Building workflows for Rich Internet Applications and Experiences

On September 23rd, Adobe will be unveiling our newest release of Creative Suite, Creative Suite 4. As a product manager for the suite, and the workflows it opens up, I am proud and excited to openly share and discuss the new capabilities that will be featured.

Be sure to register for the web broadcast, where you can see, for the first time ever all of the amazing things we have put into Creative Suite 4.

I’ll be attending WordCamp San Francisco today. Drop me a line if you’ll be attending. I’m looking forward to learning more about some advanced user features of WordPress, plus some of the APIs and features that are under-the-hood that I can tap into.

The team behind Adobe Labs has opened up a forum to get feedback from Adobe Lab users. Please visit the forum and submit your comments, recommendations, bugs, and other issues that you have to let us make Adobe Labs better!

We’re looking for as much feedback as we can get by early September. Thanks!

I will be speaking at MAX 2008 this year in San Francisco in three sessions. The first, “Exploring Cross-Discipline Workflows” will be a presentation on how designers can integrate and collaborate with other designers or developers between media types and disciplines. The second session, “Introduction to Animation with Flash” is a beginner walkthrough in how to leverage the animation features in Flash for designers that are new to the product. Finally, in the “Flex Project Workflows” session, I will take attendees through the end-to-end process of creating a large-scale Flex application, and show you potential road blocks that you may encounter, and how to mitigate these difficulties.

MAX will be a great show this year, and I look forward to meeting you at the show! Be sure to register before August 31 to get the Early Bird Discount.

Adobe has announced that it is teaming up with Google and Yahoo (official press release) to offer a new level of search engine optimization with SWFs will be available for Flash and Flex designers and developers. Previously inaccessible information is now exposed and is able to be indexed by search engines to maximize search results directed to Flash-based web applications and experiences.

For Flash and Flex developers, there are no actions to take. There are posts on the Google Webmaster Central Blog about the new improved indexing. The following blogs also have additional content:

• Ryan Stewart
• Ted Patrick

In previous versions of Dreamweaver, the Spry data set wizard loaded XML files and created interactive tables and controls using Ajax. In the new Dreamweaver beta, this functionality has been expanded to include HTML files with data tables.
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With the new Fireworks beta posted on Adobe Labs, users have new ways of collaborating and sharing prototypes with their teams and customers using Adobe PDF.

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As web experiences become richer and more interactive, the files, code and assets that help build them become multi-layered and highly structured. One key element of modern websites is the abstraction of content from style and interactive code. To do this, web designers and developers isolate content in HTML, XML, CSS, and JavaScript files, combining them when needed in pages or elements.

A new feature in the Dreamweaver beta, called Related Documents, help keep the mystery out of finding the code you need in multiple files. This next post will give a short introduction.

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The recent betas released on Adobe Labs included the preview of the next version of Fireworks, Adobe’s rapid prototyping and web design tool. The new Fireworks beta includes several new features to enhance your workflow for web design and prototyping (for a full list, check out the release notes). Over the next several posts, along with Dreamweaver, I will demonstrate the top five. The first are the new Page enhancements.
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There are numerous new features in the Dreamweaver beta, for more information on them all, go to the Dreamweaver beta page at Adobe Labs. Over the next several posts, I will share with you five of the biggest features that will help your workflow in creating web experiences with Dreamweaver. The first is a demonstration of Photoshop Smart Objects.

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