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Welcome to the Website Design Bureau website. This website is for WDB members and public.
Website Design Bureau promotes best practices within the design and development sectors as well as advancing our members through information, client relation issues and awarding achievements.
Brief History
Originally conceptualised in the beautiful mother city, Cape Town, South Africa, the WDB has over the last few years moved internationally as the niche market of design is so easily connected via the world wide web.
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Brief on the Website Design Bureau awards
Nominations:
Nominations are only open to WDB members as services offered must comply with WDB Best Practices.Website of the month
The best website is marked on a range of design and development skills from branding integration to conplex online systemsGD of the month
Graphic design awards are given under strict criteria. Limitations to online loading times, colour effects and relation to target marketsScript of the month
The Script of the month is given more freedom where it may either be highly advanced or highly anticipated.Monthly awards
The amount of submissions is great enough to display and award top works within a reletively short space of timeAward Accreditations
Gold Award
The Gold Award represents the highest achievement within the sector. The sector name is displayed below the award brand.Read more...
Silver Award
Some months may have more than one outstanding design or development in need of appraisal. In this case a silver award is provided to the runner up.Read more...Award brandings
All award brandings are sent to recipients along with a link to an accreditation listing for their particular product/service including details to verify the award. Awards with no link to this unique accreditation are not considered valid to the public.
The public is asked to please inform the Website Design Bureau of any suspicious award branding. - Affiliates
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Software of the month
Master Collection Adobe Creative Suite 5
What is the Adobe Creative Suite?
Essentially the adobe creative suite is a set of applications made by Adobe Systems including graphic design, video editing and web development. The set includes applications such as Photoshop, Acrobat and InDesign which are based on technologies such as PDF, Flash and Postscript. Adobe Creative suit 5 (CS5) is the latest software set released at the end of April 2010 which affords users additional creative opportunities with comprehensive design tools for designing and developing across media guaranteeing optimized stunning high impact digital experiences virtually anywhere.
Adobe has the knack of maintaining their 'cutting edge' approach to our rapidly changing technologies and CS5 not only presents a remarkable collection of 'must have' multi-media guaranteeing software productivity within a box, CS5 promises one of the most noteworthy leaps in Adobes history. 'Tell your story' with the Master Collection Adobe Creative Suit 5...
Featured Highlights include:
- Use a magic creative tool set allowing design, print, web, interactive, video, audio and mobile media in one comprehensive offer.
- Industry standard image editing.
- Vector Graphics for any media.
- Professional page layouts for print, web and mobile units.
- Tools for the creation of rich media content and applications.
- Industry leading web authoring.
- Create extraordinary motion graphics and animations.
- Non-linear video editing.
- Perfection with audio creation and editing tasks.
- Integration with Adobe CS Live online.
Just a few of the Collection Set Products...
- Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended – Bring 3D to 2D artwork directly and easily with on-ramp. The new tool set enables improved precision and freedom with your images and the faster performance on 64-bit systems will definitely boost your productivity with time saving additions.
- Adobe Illustrator CS5 – With a new vital vector tool the possibilities for painting and drawing is taken to new levels allowing for greater perspective, design flair and fluidity of movement from one product to another.
- Adobe InDesign CS5 – Cutting edge tools and enhancements for productivity makes page layout a breeze with faster creation, editing and publishing of documents.
- Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro – Has added software builds to provide business and creative professional enhanced security features and top-end print production support.
- Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 – With this incredible design tool you can transform Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks artwork into an expressive interface with interactive content with no code writing.
