Lawrence Siulagi

I just worked on a mockup using Fireworks CS4 and am in love with this prototyping tool. While I haven’t used Fireworks since it was owned by Macromedia, this is definitely not your father’s Fireworks.

With cool new collaborative features (albeit with other Adobe tools) and much needed enhancements like customizable assets in the common library and better text handling, Fireworks makes me want to use it for all all my design mockups.

I haven’t experimented with the CSS in the style panel, but from looking at the code I exported, it looks like it’s doing the job right. The PDF export is nice for more secure options and the software’s GUI is much improved using snap-to widgets.

But while there is an improvement in speed, I would still recommend using it with nothing less than an Intel Duo Core processor. Also, I’ve never really been a layer-slicing kind of designer but I’m keen to learn how others use this feature.

And alas, Photoshop, do not feel overlooked. You’re still my number one image editor. 0_x

A day of tweaking images, CSS and PHP files. Testing out the zillion plugins/widgets available for WordPress.

Note to widget authors: Don’t assign yourself 5 stars for your own widget. Who does that? Stop it people. I always count the number of users who submitted a review. If the number of stars equals five and the number of users equals one, I check who gave the review. If you’re the author, I won’t try it out until other people download your widget and/or review it.

Also: helped out someone with their website using the barter system. Did lots of template tweaking with good results. Sometimes I most happy when I’m designing. After tweaking my blog image header, I think I’ll put up a screencast of how I did it.

Better throw in that I applied for a senior web design position for a national corporation with offices here in Portland. Yet another long process of filling out profile info but we’ll see how it pans out.

Okay, off to bed after a full day of WordPress tweaks. I gotta launch my site sometime.

Going to buy a scanner tomorrow to scan artwork for my portfolio section.