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End of year wind-up report

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

The last session of 2008 was a fun social, with software giveaway, Adobe swag handout, drinks, and show-and-tell from quite a few members.

John showed us one of his favourite sites: www.bestflashanimation.com which highlighted the great Flash www.cigaretteisdead.com site.

Alun talked about his installation/performance piece Transporter Mix coming to the Ovada Gallery, Oxford in January. Apart from shameless self-promotion, he also showed us kuler – the free Adobe site and downloadable AIR package that allows you to create colour harmonies and export swatches, as well as share these with other users.

Mark showed us his video in an Intel online video competition – go and vote for it (until the end of next week) at http://blog.digitaldragrace.com/articles/2008/12/09/user-battle-1-about-begin/

Glenn showed us one of his favourite Flash sites at www.gotmilk.com, and the Adobe Edge newsletter – with links to a Volkswagen anniversary website, created in Flash by the company Achtun

Julian showed us one of his own Flash games, at his site http://www.longanimalsgames.com/
He’ll be talking more about his Flash game creation experience at the January meeting.

Blayze showed us a game he developed for company Altitude24 www.altitude24.co.uk

Stephen had been to Adobe Max in Milan, so talked us through what happens at one of those events. You’ve missed Milan now of course, but if you’re travelling east, you can still catch Max Tokyo http://jp.max.adobe.com/

Lesley won the Flash User Group software raffle – congratulations – spend the dosh wisely!

Gary from OFVM talked about the MIDAS production awards. They’re being expanded this year to include new media work. This might include games and web site projects as well as the more traditional time based media. If you think you could benefit from free access to OFVM’s resources (cameras, kit, expertise, connections), get in touch with Gary at OFVM – production@ofvm.org and read more at http://www.ofvm.org/

All this plus general chit chat, eating of doritos, popcorn, drinking of beer and wine, and our biggest attendance yet.

Thanks to all who came along, and see you on January 7th for the first meeting of 2009.

Alun

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Christmas Meeting and Party – 10th December 2008

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
The next meeting will be the Adobe User Groups Oxford Christmas Party. There will be a $2500 free software prize giveaway. We will also be having a “Show and Tell” session where we are asking everybody to showcase a website. This can be one you have made or one that someone else has made and you think is great. So bring along a URL as well as some party snacks and drinks if you fancy it. Look forward to seeing you there. As ever the group is open to anybody who works with or is interested in Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash and Action Script. The evening will kick off at 7.30pm at OFVM film makers, Oxford.

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

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Next meeting : December

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

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.

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CS4 launch event – October 1st

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

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

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Second ODUG meeting report

Friday, September 5th, 2008

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:

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

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First meeting report

Friday, August 8th, 2008
Last night’s meeting was a simple introduction to the Dreamweaver group to prospective members, mainly explaining the benefits of Adobe User Groups. Many thanks to those who made it, and stuck with us all the way through from the Flash session to the end!
Alun ran through a quick overview of Dreamweaver CS4, a free beta of which is available from the Adobe site.
The beta is free until launch for registered owners of Dreamweaver CS3.
Adobe Media Player IconWe walked through a couple of the videos Adobe have provided, explaining some of the new features in CS4 : Live View, Related Files, and Live Code.
These videos can be viewed either on the Adobe TV web site, or by installing the Adobe Media Player and browsing for the DreamLabs channel. Go straight to the first in the series of six videos: Related Files, and carry on browsing the TV site to view the rest.
In passing, Alun talked about the YUI (pronounced Why-You-I) Code Library, which you can find at http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
and Adobe’s own AJAX framework, Spry.
We talked a bit about possible topics for future sessions, and these included web accessibility, Spry and AIR – which would integrate well with the Flash User Group’s interests. We’re also probably going to be able to cover Photoshop and Illustrator, so designers and pencil-pushers don’t feel left out!
Next meeting is September 3rd.

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First meeting 7th August – 7.30 for 8.30pm

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
This month sees the launch of the Oxford Dreamweaver User Group. This will be meeting at OFVM – Film Oxford and will run back to back with the Flash user group. Alun Ward will be hosting this group – details of the first meeting below. Turn up at 7.30 to take part in the first event of the evening, our sister User Group:
Flash Oxford User Group - 7th August 7.30pm at OFVM
An introduction to Adobe Flex

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

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