Apple, Inc. has updated QuickTime to 7.2 and iTunes to 7.3.1, respectively. As for QuickTime, non-pro users are now able to have a fullscreen display. And, according to Apple, numerous bugs have been fixed with this release. If you are using Mac OS X, you can update your QuickTime and iTunes from the desktop menu. Simply, select ‘Software Update’ under Apple symbol on the leftmost corner of the menu bar. Continue reading
Building a Website Using CSS 02: Introduction to CSS
Why do you want to build a website using CSS in the first place? That’s mainly because you can instantly make changes to a group of webpages by editing a single style sheet. And building a website using CSS is much easier than you think. Besides, you don’t need specific applications. You just need a text editor to edit CSS files and a web browser to view changes. That means you don’t need theme-based website-building applications like RapidWeaver. You can just start with nothing and end up with a nice website by just editing a style sheet.
Many PHP themes are built with CSS. If you want to create your own themes for phpBB, WordPress and RapidWeaver, you need to use CSS. Don’t be afraid. Again, building a website using CSS is easy as long as you know how to use a graphic editor and also how to edit HTML a little bit.
In this video tutorial series, we use a common graphic application and a text editor to build a website. You can use any graphic application (Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Graphic Converter…) to create themes. You can also use any text editor or HTML editor (Adobe Dreamweaver, TextEdit, BBEdit, Windows’ NotePad…). Continue reading
Building a Website Using CSS 01: Creating a Theme
Why do you want to build a website using CSS in the first place? That’s mainly because you can instantly make changes to a group of webpages by editing a single style sheet. And building a website using CSS is much easier than you think. Besides, you don’t need specific applications. You just need a text editor to edit CSS files and a web browser to view changes. That means you don’t need theme-based website-building applications like RapidWeaver. You can just start with nothing and end up with a nice website by just editing a style sheet.
Many PHP themes are built with CSS. If you want to create your own themes for phpBB, WordPress and RapidWeaver, you need to use CSS. Don’t be afraid. Again, building a website using CSS is easy as long as you know how to use a graphic editor and also how to edit HTML a little bit.
In this video tutorial series, we use a common graphic application and a text editor to build a website. You can use any graphic application (Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop, Graphic Converter…) to create themes. You can also use any text editor or HTML editor (Adobe Dreamweaver, TextEdit, BBEdit, Windows’ NotePad…). Continue reading
Adobe Systems Incorporated has updated its Flash Player 9 to 9.0.47.0 for all platforms to fix security vulnerabilities. According to its Security bulletin, a system without this fix may be vulnerable to remote attacks.
As for the Mac version of Flash 9, Adobe makes available separate patches for Intel-based Macs and PowerPC-based Macs.
Click on the button to download Flash updates for Mac OS. 
Click on the button to download Flash updates for other operating systems.
We are a bit slow these days because of the vacation season. And we also have to do taxes.
Meanwhile, what we are currently working on is a video tutorial series consisting of, perhaps, 6 of them, in which we will show you how to build a website with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
You may say, “Hey, I’ve got RapidWeaver.” Oh, yeah? Forget about RapidWeaver. You won’t need it to build a simple but nice website design. We only use Adobe Fireworks 8 (or any graphic application) and BBEdit (or any text editor including BBEdit Lite, NotePad and TextEdit). In a matter of just 20 minutes or so, you can build a simple website design like …
In this sample website, we use 4 Server Side Includes (SSI) codes to control dynamic text insertions. These video tutorials will be available to members in several days.