SFMMUF: Tuesday 3/7 - Dreamweaver 3 & Director 8 LOCATION: First Floor Conference Room, 600 Townsend Street & Seventh, San Francisco. ADMISSION: $5. $2 if you bring a first-time attendee. Exact change is appreciated. In our March meeting we'll be looking at two of Macromedia's newest products: Dreamweaver 3 and Director 8! Alan Felgate, Macromedia's senior evangelist will be showing off both products. By the way, don't forget that March 7th is election day, so please vote early as we'd hate to miss you at this great meeting. SFMMUF Meeting Schedule: 6:00 - 7:00 Q&A with John Dowdell of Macromedia 7:00 - 7:45 First presentation: Dreamweaver 3 7:45 - 8:00 General Announcements* 8:00 - 8:20 Pizza and good conversation 8:20 - 9:05 Second presentation: Director 8 9:05 - 9:15 Raffle and product giveaway (Dreamweaver 3/Fireworks 3 bundle) *As anyone who attended the last meeting can attest, there were tons of job positions announced in February. Our meetings are a great chance to meet other people in the industry, share experiences, and make new friends. If you've never attended a meeting before, we encourage you to check us out in March. Dreamweaver 3 - http://www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver/ Dreamweaver 3 is the solution for professional Web site design and production. Develop ground-breaking sites, automate production, and enhance team efficiency. Control your code with Roundtrip HTML and the revolutionary Quick Tag Editor. Accelerate workflow through integration with Web applications, Microsoft Office, and leading e-commerce and application servers. Only Dreamweaver can be customized using HTML, JavaScript, and XML, giving you the power you need for rapid Web development. With Dreamweaver, you'll build better Web sites faster. Director 8 - http://www.macromedia.com/software/director Director 8 Shockwave Studio streamlines the authoring process with centralized, automated functions that make it easier to manage assets, edit complex animations, build graphics on the fly, and create content for low bandwidth. Director 8 Shockwave Studio eases the development of Shockwave content, which continues to enhance the Web experience of over 109 million people . -- Both novice and advanced users create compelling content quickly and easily. In this professional authoring environment, developers can take advantage of excellent asset management, rich-media file support, and other features to turn around multimedia in Internet time. -- Create applications that are rich in media and in depth. Attract your audience with immersive, entertaining, visually compelling and interactive content. Director can help you do this with multiuser communities, dazzling animations, and more. -- Build presentations, product demonstrations, advertisements, or games for the Shockwave audience of over 120 million browsers. Output optimized Shockwave as well as stand-alone applications for CD- and DVD-ROM. John Dowdell - Resident Guru at Macromedia John will be available to answer questions and discuss technical issues related to the implementation of Macromedia technologies within the field of multimedia. This is a great opportunity to discuss technical issues with some of the top developers in the Bay Area, of which John is highly respected as one of the best. The members of the group consider it a rare privilege to have John as a regular supporter of our group. Come with questions or just to listen and learn. Alan Felgate - Macromedia Senior Evangelist Alan joined Macromedia in 1996 to develop Shockwave content for leading web sites including MGM, Capitol Records, Intel, and Razorfish. Alan became a Macromedia Evangelist in November 1997, and since then has travelled over 200,000 miles demonstrating Macromedia's award-winning Web Publishing software to corporate users, web designers, trade shows, user groups, trainings, and seminars. Alan will be demonstrating both Dreamweaver 3 and Director 8. * * * * Tell a friend! To join this list (remember, it's announcements only) send email to majordomo@sirius.com that says "subscribe sfmmuf-l" in the body of the message. To leave us, send email to majordomo@sirius.com that says "unsubscribe sfmmuf-l" in the body of the message. We'll miss you.

-- Joe Tennis (web3@joe10.com), March 01, 2000