Friday, July 23, 2004

Seattle Design Conference - DAY 3, morning

ECOMMERCE [nobody] ***
-good introduction to low budget ecommerce

APPLESCRIPT [nobody] **
-guy showed how he uses applescript to create Quark layouts for those fancy weather reports that you see in the newspaper

FLASH MX TIPS [vd] *-nothing new here. disappointing beginner level

MACROMEDIA CENTRAL [vd] ****
-good introduction to Macromedia Central
-not catching on yet - but a pretty good idea - keep an eye on it

FLASH ACCESSIBILITY [vi, ia, frontend] **
-bottom line is that Flash doesn't live up to its accessibility claims
-lots of bad gotchas getting accessibility to work in Flash
-use Flash only for media demonstrations
-OR have two versions of the site (Flash & html) that both use one source of data

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