new company

It’s been a while. But I’m currently occupied as webdeveloper at an agency for communication and interactive media (in het nederlands: communicatieproject en interactieve media).

So go check it out.

Migration to ewoutwinkelman.com

Last week I’ve completed my personal website. With that, I thought of migrating All About The Web to my personal blog. This is going to happen now.

Why? It’s easier and I think better to maintain one blog at a time. Also an advantage to this is that my visitors should only visit one blog.

I’ve got plans for the future with the weblog in terms of tutorials, in-depth articles, best-of-the-web, etc. How long, how frequent and in which form is yet unknown. As always, I’m open for suggestions

This will be the definitive last post on this weblog. From now: Please visit my new website.

New website @ ewoutwinkelman.com

Today I’ve launched my new website at www.ewoutwinkelman.com. The features at launch are:

• Blog (probably All About The Web will be moved too)
• Comments
• Featured/new work
• LightBox for enlargement views
• Fresh new design

I hope to implement new and useful features in the near future. Please drop me a line if you have suggestions for my new website. Thanks!

Photoshop basics and more

For a large group of starting designers, Photoshop can be hard to learn; especially when you get in-depth.
Last months I’ve come across some good tutorials which guide you into the great world of Photoshop and show you some neat techniques.

1. Photoshop basics @ DigitalWeb
2. A great start for modern interfaces @ Pstut
3. How to export to the web @ Tutorial Dog
4. Nice technique for Flickr box-alikes @ Photoshoptutorials
5. Brush techniques to create energy beams @ Luxa
6. How to use 3 different saturation tools @ Tutorial Pulse
7. Intense light streaks (perhaps not that basic) @ Spoongraphics

Another great resource: PSDTuts.
I can’t say that all of these tutorials are really suitable for beginners, but still this is one of the best Photoshop tutorial site I’ve found over the last years! Do yourself a favor and check it out right now!

SEO Reclameland (part 2)

The first part of our SEO campaign is going all well. We targeted the keyword Driehoeksborden.
As for now we’ve managed to improve our listing in the SERP from position 9 on page 1 to position 5 on page 1. For us this is a big difference.

To continue our SEO campaign we’ve started with our next keyword which is Kranten. At this moment we aren’t listed in the top 100 (source) so we’ve got some work to do! Also, the kranten-page on Reclameland differs much from the Driehoeksborden-page. I’ll keep you informed with our results! Wish me luck

SEO Reclameland

These weeks i’m busy doing researching and testing some SEO-techniques for Reclameland. The first term we’re targeting is Driehoeksborden. You can follow the progress (and some in-depth information) on Reclamebureau DRP’s blog (dutch!).

Flex RPC Fault #2032 (ioError)

[RPC Fault faultString="HTTP request error" faultCode="Server.Error.Request" faultDetail="Error: [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032: Stream Error. URL:xxx"]. URL:xxx”]

Yesterday this error raised the first time. Today I figured out what it could be.
It seems this error raises when Flex tries to access two files at the same time through a HttpService. Looks like a SandBox restriction.

More information on error #2032 (ioError) and other occurences can be found in a post by Judah here (seems to give a lot of 404 pages).

Adobe Flex common controls for Photoshop

Today I’ve created some common used Flex controls. Why? Since I create my mockups for websites/ria’s in Photoshop and don’t want to make them directly in Flex.

The controls can be used in a broad range of colors, designs and templates. You can download them (.zip file) from my DeviantART page: http://mysticearth.deviantart.com/art/Adobe-Flex-Controls-72703772

Any suggestions, questions or complaints about this package, feel free to contact me!

Adobe Flex Builder 3 beta 3 released

This week Adobe released their final beta of Flex Builder 3. It’s available for download and can be used as trial for 90 days. This is probably due to the upcoming release.

The features are introduced with a couple of videos at the Flex 3 Wiki (Adobe Labs): http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex_3:Feature_Introductions

Go ahead and download Flex Builder 3 public beta 3 for free.

Christmas Tutorial
It’s almost Christmas, really! PSDTuts posted a nice tutorial on how to create a Holiday e-card in Photoshop. Like always worth checking out!

Christmas wallpaper pack
And for your desktop customization you could use one of the wallpapers featured in Peter Cui Bi De’s Christmas Gift to make it a little more Christmas. Check his cool wallpaper pack out!

P.S Definately check out his entire gallery for more cool wallpapers and a very nice, complete tutorial on how to create travel-like lines and shapes.

Happy holidays!

Weekly Tutorial: Part 9 (Photoshop Tutorials)

It’s time for some slick, handy tutorials (or sites) I’ve found. This time a couple of Photoshop tutorials.

• Psdtuts.com (very great, useful and some professional tutorials. definitely worth to check it out!)
• Abduzeedo.com : Amazing Fire (good tutorial on Photoshop and Illustrator. Abduzeedo still does it )
• Webdesignerwall.com : Photoshop Secret Shortcuts (handy to increase your workflow)
• Pstut.info : Designing a Safety Icon (create a nice, glossy safety icon)

That’s it for now. I hope to post some more Flex tutorials this month, or even make some myself.