Well, week one of the Adobe Nordic Tour is now behind us. Jason Levine, Mike Downey, Serge Jespers, Stephanie Sullivan and I had some great crowds in Stockholm and Copenhagen for the “Unlocking Modern Web Workflows” and “To the Web, the Desktop and Beyond” seminars. Over 400 people turned up for each of the seminars. The audiences were really fun and engaged, and we had some great comments and questions during the breaks.

It’s always fun to see that web crowds around the world are all struggling with the same issues and challenges – and this is especially true within the area of CSS. Stephanie did a great job taking the audience through the use of the new CSS starter layouts in Dreamweaver CS3. It’s rather amazing to me that there are still people who’ve not experimented them – but we definitely know that there are 800 new believers that will be using them.


One of the other highlights that got a lot of interest was the recently updated Spry Framework for AJAX – version 1.6. I’ve really been enjoying showing off this major step forward for Adobe’s AJAX support – no more getting beaten up at “standards” conferences when I show it. The best part is it’s ability to use HTML recordsets and unobtrusive Javascript! (And of course, there’s a whole chapter dedicated to using Spry in the upcoming book!)

This week we’ll be in Helsinki and Oslo – so if you’re in the area, we’d love to see you.

Richard Galvan, Product Manager for Flash Authoring, recently posted an entry on his blog discussing components for Flash CS3 and the further development of new components for Flash Authoring. Read more about this on his blog.

There’s only a little over a week left until we’ll be wow’ing the crowds in Scandinavia with a full day of seminars. If you happen to live in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki or Oslo, make sure to check out your regional adobe.com site under the events section for all the details.

In a nutshell, we’ll be doing two separate seminars. The first seminar is a four hour seminar in the morning focusing on cross-media web workflows, in which we’ll look at prototyping for the web, designing standards-based XHTML sites, creating and publishing video for the web and creating interactive Flash content. In the afternoon, we’ll turn our attention to Rich Internet Applications using Flex, and then taking those applications (or building entirely new ones) to the desktop using Adobe Air. My colleague, Mike Downey, and I will take you through using Dreamweaver, Flash and/or Flex to build the next generation of internet-enabled desktop applications in Air.