Bring Your Web Design to Life: Creating Rich Media Websites with Adobe Creative Suite

Product Author Bios

Chris Converse is an award-winning designer, whose expertise is a perfect balance between traditional and interactive mediums, including print, interactive, DVD and CD-ROM production, animation, corporate identity, branding and photography. His company Chris Converse Design has worked with high profile clients including Adobe Systems, AOL, Comcast, Campbells, Pepperidge Farm, Johnson and Johnson, Pfizer, and many more. In addition to hands-on experience, Chris has taught new media courses and has created and presented content as a guest speaker at a number of industry events including Adobe Max. Chris holds a BFA in Graphic Design from The Rochester Institute of Technology.

This essential new DVD/book combo from award-winning designer Chris Converse will have viewers transforming static Web designs into visually rich, interactive web sites in no time. Focusing on beginner web designers and print designers who need to optimize their designs for the web, Chris will walk the viewer through all of the tools in Adobe's Creative Suite Web Premium. With over 4 hours of high quality video tutorials, the viewer will learn how to create a Dreamweaver website project, slice a completed design in Photoshop or Fireworks, build CSS rules for layout, format content and navigation with CSS, import and animate illustrator files in flash, edit and apply motion graphics to video with Photoshop Extended, and much more. The accompanying book is a handy reference that provides an outline of the video tutorials as well as the basic principles covered. By the end of the training viewers will have the skills and knowledge to create a fully functioning web page with interactivity and embedded video.