DREAMWEAVER CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

• Learn everything you need to know about building compelling websites using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4! Whether you’re totally new to building websites, or migrating from older technologies, this fast-paced one-day seminar brings the entire workflow together—from design and prototyping through development and testing—using easy-to-understand examples from a designer’s point of view. Most importantly, you’ll learn the key to cool, functional, and flexible Web layouts: CSS—how it works, and how you can use it to your advantage.

The Web Design and Developer Conference brings the entire workflow together — from design and prototyping through development and testing. Whether you’re targeting the desktop, web browsers, or mobile devices, you need to deliver your solutions quickly and efficiently. With sessions covering applications like Flash, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Photoshop, and strategies on the use of CSS, AJAX, XML, and AIR, the WDDC brings the world of design and development together.

THE ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE CONFERENCE

The Creative Suite Conference is the premiere event for designers using Adobe Creative Suite. World-renowned experts will deliver in-depth sessions covering print-based, web, and mobile workflows, as well as XML and cross-media solutions. Whether you’re looking to create reliable PDF documents or deliver interactive Flash or AJAX enabled websites, this is the place to be.

What is Adobe Dreamweaver?

At first glance, Dreamweaver seems like an incredibly complex program, but on closer inspection, it begins to make a lot of sense. That's because Dreamweaver takes care of just about every aspect of the process, from planning a website to designing it and publishing it to the Internet. If you had to make a comparison with a program such as InDesign, you'd have to give InDesign storyboards for planning your entire project, and then you'd need to add a printing press, to boot.

Let me explain. One of the most incredible aspects of the World Wide Web is how quickly you can distribute information. The Web is a medium that offers the capability to publish information so quickly - even in real time - to anywhere in the world. This can happen because the information is electronic. Publishing information on the Web is as simple as copying a file from your computer to another computer (a server or "host"). Dreamweaver possesses the tools to perform all the steps involved in this process. There are site-layout tools to help you plan your website, a full range of web page layout tools, and a complete set of tools to upload your site to a server.

Much like Flash, Dreamweaver lives a double life. As a design tool, it allows you to lay out and design pages for your website. On the other hand, Dreamweaver is an extremely powerful web development tool that allows developers to write scripts and code. Even more important, however, Dreamweaver embraces open standards like Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Dynamic HTML (xHTML), and a new Spry Framework that allows increased website interactivity with little upfront work. Dreamweaver also features an impressive browser check feature so you can be sure that your site will appear correctly on any web browser. And Dreamweaver is linked to Adobe's new CSS Advisor website, so even if you aren't familiar with some of the latest web standards, you can quickly learn what you need.