BrainFuel

Contributor Vieko Franetovic’s plan: to plan and create a personal portfolio site in less than 30 hours.

He comments: “The planning and structural decisions where defined over the first 2 days. All the interface elements, the content optimization, the coding where completed on the fly and the easiest less-prone-to failure solutions were applied. Entirely built in Photoshop, Illustrator and Dreamweaver MX. “

Comments are welcome and encouraged.

“The best way to distinguish between advertising and marketing is to think of marketing as a pie, inside that pie you have slices of advertising, market research, media planning, public relations, product pricing, distribution, customer support, sales strategy, and community involvement. Advertising only equals one piece of the pie in the strategy.” Quoted from an About.com article.

Check out some of the awesome new production cars and concepts shown at this years Frankfurt Auto Show.

I think the simple colors and subtle typography and imagery make this site called Lunch At Noon a winner hands down.

I liked the simple design and layout of the homepage for Portal. I think the large picture and block of text on the upper left side tell exactly what they do so I don’t need to hunt around.

So you’re a creative pro currently using Macromedia Studio MX… You know Macromedia’s announced a newer version, which including Flash Professional, costs $499 to upgrade to. That’s what their site store charges.

And along comes Amazon, selling the same thing for $299? It might a typo, but to save $200 on something you’ll buy anyways? We’ve already pre-ordered 2 copies. I think they’ll have to honor their advertising even if it is a mistake!

Gosh people, this is the most awesome car I have ever seen.

How many people do you now besides James Bond that can drive their car into the water and pull a skier (it can do that)?? This thing goes 30MPH in the water and 100MPH on land. Too bad they’re only selling them in the UK right now. Check out these Yahoo Photos.

Chris and I attended the local Flash users group tonight, where through a Breeze presentation, the Macromedia product managers gave a walkthrough of the new features in each of the MX Studio products. Here’s Gulfstream’s site, which was built entirely in MX 2004 Studio.

The upgrades for Flash and Dreamweaver look excellent, the highlights being for me:

Dreamweaver: Complete CSS support built in, including WYSIWYG positioning. I feel they should have had this ability in MX already, (given that CSS2 has long been released) but I suppose even now they have no competitors. A must-have for building svelte, standards-compliant sites, its WYSIWYG power will save hours when building entirely CSS-based sites such as this one.

Flash: now in 2 flavors, you’ll probably want to go with the “Professional” version. They’ve added Behaviors for doing common tasks that usually take a lot of writing Actionscript, making it easier for newbies to learn the program, as well as speeding up the workflow for anyone. What I like most about the Pro version is the “forms” view, which seems to better represent the way I think about most sites when I build them. It’s less timeline centric, and more focused around interacting and building upon data screens. That helps when you’re building applications. Timelines are for animations!

Did I leave anything out? Oh, boxes ship and demos are out mid-September they say.