I had planned on doing a series of posts here on detailing the new features you'll find in the Dreamweaver CS4 beta. The original goal was to do one main feature per week or so. But those of you reading along here may have noticed that that hasn't been happening. It didn't happen in large part because I have ended up needing to spend a lot of time over the last week preparing for my upcoming presentation at the Creative Transitions Conference in Milwaukee, where I will be speaking on ... Dreamweaver CS4. (I'll also be giving my "good form design" presentation that I did at TODCon and that I'll be doing again at MAX.)

So the best way to find out about what's new in CS4 would be to come to the conference. You can head over to the conference website to register. In addition to the 1 hour presentation, I'll also be doing a 3-hours hands-on demo of CS4 on the last day of the conference, so you'll not want to miss that.

If travelling to Milwaukee won't work for you, there are two other ways you can get the information. One is to sign up with my Adobe User Group and then attend our meeting on August 6, during which I'm going to be giving this presentation (sort of a dress rehearsal for the conference.) Don't worry if you're not local - you can attend the meeting online (details are on the site.)

You can also wait until just after the conference, when I'll be posting the presentation assets here on my site. I'll post here when those are online and provide a link to them.

I just signed and returned my speaker contract for MAX and registered for the conference, so it's now official. And a bit intimidating - the room in which I'll be speaking holds 292 people! Yikes! But I hope to see a lot of you there. If you are coming to SF, please be sure to look me up while you're here.

The official MAX website went live this week at http://max.adobe.com/na/experience/. It has an annoying auto-play video, but otherwise is pretty cool. You can view the list of sessions, register for the conference, etc.

One thing that the official site doesn't provide is general information about San Francisco. For example, the site says that the conference hotels do not provide shuttles from the airport, but then leaves it up to attendees to figure out how then they are supposed to get from the airport to the conference. In response to this, myself along with several other local user group managers including Sean Corfield, Luke Kilpatrick, Mark Altenbernd, and Seth Duffey have been putting together the MAX information site. It's already got a lot of great information about how to get to San Francisco, what to do when you're there, where to eat, where to shop, etc.

The information site is a work-in-progress, and will be right up until MAX in November. There's a suggestion box on the site where you go put your own ideas if you're a local or just know of great places to eat or things to do, or you can leave comments here and I'll get them put up on the site.