NEW YORK

4/18/12

Seminar Schedule

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  REGISTRATION OPENS AT  (9:00 am)

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• Website Prototyping (9:30–10:15)

• Develop and perfect your website design concepts using Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks. You’ll learn how to create a presentation-quality mock-up of your website quickly and easily using tools you may already know without writing a line of code.

• Dreamweaver Basics (10:15–11:30)

• You’ll begin creating a site with the built-in tools that make page creation in Dreamweaver CS5.5 so easy and efficient. As you learn to work with the tools, workspace and panels in Dreamweaver CS5.5, you’ll add images, links, navigation and more to your web pages with point-and-click simplicity.

  BREAK (11:30 - 11:45)
  

  What's New in Dreamweaver CS5.5 (11:45–12:15)

  Check out the new features and capabilities offered by CS5.5. See how Dreamweaver continues to stay at the forefront of HTML editors. Learn how to work faster and smarter inside Dreamweaver and even connect into systems like WordPress and Joomla.

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    LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (12:15–1:15)

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  CSS Basics (1:15–1:45)

  Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the web standard for formatting pages and building effective browser and search engine-friendly sites. You'll learn the foundation concepts of how and why to use CSS in a straightforward and easy-to-understand manner. By the end of this session, you'll be editing and formatting your CSS-based layouts like a pro.

  Intro to Media Queries for Mobile Web Support  (1:45–2:15)

  Media queries is a new feature of Dreamweaver that allows you support a variety of web and mobile devices. Learn how to build web pages that automatically support cell phones and mobile devices.

  CSS – The Next Level (2:15–2:45)

  Now that you can create and edit your CSS-based site in Dreamweaver CS5.5, you’ll build on your new skills by previewing some of the web’s coolest new technology trends and techniques coming in HTML5 and CSS3.

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  Adding Rich Media to your Website  (3:00–3:45)

  We'll explore how Dreamweaver allows you to add rich media files directly to our web pages, such as Flash (.swf) and Flash video (.flv). But Dreamweaver doesn't stop there, rich media also includes a whole new crop of standards-based animation and video file formats supported driectly by HTML5 and CSS3. Learn how Dreamweaver helps to manage these new media elements and how web browsers support them.

  Introduction to Spry and Dynamic Content  (3:45-4:30)

  Have you heard the term 'Web 2.0'? It combines HTML and CSS with JavaScript to produce amazing interactive capabilities for your site. Adobe created the Spry framework to make this these techniques easy as point and click to create and implement. Learn how to building more interactive experiences for your customers and visitors...without having to write a line of JavaScript code at all! We'll also look at our Spry pages on the iPhone and Android simulators to show our interactive experiences running on mobile devices.

  Ask your questions  (4:30 - 4:45)

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  • Location

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  St. John's University, Manhattan campus

  Saval Auditorium at St. John's University

  101 Murray St.
  New York, NY 10007
  The Saval Auditorium is a contemporary auditorium located in lower Manhattan. It is on the second floor and very easy to find. Within walking distance, you will find a variety of places you can go to for lunch. You will need to register prior to the event in order to gain access.

  Travel information

  Directions to St. John's University Manhattan Campus
  101 Murray Street, New York, NY 10007; (212) 815-9232
  Located in New York City's Financial District, the Manhattan campus is easily accessible by mass transit. If you are traveling by car, the campus's location on the West Side Highway makes it easy to reach whether you are driving from upstate, the city's other boroughs, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania or any of the area's major airports. The campus is located between Greenwich Street and West Street on Murray Street.

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  From Western Upstate New York:
  New York State Thruway to Route 81 south, to Route 17 East, to New York State Thruway at Harriman, New York. Proceed to Palisades Parkway, to George Washington Bridge, to Henry Hudson Parkway, which becomes the West Side Highway South. Proceed past Canal Street, past Borough of Manhattan Community College, and turn left on Murray Street.
  
  From Eastern Upstate New York:
  Take the Major Deegan Expressway (Route 87) to the Triborough Bridge, cross the bridge to Manhattan and onto the FDR Drive South. Exit at 23rd Street. Proceed west on 23rd Street across town to the West Side Highway (West Street). Turn left and go past Canal Street, past the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and turn left on Murray Street.
  
  From New Jersey/Pennsylvania:
  Proceed through the Holland Tunnel to Canal Street; go past Hudson Street and turn right on Varick Street, which feeds into West Broadway. Stay on West Broadway to Murray Street, turn right on Murray Street, and proceed two blocks to the campus.
  
  From Long Island:
  Take the Long Island Expressway to the Midtown Tunnel. Proceed west to the West Side Highway (West Street). Make a left turn and go past Canal Street, past the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and turn left on Murray Street.
  
  * Pay parking is available at Park Right Corp. at the corner of West Street and Murray Street, near the Embassy Suites.
  
  BY SUBWAY:
  Subway Stops Near St. John's Manhattan Campus:
  
  Train Number Stop
  1,2,3 & 9 %uFFFD Broadway/7th Avenue Line Chambers Street (2 blocks from Murray St.)
  A, C, & E %uFFFD 8th Avenue Line Chambers Street (2 blocks from Murray St.)
  N & R Line City Hall
  4, 5, & 6 %uFFFD Lexington Avenue Brooklyn Bridge
  
  The campus is also convenient to buses and New Jersey ferries (NY Waterways goes from Hoboken to the World Financial Center.)