MAX 2007 - Pre-Conference Training Sessions

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Every year at MAX Adobe hosts a pre-conference training day. These additional full-day hands-on training sessions sell out every single year and last year sold out in 30 days. The training classrooms have computers fully loaded with all training material and you work with the technologies hands on with an instructor.

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Here are the Training Sessions available at MAX 2007 in Chicago:

Unlocking Cross-Media Workflows
Attend this action-packed workshop to learn how Creative Suite 3 Master Collection enables you to design smoothly and cost effectively for multiple media — including print, web, interactive design, mobile, and video. We'll deconstruct the workflow process behind several projects to demonstrate how to: prepare assets for use anywhere; design compelling websites that leverage video, interactivity, and external content contributions; create digital publications from print layouts; output compelling video for use online and in interactive content; and prepare content for viewing on mobile devices.

Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium (Windows Lab)
Immerse yourself in a full day of training on the tightly integrated toolset in Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. Discover powerful new features such as Live Color in Illustrator CS3, the new Smart Filters, Quick Selection, and Auto-Align features in Photoshop CS3 Extended, and transparency effects, table styles, and Multi-image Place in InDesign CS3. Learn how to build a web page using the industry-leading tools in Dreamweaver, and expand your creative options with an introduction to Flash CS3 Professional. Tight integration among Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash enables you to apply what you know to learning new skills. Take your creative work to a new level with the leading cross-media design toolkit.

Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium (MAC Lab)
Immerse yourself in a full day of training on the tightly integrated toolset in Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. Discover powerful new features such as Live Color in Illustrator CS3, the new Smart Filters, Quick Selection, and Auto-Align features in Photoshop CS3 Extended, and transparency effects, table styles, and Multi-image Place in InDesign CS3. Learn how to build a web page using the industry-leading tools in Dreamweaver, and expand your creative options with an introduction to Flash CS3 Professional. Tight integration among Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Flash enables you to apply what you know to learning new skills. Take your creative work to a new level with the leading cross-media design toolkit.

Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium
Discover the most comprehensive web design toolkit available today. In this one-day, hands-on class, you'll learn how to prepare web assets in Photoshop CS3 and Illustrator CS3, prototype a web project in Fireworks CS3, build dynamic websites using CSS and the new Spry framework for Ajax in Dreamweaver CS3, and integrate Photoshop and Illustrator assets into interactive projects designed in Flash CS3 Professional. Find out how to identify and solve common CSS issues with the Browser Compatibility Check and Adobe CSS Advisor website. Discover how to prepare content for mobile devices and then preview and test it using Adobe Device Central. You’ll walk away with practical tips and techniques for maintaining best practices in web design and development.

Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
Experience working at peak efficiency on every phase of video production with Adobe’s tightly integrated post-production tools for Mac and Windows. In this all-day class, you'll explore new support for video layers in Photoshop CS3; prepare Illustrator CS3 graphics for video output more easily; design compelling After Effects CS3 Professional animations; apply slow motion with variable speed control for dramatic effect in Adobe Premiere Pro CS3; and accomplish everyday audio tasks more intuitively with new Soundbooth CS3. Also learn about integration with Flash CS3 Professional and the direct-to-disk recording and on-set monitoring tools in OnLocation CS3. Then master delivering content to film, video, DVD, Blu-Ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices to reach your broadest audience ever.

LiveCycle ES: Building Applications
In this one-day intensive course, you'll learn how to develop, streamline, integrate, and protect composite applications across geographical and organization boundaries with Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite. By enabling service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM), LiveCycle ES allows both business and IT professionals to visually assemble end-to-end processes that unify systems, people, business rules, and web services quickly and flexibly. The basics of SOA solutions and using rich Internet applications are introduced, followed by an in-depth walkthrough of designing, deploying, and monitoring processes. We'll cover the use of form guides and Flex, development of web services to build the composite application, and the use of business rules in processes.

Flex 3: Integrating with ColdFusion
This session provides ColdFusion developers with hands-on, practical experience connecting their Flex 3 client applications to remote, dynamic data provided by ColdFusion and LiveCycle Data Services. This two-day course teaches developers how to connect with remote data using ColdFusion Flash Remoting and the Flex Data Management Service, and how to integrate ColdFusion Enterprise Edition with the Flex Message Service.

Flex 3: Integration with Java
This session provides experienced application developers with hands-on, practical experience connecting their Flex front ends to remote, dynamic data using LiveCycle Data Services. This two-day course covers how to connect with remote data using web services and LiveCycle Data Services, allowing communication with a Java back end. We'll also discuss how to manipulate and format the returned data.

Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications
Get hands-on, practical experience using Flex. This course introduces developers to all the primary features of Flex they need to know to build a fully functional, well-architected front end for a rich Internet application (RIA).

Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR): Bringing Rich Internet Applications to the Desktop
This full-day course will include everything you need to get started building applications with Adobe AIR. We'll cover techniques that will allow Flex and HTML developers to create rich applications for deployment on the desktop. Learn how to interact with the windowing API and file system, drag and drop to the desktop, handle data persistence, and more. Learn more about the dynamic cross-scripting between Flash and HTML within the Adobe AIR runtime. We'll also discuss how to easily package and distribute Adobe AIR applications.

What's New in ColdFusion 8
ColdFusion 8 is the most ambitious and capable version of ColdFusion to date and features enhancements for developers, administrators, and managers alike. In this full-day session you will get invaluable hands-on experience with PDF manipulation, image processing, .NET integration, Acrobat Connect Presentation generation, debugging, server monitoring, and much more.

Building ColdFusion Applications around Design Patterns
Design patterns are ways to write code for maximum reuse and manageability, and the ColdFusion community has created and adopted design patterns ideally suited to ColdFusion development. This full-day session will expose you to design patterns and give you hands-on experience building more scalable and manageable applications.

Introduction to Flash Lite 2
This session is a deep-diving workshop on developing Flash Lite content and applications. We'll begin with a general Flash Lite tutorial and then move on to more detailed information on how to develop content for mobile operators, including Verizon Wireless.

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See you at MAX 2007!

Regards,

Ted :)

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