DisplayFusion Pro Standard License

• Only $25 $18.75 per computer, plus additional multi-license discounts ~ On Sale!
• For personal or company use
• Perfect for home users who have 1 computer and only need 1 license
• Perfect for smaller companies who want multiple licenses, but don’t want a Site License
• Fully functional license including all DisplayFusion Pro features
• This is a lifetime license, and is valid for all future versions (3.x, 4.x, 5.x… etc)

DisplayFusion Pro Personal Home License

• Only $35 $26.25 for any number of computers in your house ~ On Sale!
• For personal home users who have more than 1 computer
• Buy 1 license, use DisplayFusion Pro on as many computers as you need
• This license is for personal use only, not for company use
• Fully functional license including all DisplayFusion Pro features
• This is a lifetime license, and is valid for all future versions (3.x, 4.x, 5.x… etc)

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Having a multi-monitor setup is not as simple as attaching a second display to your system. In order to fully realize the potential that having more than one monitor unleashes, you need to be able to fine-tune your setup. And to do that, you need DisplayFusion.

DisplayFusion offers you powerful features like multi-monitor taskbars, titlebar buttons, and hotkeys that are fully customizable! Tired of mousing over to your primary monitor to get to a taskbar? With DisplayFusion you’ll enjoy a taskbar on each monitor, complete with auto-hide, custom sizing and positioning, and more! Plus, with the TitleBar Buttons, you can move and resize your windows across any of your monitors quickly and easily. Too much work? Assign Hotkeys to perform the same actions!

Have you had a collection of super-resolution, super wide images that you’ve just been dying to use as wallpaper? DisplayFusion is here, with the ability to tile, stretch, scale, crop, and position your images with such precision, everyone in your cubicle farm will be jealous!

While we’re on the subject of wallpaper, let’s talk about screensavers. With DisplayFusion, you have the option of running one huge screensaver across all monitors, or a separate screensaver for each one! After you install DisplayFusion, you’ll wonder how you ever got along with multiple displays without it!

Corel is having a massive Back to School sale where you can grab software for up to 70% off. For example, you can get the venerable Corel Paint Shop Pro X3 Ultimate for a mere $19.99. The price starts off at a paltry $24.99, but you can use the coupon “SAVEME20” to take another 20% off and get the price down to $19.99. After you have Paint Shop Pro X3 Ultimate in the cart just use “SAVEME20” to drop the price even more. But, you need to hurry, the sale ends August 19th at Midnight. This is a massive amount of software so get to it.

Corel Paint Shop Pro X# Ultimate includes all the following:

• An updated version of PaintShop Photo® Pro X3, version X3.2, delivers superior performance
• Corel® KPT® Collection – 24 creative plug-in filters for powerful photo effects. $99 value
• Corel® Painter™ Essentials 4 – sketch, paint and transform your photos into digital paintings. $99 value
• WinZip® 14.5 Pro – the world’s #1 compression software. $49 value
• Magic Bullet PhotoLooks 1.1 – realistic photo lighting effects.$199 value

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• An updated version of PaintShop Photo Pro, version X3.2, for superior performance
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• Advanced editing tools – Smart Carver™, Vibrancy, Local Tone Mapping
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Get everything you need to create fantastic photos, amazing photo effects and stunning digital paintings with Corel PaintShop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate—your complete photo-editing software collection. This special value package offers more than $400 worth of creative extras, including Corel® KPT® Collection, 24 plug-in filters that let you quickly create incredible photo effects, and Corel® Painter™ Essentials 4, the digital art studio that lets you sketch, draw and turn your photos into paintings and Magic Bullet PhotoLooks 1.1, realistic photo lighting effects.

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Formatting text, like making a drop cap is very easy. PagePlus understand what it means to make one so you don’t have to get sidetracked with making the frame yourself. But, it does offer a full of array of choices should you wish to fine tune the appearance.

The same is true for adding images. You simply drag the image into place and the text will flow around it. However, you get plenty of options to control the text flow, spacing, rotation of the image and lots of other options.

Plus it handles Microsoft Word documents with ease. And you don’t have to hold down special keys or wait for the planets to align so you can get text to flow across multiple pages. PagePlus is smart enough to know it needs to flow the text so it does it.

I mentioned before it has a similar look and feel to Corel Draw. The difference is, PagePlus can actually handle putting books together. Using the BookPlus feature you combine multiple PagePlus documents into a single file which can then be printed or exported to PDF. I created a 50 page book complete with images and was able to edit, format and put it all together without any glitches. My questions were answered by the well written help file so I didn’t have to resort to a 1,000 page manual or hours of searching and then manual work.

My first project was merely a test run but it went very smoothly. I think PagePlus is a real gem among the desktop publishing apps out there. It has all the features I’m looking for, it’s actually usable out of the box, and I don’t think you’ll find a better app for even twice the price.

on them. I’m champion at that.

But anyway, with the new release of Artisteer 3.0 not only does it allow for the creation of blog themes but you can use it as an actual web page design tool. I had a simple project in mind so I thought I would give Artisteer a try and see how it faired. I wanted to create several static pages that all linked together through a very simple Nav menu just under a banner. Its layout would be very similar to this blog in that it had a header, a nav menu and then the content. The content would be laid out in a table. It sounded pretty simple. And no hissing it as using a table this way. It’s the simplest way.

As far as the design goes, Artisteer worked wonderfully well. I was able to pick a nice design, set the layout, remove the sidebar, customize the banner, set up my menu, and create lots of interlinked pages within just a few minutes. I even created the table on the page and got the layout set. Quite frankly I wish all HTML tools were this quick and easy.

If I was going to stick with just entering some text and a graphic here and there things would have worked out quite nicely. However, I had lots of graphics to add and currently there is no drag and drop operation into Artisteer. This means I had to select each cell, go through the menus to insert a picture and then scroll to find the file. All very doable but extremely slow. So slow in fact that after the structure of the page was made there was no point in continuing with Artisteer. The layout was simple but it didn’t allow for my repetitive actions. Even though Artisteer offers the ability to directly edit the code I really felt this had put the brakes on. Hopefully that gets changed in the future since I think there is a lot of potential in using Artiseer this way. Being able to have that level of freedom and control to create pages is really quite exciting. It’s not quite drag and drop, but you don’t have to enter the code yourself to make something happen.

But once I was out of Artisteer I loaded the completed pages into Expression Web and Rapid PHP 2010 to make my final edits. Unfortunately Rapid PHP doesn’t allow drag and drop of images either so that brought its use to a halt. Into Expression Web I went and the drag and drop worked very well.

However, the code behind the page was an overwhelming jumble of syntax. The sheer volume of definitions was staggering! And even though the page looked good in the browser, when loaded into the editor it was nearly impossible to work with. I couldn’t tell which way was up and spent quite a bit of time just deciphering all the injected Artisteer tags.

I did finally tame the code beast and was soon back on track adding my images and linking files together. With the amount of time I spent sifting through the code I’m not sure I actually saved myself any time. The page looks good, but once you jump out of Artisteer editing your work may be beyond the scope of most casual designers.

I think I have a handle on how Artisteer works its magic so the next time I have a project like this it shouldn’t take nearly as long to start editing. In fact, I’m still editing those same pages and they don’t look nearly as daunting as they did originally. However, I would love to see Artisteer expand the HTML portion of this app. It’s still in the "Preview" stage so they have plenty of time to keep working. They’ve made huge strides and if they can add a few more features like drag and drop and a decent HTML editor within the app itself I think they will have a top notch web design tool for the casual web designer. If nothing else using Artisteer gives you a really nice framework in just mere moments. You can create the layout, select the colors and choose fonts without having to write all the code and stylesheets by hand.

There is a lot to like, but just keep in mind that if you have to edit the code manually you’re going to need to take it slow and easy so you don’t get lost in there.

It has the same layout with the Toolbox, Folder list and Properties boxes. It’s actually pretty easy to jump in and straight creating pages – if you know what you’re doing. Like the previous version this is mainly an editor. It’s not a design tool that will help you color pages, select buttons and be "artistic". It doesn’t come with templates, there is no picture gallery tool or site building wizard. If you need that as your base, Expression Web is just going to frustrate you.

So how is it as an editor? Pretty good actually. You can drag and drop items so it makes building pages quite easy. The code editor is easy to read and use and the split screen view is very handy. You can layer objects, edit your CSS files and insert HTML, ASP and PHP controls. Overall it’s a pretty powerful app.

One thing that Microsoft has been touting is the SEO Reporting tool. Before you get too excited, it’s really not that impressive. It makes sure that you have a unique title, keywords and description for the page and then checks to see that your images have Alt Text associated with them. All good practices, but it’s not really that impressive of an SEO tool.

There are a couple of things that are lacking though. One thing I wish the editor would do is Tag Highlighting. For example, in the the Rapid PHP 2010 tool I have (and you also get this in Notepad++) when you click a tag like DIV for example it will highlight the opening and closing tag so you know have them set up correctly. This is extremely useful especially when you text spans more than one screen worth. For some reason Expression Web doesn’t have this, or at least doesn’t have it turned on by default. I can’t find a way to make the editor function this way. That’s pretty disappointing since it’s standard with other apps. Apps that cost much less (free).

The Reports and Hyperlink functions are quite useful though. You can visually see the layout of your site and how the pages relate to each other and you can get statistics on how many style sheet links you have, how many internal and external links and links to dead pages. A nice tool to have to make sure you aren’t sending people off to La La Land.

I do like that Expression will open the entire site rather than just a single page at a time. It seems very unlikely that you would work on a file in isolation like that. Expression handles that quite a bit better than the others in that respect.

It is interesting to note that a lot of the Expression Web functionality is bundled up in Visual Studio 2010. VS2010 isn’t quite as user friendly, but pretty much everything is there. You can edit, format and see the design much like Expression shows it. That is just more of an observation on how Microsoft is merging their products.

Finally, the SuperPreview mode is actually pretty useful. You take a webpage and then load it up in multiple browsers at the same time. You can view IE8 and FF3 next to each other. Or you can view IE7 and IE8 next to each other. You can see alignment issues, see how the graphics layout, check the spacing and get a good idea of how each browser will look. That is definitely a handy feature for cross browser compatibility.

Overall I like this new version, but is it worth the hefty cost to upgrade? If you’re new to the Expression Suite then yes, this is a good investment. If you’re coming from version 3.0 I’m not really sure there are that many compelling new features. You would have to be a pretty hard core coding fool to get your money’s worth out of it. But check it out for yourself, there is a fully functional 60-Day Trial you can download.

Microsoft Expression Studio

I don’t know if it’s the most practical app I’ve ever come across but since it’s free it can’t hurt. If nothing else you could always download a copy and provide some feedback. I’m going to download my copy and see how it works.

There are also a lot of new backgrounds and designs to choose from. Quite frankly, there is a lot of playing just to see what kind of new designs you can come up. I do like the floating size as well that rescales based on screen resolution.

So far I really like it. It has a lot to offer and you can whip a pretty decent theme rather quickly. They also included a lot more customization for menus and footers. And regardless if you know a tiny bit of PHP you can make your adjustments to those.

I haven’t worked with it enough to really generate anything worthwhile, but I really like what I’ve seen so far.

1. Click to get Corel Paint Shop Pro
2. Click to go from Full to Upgrade – Price should be $29,.99
3. Continue until you get to the cart. You will need to say No to upgrading to a different item
4. Use the coupon BONUSBUCKS20 to get $20.00 off the price.
5. The full price should be $9.99

And there it is. You can get the latest version of Paint Shop Pro, which is a great app by the way, for a ridiculously low price! I’m not sure how long it will all last so jump on it while you can!