As some of you may know, May 1st is considered a Reboot day amongst Web designers. It’s an opportunity to apply a makeover to your site and have others comment on it. This marks the sixth annual May 1st Reboot. You can find the original campaign at May1Reboot and a more standards-compliant focused cousin at CSSReboot.
Well, I don’t know if Adobe intentionally decided to join in on all the fun today or it’s just a happy coincidence, but over the weekend Adobe launched a somewhat new site design at Adobe.com. I say, “somewhat new” because at first blush the site seems to be what was Macromedia.com’s existing page template design with a revised navigation and Adobe’s visual design lightly applied through out. (Incidentally, Macromedia.com now does a complete redirect to Adobe.com.) So it’s obvious this is Adobe’s first noble attempt to bring the two companies’ product offerings together online.
Adobe’s new site design was code named “Day Next”. Craig Goodman’s article, “Day Next” comes to the Developer Center, details some of the changes to the site and where to find everything after the move.
It’s interesting to see just what Adobe chose to offer as direct links on the home page’s Products area. However, it’s also rather disheartening to wade through the barrage of products that now pour out from the main products page when you click “See all products”.
What do you think? Do you think the fusion of these two creative software companies is really going to be a good thing for us, the designers?
If you’ve built up a complex set of layer styles on a particular layer and want to quickly jump between them in the Layer Style window, try this little known set of keyboard shortcuts. Command+1 through 0 (Mac) or Control+1 through 0 (Windows) will quickly jump you between main styles in the list: Drop Shadow (1), Inner Shadow (2), …Pattern Overlay (9), and Stroke (0). This a great way to jump around the Layer Style menu without having to reach for the mouse.
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