TODCon Day Three Abstracts
Friday | Saturday | Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Everything I Know About Accessibility I Learned From Star Wars - Derek Featherstone
Star Wars is much more than a cult hit for sci-fi fans. It includes life-lessons for all of us, and helps us see our craft as web professionals from a different perspective. Here we learn what our favorite Star Wars characters have to say about accessibility.
Moving from web 1.0 to web 2.0 - Estelle Weyl
Web 2.0 is all the rage, but you've mastered Web 1.0. What is Web 2.0 and what, as a web developer, do you need to know to become a 2.0 master. We will cover what the experienced webmaster needs to know to stay relevant and what you need to know to get a job as a web developer in the Web 2.0 world.
Fireworks :Public Beta – What’s new? - Jim Babbage
The beta’s out and Fireworks CS4 is chock full of cool new features to aid in your web design workflow. This session will cover many of the new features and demonstrate some of them, such as wrapping text around an object, in-place symbol editing, creating interactive PDF’s and the improved Import and Export for Photoshop Files.
What's This Button Do? Communicating Web 2.0 Through Design - Robert Hoekman, Jr.
The rise of Web 2.0 has brought with it a slew of new interaction styles and concepts, most of which give the web some magical powers it never had before, but RSS, tagging, slide transitions, and many other new paradigms are unfamiliar to web audiences, and helping users take advantage of them is essential to a superior user experience. So how do we teach our users to use all these fancy new gadgets?
In this session, Robert Hoekman, Jr., describes how to communicate the purpose, benefit, and usage of these new interactions and effectively use text, screenshots, screencasts, and other elements to make web applications easy to learn. You'll see when and where to use instructive elements, how to take advantage of screenshot and screen-recording software, write instructions in ten words or less, and keep your users feeling productive from the very beginning.
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Starting from Scratch in Fireworks - Alan Musselman
Come learn why the process can be difficult when starting with a blank canvas in Fireworks. We'll be starting from a blank canvas and designing an interactive mockup to deliver to the client within one hour. You'll learn how to effectively work with the tools and workspace in Fireworks and make the client's idea a reality.
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Lunch
Unobtrusive JavaScript - Paul Davis
JavaScript has come a long way since its days as the black sheep of the web development tools. Modern JavaScript libraries and code is becoming unobtrusive. This means less JavaScript inserted in to the HTML of the page and more manipulation of the web page through the DOM (document object model). In this session we will go over the details on how this is done and provide some examples on how to write your own JavaScript.
Managing web projects in a river named chaos - Jesse Rodgers
In this session Jesse will demonstrate a web standard friendly template configuration that works for both Contribute and Dreamweaver users that has been deployed to hundreds of sites throughout the University of Waterloo campus. He will also explore how Contribute can meet the needs for a Content Management System when combined with Dreamweaver 8, without the need for Contribute Publishing Server.
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Closing Session
- ColdFusion •
- Flash •
- Fireworks •
- Dreamweaver •
- Photoshop •
- CSS •
- Web Business
