Dropdown menus, or popup menus, can be very useful to your visitors if used carefully. When a visitor enters a website, he visually scans the page for useful informations. Therefore if you are “hiding” important links in your dropdown menus, be sure that the visitor will be able to navigate without them.he

I tend to use dropdown (listboxes) in web applications but not in standard, public web pages. When people use an application on a regular basic, they can afford to learn how to use them efficiently.

I made the following video tutorial so you can learn how to create dropdown menus using Adobe Fireworks. The link open in a new window as using YouTube.com produced a video too fuzy to watch here.

Watch Fireworks video tutorial here

Please bear with me as this is my first video tutorial. I think the speed is kind of fast but the video file is almost 5 Mo so I didn’t want it to last longer.

Let me know what you think!

If you’ve ever got your content stolen, you know it kinda sucks. Not only content but also images. Now I am not making any references to a previous post about a website who stole some of my content cause I don’t care that much about this incident.

Anyway I know I’ve probably stolen a few stock images myself at some point but I now use free image banks.

What Can You Do If Your Content Is Stolen?

As a webmaster, blogger, designer or whatever, if your content is stolen, you can always file a DCMA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act).

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When there are hundreds or thousands of websites that compete with yours, what makes your website stand out from the crowd? It’s the image you give, it’s the way people recognize your website… it’s branding.

Drop the stock image you’ve got at the top of your website and get a custom-designed header. Get your own logo, give your website its own look and feel.

Adding A Favicon.ico

Part of getting your image out there is by adding a favicon.ico to your website. The favicon.ico is the icon that’s being displayed in your browser’s address bar:

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