http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/ Scott Fegette - Adobe - Dreamweaver en Copyright 2009 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:27:11 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.38 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss This one's been a lot of fun. Seriously. Back at MAX 2008 we got to show off a project in it's early stages, code-named Meer Meer. It raised quite a bit of attention at the time, and was - as simply as I can put it - an earnest attempt on our parts to solve a problem that we'd been hearing about for quite some time from our professional web designers and developers - the challenge of cross-browser (and OS)... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2009/06/browserlab_the.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2009/06/browserlab_the.html Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:27:11 -0800 Just a quick heads-up that this blog (and many others on the soon-to-be-former weblogs.macromedia.com server) will be migrating to a new Adobe server and updated version of Movable Type starting this evening thru the weekend. I'm going to see how things work with the upgraded server next week, and either stick with it, or migrate entirely off to my own WordPress site and merge this webblog in with my personal weblog on a new domain. I'm leaning towards the latter,... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2009/05/blog_migration.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2009/05/blog_migration.html Fri, 15 May 2009 10:37:21 -0800 Microsoft's developer conference MIX '09 is going on right now, and there were some interesting points in the keynote yesterday around plans for Expression Web 3. Whenever this happens, I tend to get a bunch of private messages/tweets/IMs asking what my reaction may be as a product manager for Dreamweaver. I wanted to address them in general here. In general- I think it's great that Expression Web is in the market, as competition is vital to have - it helps... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2009/03/mixed_thoughts.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2009/03/mixed_thoughts.html Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:27:45 -0800 Wow- where did 2008 go? Between CS4 development and release, the MAX conference (a virtual blur) and the general holiday-season craziness of recent weeks I seem to have blinked and lost a few months in the process. But while I've been preoccupied, Dreamweaver CS4 continues to get great reviews and feedback, definitely one of our biggest DW releases in years as Ross Greenburg at Computer World reports: "As for me, I immediately updated to CS4 as soon as I could.... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2009/01/welcome_to_2009.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2009/01/welcome_to_2009.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:57:19 -0800 If you've been flying blind with the Dreamweaver CS4 public beta and no documentation, I've got some good news- we just posted the Dreamweaver CS4 help files in their mostly-complete state in advance of the official CS4 ship date. You can access them here right away: Dreamweaver CS4 - What's New Using Dreamweaver CS4 Even cooler, our Learning Resources team has launched a new 'Community Help' site that not only indexes the official product documentation, but other community resources that... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/09/dreamweaver_cs4.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/09/dreamweaver_cs4.html Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:35:07 -0800 One of the MAX 2008 sessions I'm most excited about is Danilo Celic's session "Extending the Spry Framework". Danilo's both an engineer for WebAssist as well as a hardcore individual developer, having been writing Dreamweaver extensions since the API was published years ago. If you've been working with Spry but not venturing much 'outside the box', this is exactly the session for you- Danilo will cover custom widgets, transitions and effects by extending the base Spry component set, and how... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/08/max_session_hig_2.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/08/max_session_hig_2.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:25:53 -0800 Full disclosure- "Designing in a Developer's World" is my session this year at MAX. It was born out of many, many discussions I've had over the last 2 years in which it's become increasingly clear that the line between designer and developer is blurring when it comes to modern web-based projects. As opposed to a decade ago where static web pages and request/response interaction with server-side components were your only choice, these days your average web designer creates designs that... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/08/max_session_hig_1.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/08/max_session_hig_1.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:59:49 -0800 Setting up a new Dreamweaver site project can be quite a chore. Sure, you have the FTP/SSH info for your host on hand, a URL you can hit in a browser, and a shrinking deadline (who doesn't these days?), but building robust sitewide designs and the directory structure that houses them can require a huge amount of preplanning and headwork to do well. Just getting that 'clickable site framework' up and live can be a major undertaking, especially with clients... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/08/webassist_launc.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/08/webassist_launc.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:32:10 -0800 As we get closer to MAX, I'll be highlighting some of the sessions I've noticed that are particularly interesting, unique or otherwise noteworthy- and the first is a rather unlikely combo of technologies that should present a really interesting look into spreading Ajax interfaces onto conventional - or perhaps even unconventional foundations. In my first featured session, "Using the FileMaker Pro API for PHP with Adobe's Spry framework", FileMaker Pro expert Joe Scarpetta will take a critical look at how... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/08/max_session_hig.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/08/max_session_hig.html Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:48:04 -0800 I'm currently at An Event Apart San Francisco, where I'll be speaking this evening on Responsible Web Design, a meme I've been following for the last year or so without sharing the slides. Although it started as a 'Cliffs Notes' preso on web design and development best practices, it's now started to incorporate some of the new features of Dreamweaver CS4 that support said practices. I'm all for closing loops, honestly. As this will be the last time I give... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/08/speaking_today.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/08/speaking_today.html Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:39:23 -0800 It's a historic quest of epic proportions- we're trying to find the very first customer of Dreamweaver again after 10 years, and need your help. Check out Kush's Adobe TV video embedded below for the details (link here if you're reading via syndication), memorize that historic face, and help us find him, y'all!... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/07/the_dreamweaver.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/07/the_dreamweaver.html Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:39:15 -0800 The A List Apart staff just announced it's second annual Survey For People Who Make Websites, and I strongly urge you to head over and take it. Last year's Survey was a goldmine of information on our industry- who we are, where we live, our jobs and roles and backgrounds, and I for one am really interested in seeing how these metrics change over time. This isn't just for web designers, mind you, but anyone working on web projects. From... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/07/the_survey_2008.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/07/the_survey_2008.html Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:11:57 -0800 A few months back, I made a random Tweet about some internal screencasts I was working on, and got a private ping from Clearleft's user experience guru Andy Budd, asking a bit about what I was recording and what software I was using to do so. That's when I began suspecting that the Clearleft crew had some devious alchemy underway in their Brighton, UK headquarters. The result of such mad science? Silverback- a Mac-based application for lightweight usability testing. All... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/07/silverback_-_gu.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/07/silverback_-_gu.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:57:18 -0800 It can be tough to stay on top of web standards and best practices when you're churning away on projects- and god knows reading the W3C specs can be overwhelming. Recently Opera has taken a big step forward in releasing the Opera Web Standards Curriculum- a series of Creative Commons-licensed articles stepping through the breath of standards-based web development in an incredibly straightforward manner. Although they've planned around 50 such articles, the first 23 are now online for your educational... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/07/operas_web_stan.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/07/operas_web_stan.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:59:46 -0800 I sat down a few weeks ago with Andre Charland and had a very candid discussion about the Dreamweaver public beta and how it relates to Ajax designers/developers, and it's just been posted up on the InsideRIA site for your viewing/listening pleasure. We talked about a ton of things, including how I came to be a Dreamweaver product manager, the reasons I was ultra-skeptical of Dreamweaver before coming to Macromedia in 2000, as well as the vision behind the upcoming... http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/07/dw_screencast_a.html http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2008/07/dw_screencast_a.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:26:57 -0800