Thomas Penberthy

Review: SiteAssist Professional 1.0

Rating: 80 SiteAssist Professional 1.0 ($199; upgrade $99) is the latest update from WebAssist. If your goal is to quickly frame out an elegantly coded (if conservatively styled) Web site, SiteAssist Professional is worthy of consideration.

Review: Adobe Contribute 4

The new version of the Web content updater jumps on the blog bandwagon but leaves its old friends behind.

Review: SiteAssist 3.0

Whether you're not a coding pro or are just pressed for time, this Dreamweaver extension wants to help. Is it worth the money? And how does it compare to Contribute?

Successful Branding with Brochures

A good brochure is a balancing act of effective communication and appropriate design. To deliver, you need a shrewd understanding of your client and the target audience. Here are the three steps that will get you there, plus examples of five brochures that do the job right.

Contribute 2: Macromedia Gives Web Content Creators Equal and Easy Access

Macromedia revs its popular Web updating tool that gives editorial contributors the ability to easily access and change site content without having to know HTML or complicated authoring applications. Contribute 2 also adds Mac OS X support.

Macromedia Contribute: The Web Was Never So Easy to Change

The just-announced Macromedia Contribute promises to lighten the workloads of Web developers while allowing even non-technical computer users to update Web content at their leisure. Here's a first look at a product that may change in-house Web development.

Macromedia MX: An "Office" Suite for the Web?

Macromedia recently announced the Macromedia MX product family, which encompasses all the major tools in its belt: Flash, Dreamweaver, FreeHand, Fireworks, and Cold Fusion. The MX moniker across the product line symbolizes Macromedia's aim toward creating a complete family of tool, server, and client technologies.

Flash MX: Enabling the Rich Internet

Macromedia's new vision of Flash offers video and audio integration, a polished and streamlined interface, and enhanced graphic tools.

Wacom Cintiq: Drawing on Graphic Experience

The Cintiq is not Wacom's first combination tablet/LCD device, but with a large, bright screen, natural-feeling drawing surface, and innovative stand, the $1,899 Cintiq is the first one good enough to make you consider skipping a mortgage payment to buy one.

Macworld NY: What Did It Mean?

With this year's New York event, Apple further buttresses the hardware and software foundation that will help it grow, but it may still be too early for the creative professional to migrate to OS X.

The Ceiva Digital Picture Frame: One Technophobe's Journey

The Ceiva digital picture frame is essentially a 5 x 7 inch LCD display encased in a subtle and stately black matted wooden frame.

For Design, It Was Standing Room Only

Taking a last stroll around Boston last Friday (the last day of Seybold Seminars Boston 2001), I was nearly flattened by a teenaged skateboarder on Newbury Street. After the near miss, he deftly diffused my building ire with a smile, a tip of his backwards Red Sox hat, and a chipper "Terribly sorry!" before zipping off down the sidewalk.

Iomega Zip 250 USB

At $179, the Zip 250 USB is an inexpensive and widely supported solution for keeping your files mobile. That the Zip is the most prevalent solution for removable storage is what keeps it a viable option.