Artlife, I love the graphics for stickman bleeding - really great.

Artlife
When we think of just how much software CC produces these days, I think it would be fair to say that many members in here are using all sorts of editors to produce their pages, but will find that a small handful of CC products help them to refine their web development for other aspects of an application. I am of course referring to flash videos, website fonts, colour schemers, web cams and so on.

Personally I wouldn't know what to do if there was no CC HTML Editor in my web "tool box" and I have never even seen Dreamweaver or similar close up so really cannot say much about it as a program... apart from the fact that everything I have ever purchased from CC seems to compare VERY favourably with all the other so-called big industry names. So really, what I want to say is - don't feel guilty about not using JUST CC, but do let us know when you do use it so that we can compare and discuss our results.

At the end of the day, it is important to try to use a fairly standardized language and set of conventions, but ones which will still allow us all as designers to get results which are right for us and right for our users.

Sarah... much appreciated, but as usual, those for friends get put on the back shelf whilst those that pay get pushed forward!!!

Artlife,
I know what you mean. I have CC but am still jumping back to Nvu from time to time. It is hard to let go of the first love.

Thank you, appreciate it

I have to say your screen-name/avatar combo really cracks me up.

I tried Dreamweaver and hated it... I started off many years ago writing the code live online, make a mistake and you couldn't fix it for hours. Then I made the big step up to notepad lol. For a few years I went between HomeSite and CC, and probably gravitated to Frontpage because of stepped up use of Office progs in general. I think my main issue is I simply do not have the time to learn every new thing, and so have to pick and choose what to learn and what to let the prog do for me. In that regard CC progs are useful because they are many specialized programs rather than one big monstrosity.

Well, I'm in the middle of re-doing the web site for my studio. I'm not using CC for the build itself but it does feature a web form and an image gallery courtesy of CC apps (two of my staples, actually). Had a brief roadblock when my new computer wouldn't run my apps and I feared it was a 64 bit thing, but then Scott S. pointed out a dunderhead oversight where I hadn't checked the default screen resolution. Now I'm back in business!

The draft site is nearing launch, right now it's up at:

http://www.spinland.biz/2010

Have some cleaning up, tweaking, alt tag addition, and sundries yet to do on it.

This is one nice site, Spinny!
I particularly like your choice of color schemes, and the way you have managed to make gradients and transitions really work for you.
A minimum of color clashes, which are so common elsewhere on the web.
The gradient-transitions of your menu button colors, into the black background below, are very well made!
The only thing that gives me slight pause, would be the backing-background (if you know what I mean!), consisting of beveled blocks in various earth tones. To me, the "busy-ness" of that background clashes with - and draws attention away from - your very clean and serene-looking main viewing area. That is of course just my particular reaction, which may be representative only for a tiny minority of your visitors!
So, in summary: Congratulations on building a site that is very pleasing to the eye!

Hey Spinner - Great looking site. The only thing I see, that I might change, is the timing of your "Archive Slideshow". Most of the time, I didn't have enough time to read even the short line of text that went with the slide. Just a slightly longer pause would probably be fine.

Your site is nice, I was hoping for higher res images in your gallery though. I don't think the images do justice to the work you do. Not necessarily larger images, but they look as if they are low res and enlarged, giving a very jagged look.

Yep I would have to agree with Artlife here as I was about to post the same thing and see someone beat me to it lol. You need to scale your gallery down to the size of your images as you already know I'm sure. Scaling them up in the gallery size really makes them lose quality quite a bit taking away from the great art that they really are.

I love the site though for sure, it's a very pleasing place to visit