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Better Design and Development Part 2.

By Chad "Cota" Workman | Published 03/26/2007 | Best Practices | Rating:
Chad "Cota" Workman

http://www.chadworkman.com & http://www.plaguestudio.com

Skills include: Photoshop, Flash, ASP, PHP, MS SQL, MySQL, VB, C/C+

Developer and Designer

 

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Re-Introduction
In this series of articles I will attempt to guide you, the readers, to better design and development techniques. These are by no means strict guidelines, nor are they industry standards. These are simply the lessons I have learned in Flash design and development over the past few years. Tutorials are great, but also serve as a crutch for people to avoid learning the important rules of their profession. I cant think of anything better than sharing lessons I have learned while working with clients and other web studios.

For those wondering what my qualifications are... I started as a desktop systems developer using C and Visual Basic in conjunction with MS SQL Servers. I made the jump to web design using HTML and CSS. Which brought me to Javascript and ASP. From there I got into Flash development which also took me to design using Photoshop. In the past years I've worked with clients like Warner Bros, Atlantic Records, and ego7.


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Article Series
This article is part 2 of a 2 part series. Other articles in this series are shown below:
  1. Better Design and Development Part 1
  2. Better Design and Development Part 2.
Comments
  • Comment #1 (Posted by Stu - ice_battenburg at hotmail.com)
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    Really rate these better design and development articles, sum up a lot of the lessons i've learnt in my first three months as a Flash Developer. Well worth the read, and confirms alot of my suspicions about so called great flash developers.

    Much appreciated Chad.
     
  • Comment #2 (Posted by Bhavik Parmar - bhavikparmar at rediffmail)
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    hi chad,
    I m bhavik from India, working in this industry since 2 years
    i read your both articles part1&2. They are really motivating for new web developers like me. Ineed help from people like
    I still get stuck in actionscripting while doing some project which is very frustrating for me. I just totally get blank & can't write my own script & i really want to know the solution of this problem, & specially not being a designer doesnt have the knowledge of color sense, composition & balancing. Donno what to do. To be in this industry i just dont want to do only scripting but also want to design. If you get any tips, sir please mail me at bhavikparmar@rediffmail.com
    I would be thankfull to recieve your mail
    Thanks for your great articles which you have written. I seriously need such tips & tricks.

    Thanks
    Bhavik Parmar



     
  • Comment #3 (Posted by dia - sdesigns at hotmail.fr)
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    hi, thanks a lot for the advices!!!now i feel like i was blind :) very helpful for noobs like me ;)
    dia,just starting coding
     
  • Comment #4 (Posted by Ravinder Kumar - ravinder_tawni at rediffmail.com)
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    Hey,
    it is nice. This article is very helpfull for my type of developer who newly joined industry. Thanks. Be cont........

     
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