Adobe has released two new web tools as beta releases. Adobe CSS Advisor is a new web-based community site to easily identify and resolve browser compatibility issues. Web designers and developers can contribute their own issues, comment on existing issues, or become an editor to participate in driving the site's future. The site is accessible at: http://www.adobe.com/go/cssadvisor.

Also introduced is a beta release of Adobe Spry framework for Ajax, a designer-focused solution for adding the interactive power of Ajax when developing rich, dynamic web-sites. Adobe Spry framework for Ajax is available at: http://labs.adobe.com.

The software can be downloaded at: http://labs.adobe.com, in the early hours Pacific Standard Time on December 15.

More at:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200612/121406Photoshop.html

Co-Author is an application that enables your clients to update pages that has been prepared to work with Co-Author. You can find more information here.

• The Form Tutorial is a basic (PDF) tutorial accompanied by a short video instruction.
• The Organize Your CSS is a tutorial about the importance of using CSS in an organized and contextual way.

I have created a page where you can scramble the email addresses you will be using with “mailto” links. By scrambling the addresses you can greatly improve you chances and avoid being "picked up" by spam bots.

The "Adobe GoLive CS Tips and Tricks" book has been released. It's written by Lynn Grillo and Adam Pratt at Adobe and contains 200 of their best tips and tricks. Both the Mac and Win platforms are covered.

The book also contains information and tips about third party actions, hidden keyboard shortcuts, object palette descriptions and links to GoLive resources on the web (this humble site is actually mentioned!)

The price is USD14.99, money well spent!

ISBN 0-321-27877-1

17 JavaScript tutorials have been posted (see link at the tutorial page). They are basic tutorials and no previous programming experience is required.

A new video tutorial is also available, "Site maps - why and how". This tutorial also contains info on how to avoid having pages indexed (using a robots.txt file).

This patch includes improvements on a large number of areas, while the previous 7.0.1 update only targeted ftp problems.

You can download the full documentation of the patch here.

The video download is ~9MB.

Co-Author is a new feature in GoLive CS, it enables you to build sites that can be updated by your client. The only problem was that there weren't any good information on how to use it, until now!

Lynn Grillo at Adobe has just released a video tutorial which explains Co-Author in a much better way. Due to a file size restriction at the Adobe Studio the file has been divided into seven segments that you can download here.

Lynn's Tutorial is a must if you are going to use Co-Author!

The Ahgren action download page now contains more information about Mac specific problems and tips on where to install your actions.

I just uploaded a new basic CSS and links tutorial that shows you how to set up an external style sheet and style your links. Enjoy! You can both view and download the movie here.

[edit] Part II of this tutorial is now also available! [/edit]

Lynn Grillo's famous Co-Author tutorial is now available for download here at GoLiveCentral.com tutorial page. It was divided into 7 segments due to the file size limitation at Adobe Studio, but here you get them all in one single .zip file. Thanks Lynn!