Workshop Schedule

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  • Registration opens at 8:30am

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  • Adobe Sponsored Presentation (9:00-10:00)

  • Redefine the extraordinary in web design and development. Join Adobe for an entertaining hour covering the creation of the full range of digital experiences, including interactive websites, applications, user interfaces, presentations, and mobile device content, with Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Web Premium software.

    Website Prototyping (10:00–11:00)

  • Showcase your website design concepts using the compositing features in Photoshop and Illustrator, and the prototyping tools in Fireworks. You’ll learn to create a presentation-quality mock-up of your website using tools you may already know.

    Introduction to CSS (11:15–12:15)

    With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the current web-compliant standard for formatting pages, you can build effective browser and search engine-friendly sites. You’ll start by learning the foundation concepts of CSS, including how and why you use CSS, and then begin editing a CSS-based layout in Dreamweaver CS4.

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    LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (12:15–1:15)

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  • Dreamweaver CS4 Basics (1:15–2:30)
    

    Using your new knowledge, you’ll begin creating a site with the built-in CSS tools that make page creation in Dreamweaver CS4 so efficient.  You’ll add images, links, navigation and more, as you learn to work with the tools, workspace and panels in Dreamweaver CS4.

    Creative Suite 4 Integration (2:45–3:45)
    

    While discovering additional CSS tools in Dreamweaver CS4, you’ll use Adobe Bridge to incorporate design and video content from Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks and Flash into your site. You’ll also explore the option to export XHTML content from InDesign into your CSS-based layout in Dreamweaver.

    CSS, The Next Level (4:00–5:00)
    

  • Now that you can create and edit your CSS-based site in Dreamweaver CS4, you’ll build on your new skills by previewing some of the web’s coolest current technology trends, including Spry navigation menus, Spry widgets, buttons, rollovers, and more. Finally, with your interactive, cutting-edge site ready to go, you’ll learn to publish your content to the Web as well as mobile devices.

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• Location

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  Minneapolis Convention Center
  1301 Second Avenue South
  Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403
  612.335.6000
  

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• Directions

From the West (I-94)

Take the 4th Street exit from I-94 and proceed to 2nd Avenue South. (Do NOT turn right onto 2nd Avenue North.) Turn right on 2nd Avenue South and go 8 blocks to Convention Center.

From the West (I-394)

Take Downtown exit (12th Street): follow 12th Street South to 2nd Avenue South and turn right. The Convention Center is on your left.

From the East (I-94)

Take the 11th Street exit: follow 11th Street South until you reach 2nd Avenue South, turn left onto 2nd Avenue South and cross 12th Street South. The Convention Center is on your left. The Underground Plaza Parking Ramp is on your right.

From the South (I-35W)

Follow downtown exit signs to the 11th Street exit and follow 11th Street to 2nd Avenue South. Turn left on 2nd Avenue South and go 1 block to Convention Center.

From the North (I-35W)

Take I-35W to Hwy 280. Follow Hwy 280 to I-94 west. Follow I-94 to the 11th Street exit (NOT 11th Avenue exit). Follow 11th Street to 2nd Avenue South. Turn left on 2nd Avenue South and go 1 block to the Convention Center.

From the Airport Main Terminal

Take Hwy. 55 exit from the airport. Follow Hwy. 55 west to Minneapolis. This will become Hwy. 62 west. Follow Hwy. 62 to I-35W north to Minneapolis downtown exits. Then take the 11th Street exit. Follow 11th Street South to 2nd Avenue South. Turn left on 2nd Avenue South and go 1 block to the Convention Center.

Entrances/Exits to Underground Plaza Parking Ramp

Enter either on Second Avenue South, or on 12th Street South. The Plaza Ramp has handicap parking – elevators and a skyway connect the Ramp to the Convention Center, allowing easy access for wheelchairs.

Public Entrances

There are 4 main public entrance rotundas located on Second Avenue S. & Grant Street, labeled "Ballroom Entrance," "Plaza 1," "Plaza 2" and "Plaza 3." Designated handicap entrances (power assisted doors) are adjacent to Plaza 3 (entrance closest to Wesley Church), and the 12th Street Entrance.

Parking:

Parking is easy to find at the conveniently located Minneapolis Convention Center. Right across the street from the MCC is an underground ramp that is connected by a climate-controlled skyway system to the MCC and several downtown accommodations and attractions.