Merry Christmas 2009!!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all the Web Design Ideas Blog readers! Wishing you God’s blessings, health, happiness and success!

~ Valik

Dreamweaver CS4 Can’t Copy & Paste Code

Do you ever feel like big companies sometimes feel like they just don’t care? It’s probably because they really don’t.

Before I spend another couple of grand on the Adobe CS4 Master Collection, I decided to order the 30-day trial version, just to put a 30-day space between me throwing thousands of dollars around. (I’m referring to my recent iMac purchase that I wrote about in the last post in case you didn’t’ read it).

Everything is working great but one thing that I find very annoying is that Dreamweaver CS4 has a problem with copying selections of code. If you go to select a part of the code in Code view it highlights the entire code and copies it instead. Nothing I do seems to help. Some sort of glitch. I thought it was just my computer or something but after Googling it I find that a lot of people are suffering the same issues. As far as I can tell this goes back all the way to March 2009. I just wonder why Adobe has not fixed it yet.

I called Adobe but they don’t want to speak with me about it because I do not have their full version of software. They sent me to fill out a support ticket on their website but on the website they only give you certain things you can submit a support ticket on, based on their record of my purchases in my account. Since I have not purchased the real version, Dreamweaver is not one of the choices available.

Soo, I am thinking, isn’t the trial version there for you  to test the software and then purchase the real thing? So if the trial version does not work – why would someone buy the full version? As a company wouldn’t they want to take care of a potential customer that is one step away from making a purchase?

I am considering buying the CS3 version of the master collection… I know it works, I’ve been using it for a couple of years with no problems.

Man, it’s not like I’m buying a popsicle, this is a 2 thousand dollar purchase, it better work.

If anyone knows about this issue and found a fix, would you please let me know in the comments? Or if you have a similar situation, leave your experiences in the comments too.

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Till next time,

~ Valik

Finally… Got me my iMac!

Dear Readers,

I finally went out and got me my iMac on Saturday. It’s a 27-inch!

This switching over to Mac idea is so exciting to me that I even started a new blog about iMacs called iMacology.com. I posted more about my purchase there. You’ll find a lot of other iMac info there too so go check it out.

~ Valik

Bummer On My New iPhone Dream

I hate it when I look forward to something and get too excited about it too soon. A few months ago I called AT&T and asked them when my contract expires with them so I can upgrademy phonw to iPhone… I thought I was told February 2010. Ever since then I’ve been secretly extremely excited about it.

Yesterday while on the phone with an AT&T rep I asked just to make sure which day in February it expires and she said “February? It’s actiually June 22nd”…… …..

…..

“WHAT???” that’s me screaming in my head as my bubble of excitement bursts. Another seven months to wait. I’m goin to go and play with my Razor V3 and try to pretend to enjoy it…

Till next time dudes & dudets.

~ Valik

The Mind Mapping Street: A Copy Cat Solution?

by Giancarlo Gallegos

One of the most difficult task that we face as designers is to be able to generate ideas. Just look around in the internet, the streets, magazines and you will find many design or logos looking very much similar but not quite. Often, I ask myself how much original content is out there? How do I create an original idea? Or, is it possible to create an original idea?

If you are like me, the answer was staring at my face the whole time. I have been using it but did not know what it really is. It is called Mind Mapping. To my surprise, it has been with us for the past four decades. What is mind mapping?

Mind mapping is a graphical way of presenting ideas and concepts. It is a visual thinking tool that helps us structure, analyze, synthesize, recall information and, more so, generate new ideas.
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