gritto

you may also want to try out http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ love that website, but i'll give yours a shot

before this year, which i'm in CG2 now, i tried learning flash through tuts similar to those, and i could never get it, but i've been learning it for the last 3 class periods,and i've already gotten all the basics and learned far more than i did in the 6 months i tried with tuts, i guess i'm just a hands on kind of guy, but maybe its flash thats difficult to learn with tuts, i dont know, but after getting the basics those tuts are nice

i've heard a lot about that, but i've never gotten around to actually doing it, but then again all my grahpics are made to be large, such as desktops and banners, but is it able to keep the same res. of say a 1600x1200 document? but compress it optimaly?

it really depends what your site is about, if its for content, obviosuly you dont want strobe lights all around the website to distract you, but if you're a graphic design company, you want images around your site, to show off what you are capable of, given that you arrange it nicely and have it well put together so its not just a collage of work, but simplicity and intricacy combined would make a website just perfect.

firefox is crazy good, i love it to death, and its just....faster in every aspect of it than IE is

if you want to make just human models for the most part and import it into any 3d modeling program, i'd go with Poser 5, its stunningly realistic (for graphics that is) and its very very flexible

if you dont want anything fancy, you can always use windows movie maker, its pretty basic, but its pretty simple to work with, i've made pretty good music videos out of it, mostly by putting clips together, and timing it, not many special effects.

i'm pretty sure you can use the splice tool before you import it into imageready, if i'm thinking of the correct thing, if i'm thinking that the splice tool is that kind of blue box that you can make, then yea, i'm pretty sure you can do it in photoshop beforehand.

i think for the most part, softwares that claim can cool probably limit how much CPU usage will actually be utilized, so it doesn't get to 100% and therefore doesn't heat up too much, but thats just what i think, not fact

photoshop is probably one of the better ones, and after you learn it, learning other similar programs becomes easier, because the layouts are all similar, example: illustrator, pretty much has the same layout as photoshop

for the most part, i hear that the average salary is very unstable in this field of work, but yea 30-70k sounds about the average range, but its not stable at all from what i hear.

and compare it to other hosts that you may have had