Last week I had the honor of presenting at DevCon5 in Santa Clara. A great developer conference centered around using web standards to create dynamic user experiences. I presented two sessions. One around CSS3 and the other around HTML5 “hotness”. Below are the slide decks. I hope to have a more complete recording of the demos I did because that’s the exciting stuff. Seeing it all in action. But I guess that’s just a reason […]
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CSS3 for Advanced Design
Today I spoke at DevCon5 in NYC.  It was a blast.  The crowd was great and really intelligent. Lots of good questions about CSS and HTML 5.  I even previewed Edge. I hope to come back next year! Below are my slides and you can download my example files here. CSS3 For Advanced Design View more presentations from paultrani
Read MoreFAQ's About Dreamweaver CS5.5
After travelling around the world on the Creative Suite Evolution Tour as well as presenting at various Adobe Camps, I’ve been getting a lot questions around Dreamweaver CS5.5. Rightfully so since it has some great features and improvements.  So I thought I’d compile the questions into one post. What is Dreamweaver? Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5 is a web authoring and editing software that provides both visual and code-level capabilities for creating standards-based websites for the desktop, smartphones, tablets, […]
Read MoreCSS3 Transitions
I love Flex and ActionScript but I always want to recommend the appropriate technology for the job.  Sometimes that technology is CSS3 and HTML5, which is really exciting to me. So I thought I’d post a simple CSS3 example — on the CSS3 transition property to be specific. It allows property changes in CSS values to occur smoothly over a specified duration. In this example, when you hover the mouse over the link, the background color […]
Read MoreAdobeTV: Dreamweaver Series Available
Launched today is an exciting new classroom series from AdobeTV and yours truly: Basic Site Layout and Navigation in Dreamweaver CS5. In it I take you through a step by step guide for creating your first website using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. Along the way I explain the basic concepts around how the web, HTML and CSS work as well as the basics of website layout, navigation and integrating media such as images, video and Flash […]
Read MoreWeb 2.0: Raising the Bar with Cross-Device Experiences
The bar is being raised on many fronts. Consumers expect content to “be there” on their device and they expect a consistent user experience within context of the medium. Designers and developers want to be able to meet these needs without recreating content per device. In this session I show how Adobe Creative Suite 5 can create experiences for the web, desktop and mobile devices. (Use your keyboard arrow keys to advance slides)
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