Hey ya’ll photoshop-/color-/typo-addicted designers out there! Have you just finished that brand new awesome web design and just shipped it off to the web agency that will convert it into a website? Are you stoked on how awesome your design will look in a browser when you press the big green go-live button? (I’ve always wanted one of those buttons) Have you built up your customer’s expectations through the roof and said something like “Huell yeah! This will be the most awesome website of the entire Universe!!!”?

Do you want to know how the web developer will grade your work and how you can improve the end-result of the entire project and cut costs? Read on.

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I’ve been using Coda as my main web development tool the last few months and I must say that it’s a great development tool that makes me work more efficient. It’s easy to use, you can easily search through all files in a big project and you can publish all your changes to the server with just a click or two. When I need to debug server-side code I just swap to Komodo.

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This is the last part in this short serie of two where we use real world examples to show you how you can create and use your own custom event classes to write customizable and reusable code that you can use in your ActionScript 3.0 projects from time to time.

In this second part we’ll take part one a step further and write classes to load images using the XML-file we loaded in part one.

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If you get the hang of using your own custom events in ActionScript 3.0 you can streamline your development and get more control of your code. This is the first part in a serie of two where we’re going to show you how you can create and use your own custom events.

In this first part we’re going to use a real-world example and use a custom event-class to load XML more smoothly. We’ll also go through how you create a document class and how you link it to your flash document.

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As many of you know, IE6 is an outdated browser that interprets websites in mysterious ways. It more or less forces us developers to add redundant code to our websites so IE6-users won’t lack user-experience. IE6 is also less secure than modern browsers and if you still use it as your main browser we strongly recommend you to update as soon as possible (see list of more suitable browsers below). Unfortunately there are still many people out there who use IE6 which in most cases mean that we need to test our websites in that browser. This is where IETester come in handy.

“IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.”

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