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Quark’s FREE Flash eSeminar on August 24th: How To Make Your Web Site Live And Publish Updates

Quark’s ongoing series of free online seminars continues on August 24th with “How To Make Your Web Site Live And Publish Updates”. Here’s their description — and remember that you can also accomplish these feats in QuarkXPress 7, with Quark’s optional Interactive Designer XTension: ———————— Hopefully our Flash eSeminar series has enabled you to significantly [...]

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IT Enquirer 28-page Report Compares QuarkXPress 8 with InDesign CS5

The IT Enquirer, a cross-media publishing industry website, has released the results of a new, free, in-depth report comparing Web and interactive capabilities in QuarkXPress 8 and InDesign CS5. The report examines the different approaches taken by both companies to interactive and Web design and provides a detailed comparison of both products, rating them on [...]

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3M Visual Attention Service Determines Impact of Design

3M Visual Attention Service (VAS) is an online service that allows designers and advertisers to analyze web and print designs for maximum impact. We all know that we only have a few seconds to grab a reader’s attention, but just how is that accomplished? VAS attempts to refine that process by analyzing everything from color [...]

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Examples of Interactive Content from QuarkXPress

Quark’s Matthias Guenther pointed out two websites that contain interactive content created in QuarkXPress and exported in .swf format. The first is a website for Im’act, a corporate branding company, at www.imact.eu/. The designer is Olivier Powis from Belgium, who has received Quark’s “QuarkXPress Magician” award. (See www.flash8magic.com/us/magic_showcase.html for more info on the competition). The [...]

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