Marketing & Customer Service in the Pacific Northwest

brandchannel.com offers up an interesting article about marketing and customer services with an eco-friendly edge in the PacNW...

Apple Safari 3 Public Beta Fixes Flash Drop-menu Issue

Apple has released a Beta version of its Safari browser for both Mac and Windows. While this is news itself, I'm more excited about the following revelation.

Anyone out there who has done website work where the design called for drop-down navigation menus which overlap Adobe flash content will be happy about this announcement. In previous versions of the Safari Mac browser, there was a 'bug' where drop down menus would flicker badly if they overlapped Flash content. This issue even plagues www.adobe.com in Safari 2.x!

After testing both the Mac & Windows versions of Safari 3, Apple appears to finally have fixed this problem!



Check out the Apple - Safari 3 Public Beta

New Google Analytics Facing Problems?

mashable.com: "From Tuesday to Wednesday, Analytics stopped gathering data for almost a full day, before returning sometime on Wednesday afternoon with the data intact..."

I'll be keeping an eye on this. If you are a client of J.Y. Design and experiencing any issues with your Google Analytics account, please get in touch.

Google Analytics launches new reporting interface design

The new UI looks nice. Here are some highlights: It takes advantage of full browser width; it has a customizable dashboard; larger cleaner graphs; and the ability to email and export reports. I'm looking forward to digging deeper into this upgrade.

UPDATE: mashable.com has just posted a very in-depth look at the new UI complete with many screen shots.

Adobe CS3 Official Launch

Here's a round-up of some other interesting coverage and details:

• AppleBlog coverage
• digg.com coverage
• Apple.com special feature
• creativepro.com: What's New in Adobe Creative Suite 3
• CNET coverage

Microsoft releases long-awaited Explorer 7

"Microsoft Corp. released Internet Explorer 7 on Wednesday, the first major upgrade to its Web browser since 2001 with new features aimed at preventing online fraud and improving ease of use...

IE 7 is available immediately to Windows XP users and it will eventually serve as the default browser for Microsoft's much-anticipated Windows Vista operating system, due out to consumers in early 2007."

IE 7 is available for download at www.microsoft.com/ie

Let's hope that support for standards in this final release is close to that of Firefox. Unfortunately for designers/developers this more likely means that we'll be testing for IE 5, 6, and now 7 too - at least until Vista ships and the adoption rate for 7 picks up.