What did I learn today ? » Adobe CS4 http://www.urshula.com/wordpress Grin and Beere IT Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:28:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Adobe Evangelist and CS4 http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/my-stuff/adobe-evangalist-and-cs4/ http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/my-stuff/adobe-evangalist-and-cs4/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:09:26 +0000 admin1 http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/?p=194 Ok I’ve now had a bit more time to play with CS4 and I must admit its growing on me. Not in a bad rash kind of way- more like a new “know it all work colleague” who has just joined the company who “knows a better way to do absolutely everything“- that we all take an instant dislike to!!! But once we get over the initial shock we realise they actually do have some good ideas.

Getting over the initial shock was helped greatly by going to the Adobe CS4 roadshow in Brisbane and seeing the potential of the software demonstrated by true professionals. I must also thank Paul Burnett Senior Adobe Evangelist for taking the time to email this photo below.

You may not be able to see the Kingscliff TAFE students but we certainly can.

Pauls mad.com.au web site is another great addition to our resource sites along with adobe tv and where I spotted the photo. I must also mention at this time that the other presenters Mike McHugh, Michael Stoddart were just as entertaining and informative. OK they do it all day – everyday and are paid to make it look easy but they also made it look good.

Click on the photo below and on the new window which opens see if you can spot us. (It uses a cool javascript to zoom in)

]]> http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/my-stuff/adobe-evangalist-and-cs4/feed/ 0 what I like about CS4 http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/adobe-cs4/dreamweaver/what-i-like-about-cs4/ http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/adobe-cs4/dreamweaver/what-i-like-about-cs4/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:57:36 +0000 admin1 http://www.urshula.com/wordpress/?p=184 First the disclaimer- I have only had Adobe CS4 installed for a few weeks and haven’t really dug deep deep down yet but I have had a play and I have updated some commercial work so I think I’m at a point of to be able to comments on the the CS4 update.
In Dreamweaver I love the new workspaces- it was always a pain for me that I couldn’t undock the panels and move them to the my second monitor so I have more design view room. So now that I have the option of dual screens
I love the having the code inspector open all the time big so as I edit in design view I can see properly whats happening in the code. No more split screen and having to scroll up and down continuously.
I also love that I can now open and tweak the original Photoshop documents that my images are based on directly from within Dreamweaver when previously this was only possible for Fireworks based images.
One thing that still hasn’t improved is Dreamweaver FTP client – while it may mean that I have accessed to feature such as collaborative features such as checking in and out it really is still painfully slowwwww!!!
Another feature which I like is the updated data set wizard which is a lot easier or at least seems alot easier now to add some ajax interactively. The movie below is a great intro and very easy to follow.

This is a great movie from Adobe on Web Widgets
PS: Welcome back :)

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