I have just got a new PC at work, so I thought I’d update on the luck of actually solving a problem without spending hours to find out what’s wrong. As you may or may not know, there seems to be a common problem that Acers’ security solution makes Adobe Dreamweaver crash on startup. So after installing my Dreamweaver CS4 which I have had a lot of pains with on the previous PC it was no shock that something was wrong. Luckily I stumbled quickly over the solution, a patch for the Acer program, and that worked. Get it at Egistec.

The blog has been a bit quiet lately, and obviously I’ll only update when I have something useful to put here. The plan is to update soon with the quickest and most painless way to make your site IE6 compatible, especially if you implement your pages using floats. What’s delaying it is the fact that I gave a total toss about IE6 when I made this page, so I have to replace some PNG’s with GIF’s so that it isn’t slowed down by the png fixes you need for IE6. So after I’ve fixed my page, which is the exception of the rule, I’ll post the solution.

Update: The link I previously posted for the fix doesn’t work for me, but I found a new link for the fix.

When I started working in the company I currently work for, they used Macromedia Fireworks for setting up webpage designs. I thought it looked like a hassle, and had always used Adobe Photoshop for it. As I learned more and more of Fireworks, there was no way back to Photoshop. Photoshop has been for photos after this.

Fireworks (obviously Adobe Fireworks now) is quite simply a breeze to work with. Currently in version CS4 I thought I’d share the reasons as to why it’s so simple to set up something to work with, and change it later. Maybe someone still using Photoshop for setting up designs will see the light.

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