out there absolutely hate that term. If you don’t know what it means, where the hell have you been? It’s a term mostly used by clients when they want more eyes on a certain piece of information and want it repositioned further up the page where a user doesn’t have to scroll to see it.
The general feeling on this one from the world’s web designers is that the fold doesn’t exist and to a degree they’re right. Obviously computer screens and monitors don’t fold, the terminology has been adopted from the graphic design world where newspapers were folded for display purposes – hence the important information being displayed above the fold. (more…)
Design | 2 comments
He Who Shouts Loudest
February 18, 2010
Pick up an industry magazine, read an industry blog and it won’t be long before you come across some kind of list of the best designers in the industry (and let’s face it, there’s no shortage of list based blog posts out there!). The problem I have with these lists is, while they often do feature some good designers, they are almost always centred around the most prominent bloggers. And there’s a difference. (more…)
Design | 11 comments
Adobe Browserlab – First Impressions
November 9, 2009Browser testing, it’s a pain but it has to be done. As a mac user it’s even more painful. I’ve never been comfortable with the idea of installing VMware Fusion and Windows on my Mac, it just doesn’t seem right. (more…)