Myjive Goes to Middle School

Posted March 23rd, 2009 by Jimmy Coburn

In November, Myjive had the chance to visit Lancaster South Middle School. Mrs. Peters, teacher of the technology and art class, invited us to give a presentation for their “Career Day.” Her goal was to show her students that you can have a career in art and to show how far you can go in Adobe Photoshop.

Our Creative Director, Ron Edelen, spoke in conjunction with Jessica Mushik (Classic Design Kitchen and Bath). Jessica went over some of the details of schooling and her trade. Ron gave a short presentation on some of the processes we use, different mediums for which we design, and showed our promotional reel. Then we opened it up to the kids for some questions, which was heavily dominated by questions about the gaming industry.

We later received thank you cards from the classes that we attended. They were created by Mrs. Peters’ students in Photoshop and were greatly appreciated.

Dreamweaver FTP Frustrations

Posted August 20th, 2008 by Albert Banks

Here at Myjive we utilize and for the most part enjoy Adobe’s Creative Suite. We have used the various versions for years. In fact, I originally started with Dreamweaver 3 back in the day.

Dreamweaver is great for coding, visualization and design previews. But what continues to frustrate us is the FTP functionality of the program. We are currently using CS3, but this goes for past versions as well.

We are often plagued by “timeouts” and “unable to connect” errors. It doesn’t matter the location, IP or operating system of the server we’re connecting to. I’ve even had problems setting file permissions. We’ve tried all the tips, increasing the timeout to 40+ seconds, using Passive FTP, etc. But the program continues to have issues.

At some points we are forced to use Filezilla or Fetch – and they have no problems. Each new version of Dreamweaver we keep hoping Adobe will make the effort to improve the FTP functionality. Maybe next time… CS4 anyone?