Dreamweaver Masters Week Schedule
Session Descriptions

Monday: Dreamweaver CS4 Workflow

Lecture:  Customizing Dreamweaver

Ready to trick out your personal version of Dreamweaver? Learn how to uncover hidden toolbar and menu items, load powerful extensions, and create your own Commands and Behaviors to make your version of Dreamweaver fit your personal workflow like a glove!

Hands-On Session:  Workflow Essentials | Template Workflow

Have you tried Templates before but found them lacking? Always wondered what the fuss is about? In this intense hands-on session learn Dreamweaver Template workflow from top to bottom. Learn how to make efficient use of CSS and Creative Suite integration to super-charge your template workflow. Explore how Optional Regions, Repeating Regions, Editable Attributes, and Conditional Regions can take your Templates to a whole new level!

Lecture:  Why Accessibility Matters

For some of us, accessibility isn't just a good idea, it's the law! For the rest of us, find out what makes Accessible websites so valuable not only to those with disabilities, but to multiple user experiences as well. Learn how to develop an accessibility plan for your own site and focus on what really matters.

Hands-On Session: Building and Styling Accessible Tables & Forms

Put your new-found focus on accessibility into practice in your next hands-on session. Learn how to code clean, accessible forms and tables and then use CSS to style them in ways you never expected! 

Tuesday: Focusing on User Experience

Lecture:  Why Experience Matters

Trying to build brand on the web? Wondering why some sites work so well and others don't? Explore why user experience matters so much on the web, and how that can translate into your workflow, from planning to execution! 

Hands-On Session:  Designing Meaningful Navigation

We'll explore coding standards-compliant navigation while focusing on the subtle (and some not-so-subtle) techniques involved when creating navigation that leads users through your sites, rather than presenting obstacles.

Lecture:  Designing for Multiple User Experiences

Are you checking this page out on a computer? Chances are in the very near future you'll be in the minority. The rise of mobile devices and "always-on" web mean that embracing standards and considering multiple user experiences matters when designing websites. Find out why clean, efficient design is so important to today's websites.

Hands-On Session:  Working With Spry

Dreamweaver's Spry integration means that adding powerful AJAX-driven user experiences is easier than ever. Explore working with HTML and XML datasets, building interactive Spry Widgets, and creating robust client-side form validation.

Wednesday: Creative Suite Integration

Lecture: Speeding Up Your Workflow

Adobe continues to improve integration between Dreamweaver and other Creative Suite applications. Find out how Dreamweaver's powerful CS4 integration can build rapid workflows between Flash, Photoshop, Fireworks, and Bridge. Learn about other ways to speed up your workflow as well so that you'll spend more time being creative, and less time creating.

Hands-On Session: Building Site Prototypes in Fireworks

Did you know that Fireworks CS4 allows you to build powerful, multi-page site prototypes that allow you to present interactive prototypes and PDF's to your clients before creating your code? Did you know that Fireworks prototypes allow you to create XHTML elements and  Form controls that will export as full working controls while exporting your layout as standards-compliant XHTML and CSS? Find out how all this works in an intensive hands-on training session.

Lecture: The Future of Creative Suite

Web Premium, Design Premium, Connect Now, Photoshop Express... where is all this going? Find out in an informative lecture on the history and direction of the world's most powerful graphic suite

Hands-On Session:  Creative Suite Integration

Find out how well Dreamweaver CS4 plays with others as you go back and forth between Flash, Photoshop, Bridge and Dreamweaver to learn an integrated approach to building websites!

Thursday: Controlling CSS with Dreamweaver

Lecture:  Under the Hood: What's New in CS4?

The Code Navigator? Related Files? Live View? Find out what's new in Dreamweaver CS4 and look under the hood at features such as javascript extraction and DOM scripting code-hinting that might not be obvious, but will make a big difference in the way you work with Dreamweaver.

Hands-On Session:  Getting the Most Out of CSS Starter Pages

Dreamweaver comes equipped with dozens of well designed, cross-browser compliant CSS starter pages. Learn how to take advantage of this tremendous resource by customizing the CSS, rapidly adding your own content, and learning how to create your own custom starter pages to jump start your page creation. 

Lecture:  Ensuring Cross-Browser Compatibility

Tired of endlessly checking every browser make known to man to see if your layout works? Hate getting the phone calls from clients and co-workers claiming the layout doesn't work on their browser? Us too! Learn how to create efficient cross-browser compliant code and use Dreamweaver to check for browser compliant issues. 

Hands-On Session:  Dreamweaver CSS Intensive

Immerse yourself in Dreamweaver and CSS. From learning how Dreamweaver manages and controls your CSS to planning and executing your own code, this intensive session will have you taking control over your CSS, understanding how to write it efficiently, and use Dreamweaver to make sure your code does what you want it to do. 

Friday: CSS Showcase

Lecture:  CSS Showcase

Listen to a representative from one of the nation's best web design firms as they discuss their procedures for planning and executing the CSS for their sites. Gain valuable insight into what works and what doesn't in high-profile, real-world examples  

Hands-On Session:  Organizing and Deploying Your CSS

Learn how to organize your CSS for large scale deployments, speed up load times, and create site-wide CSS that scales as your company grows. A must for anyone seeking to make their CSS more efficient and manageable.

CSS Jam Session

Want to show off your work? Dreamweaver Masters Week winds down with a relaxed CSS Jam Session, bring your work to share, discuss your current CSS-related issues, and explore the work of others in your industry. A great way to learn how others are working with their CSS.