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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  Oregon Convention Center
  777 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
  Portland, Oregon 97232
  503.235.7575
  

• Directions

Driving:

Just eight miles from the Portland International Airport (PDX), the Oregon Convention Center is accessible via Interstate Freeway I-5 north from exit 302A (Rose Quarter) and I-84 west exit 1 (Lloyd Blvd.). It is bound by Holladay Street, Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Lloyd Blvd. and NE First Ave.

Light rail:

A Portland TriMet bus (Line #6) stops on Martin Luther King (MLK) Blvd., directly across the street from the convention center.

Parking:

In addition to the ample street and bus parking in the surrounding area, the Oregon Convention Center provides onsite parking in its clean and secure underground parking garage. 800 spaces are available on the garage's two levels. The maximum daily rate to park is $8.00. Enter the garage via its First Avenue or Lloyd Boulevard entrances.

Bicycles and Motorcycle Parking

The OCC has bike racks both outside all main building entrances from the street as well as bike racks on both levels of the parking garage.