Workshop Schedule

• • 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 (11:00–11:45)

    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.

  • Technology Sponsored Presentation- Gridiron Software (11:45-12:15)

    Get a first-hand look at GridIron Software’s award-winning Flow, a revolutionary new approach to workflow management for creative professionals.

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    LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (12:15–1:00)

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• • Dreamweaver CS4 Basics (1:30–2:45)
    

    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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  South San Francisco Conference Center
  255 South Airport Boulevard
  South San Francisco, CA  94080
  

• Directions

From the South (San Jose)

Take Highway 101 north to the South Airport Boulevard exit #424 (which is two miles north of the San Francisco International Airport). At the first stop light, drive straight across the intersection and directly into the Holiday Inn parking lot. The South San Francisco Conference Center is on the left.

From the North (San Francisco)

Take Highway 101 South to the South Airport Boulevard exit #424 in South San Francisco. Stay to the right and turn east under the freeway overpass. Make a right, at the Hungry Hunter Restaurant, onto South Airport Boulevard. The South San Francisco Conference Center is located on the left between the Good Nite Inn and the Holiday Inn.

From Marin County, 19th Avenue, Daly City

Take the Golden Gate Bridge to 19th Avenue and continue on to Highway 280 South. From Highway 280, take Highway 380 East to Highway 101 North (San Francisco). From Highway 101 North exit at South Airport Boulevard. At the first stop light, drive straight across the intersection into the Holiday Inn parking lot. The South San Francisco Conference Center is located on the left. Note: There is a South Airport Boulevard exit off Highway 380. Do not take this exit. Please take the South Airport Boulevard exit off of Highway 101 North.

Public Transportation to South San Francisco Conference Center

BART

(650) 992-2278 Shuttle service is provided from the local BART station Monday - Friday (except certain holidays) in the mornings and afternoons. For schedules, please see http://www.commute.org/shuttle_utah_bart.htm

Alternatively, exit BART, in San Francisco, at the Montgomery Street Station at Second and Market. Walk one block south to the Transbay Terminal located at First and Mission. Take the 292 SamTrans Bus which runs every 30 minutes and will take approximately 45 minutes of bus travel time to reach the South San Francisco Conference Center. Exit the 292 SamTrans Bus at the Shell Gas Station directly across the street from the Conference Center. The cross street is Mitchell Avenue which is located to the north.

CalTrain

(800) 660-4287 Shuttle service is provided from the local CalTrain station Monday - Friday (except certain holidays) in the mornings and afternoons. For schedules, please see http://www.commute.org/shuttle_utah_cal.htm

Alternatively, CalTrain stops at the South San Francisco Depot at Airport Boulevard and Grand Avenue. Exit train and walk west on Grand Avenue overpass about 2 blocks to Airport Boulevard, cross the street and take the 292 SamTrans Bus southbound. Exit the 292 SamTrans Bus at the Shell Gas Station directly across the street from the Conference Center. The cross street is Mitchell Avenue which is located to the north.

SamTrans

(800) 660-4287 See above "alternative" directions under "BART" when taking the 292 SamTrans Bus from the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco. From the south, board 292 SamTrans Bus at the Hillsdale Mall on Hillsdale Boulevard or board at the San Francisco International Airport. Exit bus at the Holiday Inn in South San Francisco. The Conference Center is next door on the left. Please contact SamTrans, if you need additional scheduling/route information regarding the 292 SamTrans Bus.

Complimentary Parking at South San Francisco Conference Center

The South San Francisco Conference Center has an agreement to share parking with both neighboring hotels – the Holiday Inn to the south and the Good Nite Inn to the north. Additional parking is available diagonally across the street in the lot located between the Travelodge and the Best Western Grosvernor Hotel.