
A few times clients have asked us, “which is better, YouTube or Vimeo?” Even though I’m not qualified to weigh in on which service is better in terms of the technical quality of its video encoding (though certainly others have), I can declare Vimeo the winner in terms of its reputation and aesthetic. Let me elaborate:
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Smashing Magazine published an article yesterday advocating the use of Adobe Illustrator as the primary tool for designing websites, from wireframe to graphic comp. On a good day, a majority of my time is spent using Adobe Illustrator, so I couldn’t agree more. Of course, Photoshop has its place in my web design workflow (for instance, making sure my sharp-edge vector objects do not end up fuzzy when converted to rasterized graphics), but Illustrator is superior in all the ways mentioned in the article.
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