Oxford Dreamweaver User Group

User Group on Adobe site

Adobe have set up a site for all their User Groups - you can log in with an Adobe ID (free), and add ideas, job posts, events etc, as you like. It’s brand new, so still in testing, but it’s worth checking out if you’re looking for User Groups in other areas too.

http://groups.adobe.com/groups/6c54b074f9/summary

We’ve set up a Google Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/oxford-dreamweaver-user-group

Sign up on the right of this page, or on the Google Groups website, and we’ll send you notifications of meetings and any other news we can think of (but not too much!).

Come along to Adobe’s conference held in Milan

December 1 - 4th, 2008

If you’ve attended a User Group meeting in Oxford, contact us to get your discount code.

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Date: December 10th

Time: 7.30 - 9.30

Location: OFVM

Our next meeting is the last for 2008, and will be a combo Christmas party for the Flash and Dreamweaver User Groups + show-and-tell. Bring along any projects your working on using Adobe software and talk about them. If you need any special facilities, let us know beforehand. If you haven’t been to a User Group meeting before, this is your chance to meet informally.

Adobe CS4 is coming here

Adobe announced Adobe Creative Suite 4 on September 23rd 2008. Come along to the next User Group meeting to see more in-depth analysis of what it contains. You might come away with useful knowledge, a new T-shirt, new contacts, or just a sense of childlike wonder.

When: Wednesday October 1st, 7.30 - 9.30 latest

Where: OFVM – Film Oxford, 54 Catherine St, Oxford, OX4 3AH

Let us know you’re coming at Upcoming Events

Alun gave a quick presentation on Spry, and how to use it in Dreamweaver to create a picture gallery web app. John won the $2,000 software raffle, congratulations John, and very kindly donated it to OFVM, our generous hosts.

Here are the notes from the presentation.

Q. Where to get Spry?

It comes with Dreamweaver CS3, as Spry version 1.4

A. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/

Updated to 1.6.1 prerelease 25 Feb 2008, supports AIR

Download the framework, which includes examples and documentation, or just download the updater for Dreamweaver CS3

Adobe Spry home page with demos and examples.

Adobe online tutorial:

www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/spry_photo_album.html by Dan Booth, Adobe

This includes the data framework, sample photos and XML data file.

Lynda.com online video tutorials (not free)

Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS Essential Training by James Williamson (502)

(Chapter 11 is focused on Spry)

More advanced: Dreamweaver CS3 Projects: Creating Custom Spry Widgets with James Williamson (589)

Some sample AJAX (dynamic javascript) examples, which could be used for a photo gallery:

• Lightbox
  www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/
  example in-use at: www.kurrent.co.uk
• Highslide
  http://highslide.com

Don’t forget, the next meeting is on 1 October 2008 - sign up for the event,  this will be a special Adobe launch edition.

The ADOBE USER GROUPS in Oxford meet this Wednesday, 3rd September

Things kick off at 7.30pm with the Flash Oxford User Group

Tim Watts, Lead Actionscript Developer from Juice will be looking at Box2D, an open source physics engine for Flash. Covering basic set-up through to some more advanced settings, it will be a fairly fast-paced overview of how to implement the Actionscript 3.0 port of the technology.

http://foxu.org.uk

We then move seemlessly on to the Oxford Dreamweaver User Group’s session:

Alun Ward of Eye Division will introduce the Spry Ajax framework in Dreamweaver CS3 and walk through the creation of a dynamic photo album website.

There will also be over $2000 worth of Adobe software up for grabs!!

Refreshments are available, or bring your own.

Come along, it’s all free, to:

OFVM Film Oxford

54 Catherine St

Oxford, OX4 3AH

Quick newsflash to let you know the date of the next meeting for FOXU and ODUG: Wednesday September 3rd. You can check more venue details, and even let us know you’re coming on our Events listing.

This month we will be looking at Adobe Flex and Matt Steel, Technology Consultant, from Oxford University Press will be leading the session. Flex is a great way to develop RIA’s (rich internet applications). This induction will provide an overview of Flex Builder development software.

http://foxu.org.uk

Oxford Dreamweaver User Group - 7th August 8.30pm at OFVM

A preview of Dreamweaver CS4

We’ll take a look under the hood of the next release of Dreamweaver CS4, including Photoshop integration, CSS and Code View updates, Ajax implementation, and talk about what we can do in future with this User Group.

Directions

OFVM – Film Oxford
54 Catherine St
Oxford
OX4 3AH

http://ofvm.org