For the first time in my long professional career i can say that my cup do runneth over in the software departments. Well all have go around and around the software/ applications rollercoaster in our carriers. Especially know in the doom days of the error of the “Suite” almost everyone has these, often expensive, bundles of joy for us end users. Most of the time i find myself picking and choosing and trying to develop a upgrade path that fits mine needs, witch almost always seems different than the industry or big software companies marketing departments understanding of my needs ; )
GREY WOLF DESIGN has been developing and evolving a very strong partnership with Microsoft these days with our own CMS system, “Nb” or New bits, and small CMS to Flash, “Sb” or small bits, and looking to exploring more powerful web application development. However, along came Microsoft's newest web design suite Expression Studio, and its current evolution, version 3 is nothing less than stunning. If you have not seen it then you seriously should take a look at it. When you see the stunning power of Blend 3’s Sketch Flow for developing powerful mockups from simple to data driven prototypes ( an dead simple and fast) you will want it. And if you work with back-end developers that work with Microsoft Visual Studio the walls between designer and developer are torn down with asset sharing and integrated work flows.
The Microsoft Expression 3 suite consist of:
Expression Web 3
Expression Blend 3 w/ Sketch Flow
Expression Design 3
Expression encoder.
We had always been an Macromedia shop on the front end, then pulled into the Adobe family with their buy-out of Macromedia. And with the very recent introduction of Adobe Creative Suite 4 – Design Premium into the office, we feel the dark force is so very strong with this evolution of Adobe’s creative software.
The Design Premium suite CS4 consist of:
InDesign cs4
Photoshop extended cs4
illustrator cs4, Flash cs4 Pro
Dreamweaver cs4
Fireworks cs4
Acrobat 9 Pro
Adobe bridge cs4
Adobe Device Central cs4
Version Cue cs4
Over the coming winter months I will post some more post, especially about Expression since I have been getting a lot of question about it.
