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- joaob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+71" 7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving."
That one made me smile and laugh out loud a little bit. - disillusioned, on 10/12/2007, -2/+66I'll post mine:
I have CTRL Z as my license plate.
(Really: http://www.originalityisoverrated.com/redir.php?r=d&redir=/images/camz.jpg ) - Lou3000, on 10/16/2007, -1/+64How about...you have thought about Ctrl-z-ing something in real life.
- mojo4126, on 10/12/2007, -2/+58 25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer
(In no particular order)
1. You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
2. You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
3. You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your girlfriend’s blouse than listen to what she has to say. (Sorry Ladies)
4. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
5. You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
6. You consider meals interruptions.
7. You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
8. You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
9. You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers.
10. You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
11. You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
12. When you heard that Adobe was acuiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
14. You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
15. You’ve actually $paid for a font.
16. You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer)
17. The amount of words you’ve written with a sharpie labeling burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
18. You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
19. You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
20. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
21. You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
22. You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
23. You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
24. You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
25. If you had a penny for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago. - maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+46same, but then I started to cry
- flap, on 10/16/2007, -2/+31guilty.
- appleswitch, on 10/17/2007, -1/+29We were pulling through Whataberger and I asked my friend to scroll around till he found the trashcan.
The menu was under the glass of the table, and I spent 5 seconds looking for the F11 (expose) button to move my plate.
I almost always accidentally say 'delete' instead of 'throw away'.
This chick gave me an awful look once for starring at her chest, I was studying the grunge font on her shirt.
Digg for the menu design one. - e68895f, on 10/16/2007, -0/+28final_stage3_customerapproved2_converted_flatted3.psd .....
yeah.... - chris9902, on 10/16/2007, -1/+27I use Dreamweaver to hand code. I really wish people would stop thinking everyone who uses DW uses the WYSIWYG editor.
I had to stop putting it on my CV because it had a negative impact in 2 interviews. And trying to explain just isn't worth the hassle. - jus1haz2, on 10/16/2007, -1/+26Almost once a day
- phmfthacim, on 10/16/2007, -8/+31um, excuse me, command-z-ing
- shanmac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2326. You buy things because you like the packaging and not the things inside.
- jus1haz2, on 10/16/2007, -0/+21smart.....
- Slipknotic, on 10/17/2007, -3/+23Every time you see an add , box cover, magazine cover, or any art, you know exactly what steps they took to make it in photoshop.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2320. You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)
meatspin - ricksite, on 10/16/2007, -0/+16I comment on Digg while driving in my car and I have nev
- Th0Rr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19thought this was dumb until i read this:
13. When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later) - opticsnake, on 10/16/2007, -1/+16@chris9902
Me too. Dreamweaver's wysiwyg editor sucks anyways. But it's a great program for helping you to find bugs in your code (ie, forgetting to close a quotes or tag) and the auto-complete definitely speeds up your productivity which comes in handy when you've got a deadline to meet. - CheapDigWannbe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Oh damn... I've actually rear ended a car because I was taking photos of the way snow flew behind fast moving cars.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17"12. When you heard that Adobe was acuiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm."
No...we freaked the ***** out...because less competition != better. - KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15"You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)"
Sure have. "The Spinning Wheel O' Death" - kris33, on 10/17/2007, -2/+13Wow. I'm shocked. When I read it, it felt like the author had readed my mind. Especially on point 23:
"You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design."
Thought I was the only one doing this. Guess I was wrong. - JohnKappa, on 10/25/2008, -0/+1026. You've been accused of staring at a girls breasts when in fact you where trying to work out the typeface used on the quirky slogan on her Tee.
- SiRwhilms, on 10/16/2007, -0/+6Photoshop for GFX, sliced (not as a layout but as a collection of images I'll need) and exported for web. I discard the generated HTML and code it in XHTML+CSS by hand in Notepad++.
- AK10, on 10/17/2007, -1/+7"You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately)"
I call it "The Beachball of Needing a 8-core Xeon" - jofer, on 10/16/2007, -0/+5Photoshop/Illustrator + Vim, mostly.
Dreamweaver is nice in some cases, especially when multiple people with widely varying skill levels need to work on the same project, but if it's just me, I don't use it much. - Alphabet, on 10/16/2007, -3/+8I'm curious about how other digg users are designing their sites.
I'm sure most of you use photoshop or gimp to create the layout design.
But after you cut up the design, do you hardcode it using a text editor or do you use a program like dreamweaver? - resplence, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Spamming is not the way to go.
- CeeJayDK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5How many people haven't gotten married for just that reason ?
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I can only imagine how much more efficient people would be if we didn't have to eat.
- ElectricGrandpa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4At the shop I work at, we make mostly Flash minisites, and we use Fireworks for all design... Flash for Flash sites, and hand-coding in Dreamweaver for html sites. Fireworks is way better for making most websites than Photoshop once you learn how to use it... Although good sites can be made in both, after all, they're just tools.
- bmxboy661, on 10/16/2007, -4/+74. You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded,
Quicksilver on OS X. is it a good thing or a bad thing? - kris33, on 10/16/2007, -0/+3I am using Smultron for HTML right now, but I am thinking about changing to Dreamweaver, since Smultron is pure code and has no auto-suggest feature. But I wonder: Are there any good alternatives(to Dreamweaver) out there for pure HTML-coding on OS X? I do not like Dreamweaver, but I admit its auto-suggest feature.
I use CSSEdit for CSS. I love it and it made it really easy to learn CSS. Would recommend it to anyone :) Check it out on iusethis.com :)
And Photoshop for images, Fireworks for mock-ups and of course Flash for Flash :) - Lane5slacker, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Ariel Font with a small white stroke, drop shadow, and slight gradient overlay.
- Brishen, on 10/12/2007, -5/+826. You have some sort of special art pen within arms reach of your bed, for sketching out designs.
- TheIconoclast31, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I love how this is a COMPLETE tangent from the original digg :D
- Nick519, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4pretty right-on list. i see myself in there in many, many places.
- GaffleSnipe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm right there with you.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3vim FTW.
- smhill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Heh...
For the longest time mine where all called 'layout' for the primary file. My only saving grace was that I had an intricate client/project/element file structure. Still a search for "layout" on my computer returned ridiculous results. - BionicAntboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2final_stage3_customerapproved2_converted_flatted3.psd
It's funny because it's true (which also makes it the most tragic on the list). - DarkPrince11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I dont see why some people dislike Dreamweaver..other than the auto-complete feature the site management system is great for switching between projects and managing your work...it helps out a lot for big projects or when you need to refer back to a previous one....
- TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1DreamWeaver's graphical design interface is the #1 easiest way to not only slaughter code embedded in the page, but also put 80 paragraphs, nbsp;s, and blank table cells all through your site, throwing spacing off and making it three times the size it needs to be.
(Photoshop | Illustrator) --> (Vim | TextWranger | SubEthaEdit) - srg13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use Photoshop and Notepad2
Any text editor with syntax highlighting and proper tab indentation will do though. - bryceman111, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Related a little bit:
My dad recently got a used computer free with Windows 98(no SE) with 64 MB of Ram...
We were watching TV and he that new commercial for the Blackjack cellphone comes on (with the hands flipping it, etc.) and he says (while point at the computer) "can you whip that up on there?"
My response-- "of course."
.bryce. - zarathos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Who needs WYSIWYG? TextMate FTW!
- bede, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Text editor every time. I can see what I'm doing then. I'm not even a big fan of syntax highlighting.
- Joshuarr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The stupid ***** beach ball.
I know it's not a very good name, but I'm always stupefied with impatience when I see it. - ackza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say."
LOL! paisley pattern are trippy - stockjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the point for some is that Dreamweaver can be a good tool to visualize layout, even find errors with your layout or pinpoint problems, but if you use the WYSIWYG to completely layout everything, the code generated by Dreamweaver will have a lot of unneccessary junk thrown into the html (extra font tags etc). If you do layout with Dreamweaver, its a good idea to open it in a text editor and clean it up.
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