Meetings


September 2009 Meeting

Next meeting: September 1, 1-4 PM
Marlboro College Graduate Center
Brattleboro, VT

directions

Agenda:

  • 1 PM: Silvana Gravini of Silvana.net will talk about the Web 2.0 tools and tricks Obama used to win his campaign, and how you can take advantage of them in your business.
  • 2:30 PM: Jil MacMenamin of Mac-Rand Systems & Designs will talk about Photoshop selection tools, feathering, and creating a simple ad.
  • Raffle for free book drawing and Adobe schwag. Books courtesy of O'Reilly!
  • As always, there is no admission fee to attend our meetings.
 
August 2009 Meeting

Next meeting: August 4, 1-4 PM
Marlboro College Graduate Center
Brattleboro, VT

directions

Agenda:

  • 1 PM: Open!
  • 2:30 PM: Ben Jessup will talk about interactive PDFs.
  • Raffle for free book drawing and Adobe schwag. Books courtesy of O'Reilly!
  • As always, there is no admission fee to attend our meetings.
 
July 2009 Meeting
There is no meeting scheduled for July 2009. Enjoy your month off!
 
June 2009 Meeting

Next meeting: June 2, 1-4 PM
Marlboro College Graduate Center
Brattleboro, VT

directions

Agenda:

  • 1 PM: Meg McCarthy: InDesign has a export to XHTML capability, but it generates non-standards-compliant code. Using InDesign's XML tools, you can export clean basic XHTML that's ready to be tweaked and styled. We'll walk through the process of tagging and exporting a simple InDesign document.
  • 2:30 PM: 10 minute talks!
  • ............. JilMac shared that Adobe has a FREE Connect called ConnectNOW! for up to 3 computers
  • ............. ConnectNow Download LINK: http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow/

  • Raffle for free book drawing and Adobe schwag. Books courtesy of O'Reilly!
  • As always, there is no admission fee to attend our meetings.
 
May 2009 Meeting

Next meeting: May 5, 1-4 PM
Marlboro College Graduate Center
Brattleboro, VT

directions

Agenda:

  • 1 PM: Christopher Millsap from ZoomText will talk about website accessibility.
  • ..... Chris Milsap's slides on  ZoomText are available in PDF format.
  • ..... http://neaug.org/images/stories/zoomtext.pdf 
  • 2:30 PM: Steve Judd, UNH Cooperative Extension, will demonstrate the application and its practical use Balsamiq Mockups (http://www.balsamiq.com/): Getting ready to design a site and need to sketch out some ideas?  Balsamiq Mockups is a rapid prototyping tool that let's you come up with usable designs quickly.  Use them to get buy off from a client or just play around with ideas you have.  It's not intended to mimic the look and feel of your site, but instead capture the functional elements.
  • Steve has gotten us a FREE BALSAMIQ MOCKUPS license for raffle at this meeting!

  • Raffle for free book drawing and Adobe schwag. Books courtesy of O'Reilly!
  • As always, there is no admission fee to attend our meetings.