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For anyone who makes use of my smilies, you'll be excited to know that I added a few more recently. Most are more generic smiles to fill the gaps in the forums, but there are some others that are a little more unique .

Alan has finished Fireworks Best Practices Macrochat and did a pretty good job explaining the concepts that were to be covered. There were a few hitches such as the occasional forggeting to screen share and for some reason it sounded like when he said "senocular" (which he did once or twice :smile: ) he was saying "sync-ular" but it was good fun and a good number of people showed up and they seemed to have learned a lot. If you missed it, you can replay it via breeze central:
Fireworks Best Practices Macrochat

As most of you probably know I've been working on the new design for the site... or really, the updated design which looks a lot like what you see now, just more generic (a good thing? maybe not but tough :wink:). Most of the ground work is done for the new backend which I re-wrote from scratch (for those friendlier links I mentioned before), but plain laziness is preventing it from being implemented. Once I find some motivation I'll get things moving. Just a heads up.

I'm in the process of updating senocular.com with an updated design (not the new one from the previous post, a re-working of this one) and some changes to the CMS which I've re-written from scratch. One major change, aside from an RSS feed (cheers heard in the background), will be links to areas of the site including detail views of files and more than likely the downloads themselves.

This Flash tip, as with the last one, comes from another post on the forums at ActionScript.org. The question, in a nutshell, "How do you strictly type global variables?" The general consensus is that you can't. But the truth is, you can.

Rarely does learning new things surprise me so much as they have with these last two items I'm about to share. Neither are groundbreaking and chances are, you might have possibly even known them already but sometimes things like these hit me in a way that, well, honestly kind of make me feel dumb since I feel I probably should have already known :wink:. The first item deals with HTML/CSS, the other Flash ActionScript.

senocular.com/forums/.
I had some set up before but I only used them for private messaging/discussions. These are open to all. I don't expect much to come of them, but if something much [i]does[/i] come of them... well then more power to... them. They're there for anyone to dabble. I'll try my best to answer questions about the site etc. when possible though I can't be every where at once.

I think this is around version 7. The last version (6?), or what you see now, has been the longest lasting version of the site by far. Some previous incarnations may have only lasted weeks. The newest version is close to complete and presentable. However, I have already shown it to two people and they didn't like it. Now, I too am starting to think differently about it. So is it worth the make over? Maybe you should let ....

Alan Musselman will be giving a live Breeze Presentation on Fireworks Best Practices. The presentation will cover

• Simple Rollovers and Disjointed Rollovers
• Side by side comparison of slice behaviors and button symbols
• When to/not to use popup menus
• Creating/duplicating a symbol and nesting symbols within a button
• Why/when to use batch processing

It will be held Friday, January 21, 2005, from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EST). For more information see the event details page.

It's been a while since I've posted any Flash tips. I recon it's time that changed and I get back to spreading some of that knowledge that's lofting up there in that big empty space I call a brain. This particular tip comes from a recent post on the ActionScript.org forums.