Some may scoff and say that CSS designs are boring or difficult to build. This session will show off some ways to break outside the box and use positioning techniques to aid in creating complex solutions while still maintaining flexibility and accessibility.

About Jonathan Snook:
Jonathan Snook has luckily discovered how to turn a hobby of playing on the internet into a successful career. He worked for over seven years with web agencies in Ottawa, Canada, getting to work with clients such as Red Bull, Apple, and FedEx.

She will look at how browsers are developed, show several test cases that reveal problematic issues from various browse perspectives, and what it will take to solve these concerns and get back to the vision of a truly interoperable, accessible web. She will present some cool demos as well as photos of the IE7 Trident Engine mapping, DOM trees in Mozilla and so forth.

Dan is a highly accomplished user interface designer and usability consultant, with over ten years of experience as a leader in the fields of web standards and usability, specifically focusing on the use of (X)HTML and CSS to streamline development and increase flexibility and accessibility. In addition to his work for clients including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Geffen/Universal Media, he is a sought-after public speaker and author, most recently penning Pro CSS Techniques and Web Standards Creativity.

Open your web apps for the public to extend and enhance.

Web apps are meant to be played with. This session is about extending API thinking into all aspects of your design to give your team, your users and other developers room to make your app more about them.

We’ll take a look at some of the more successful ‘sandbox’ style applications and go through a list of specific things you can do to give your Web development work Gumby-like flexibility.

Your Speaker: Brian Oberkirch – Founder, Small Good Thing

Brian is a marketing consultant focused on web service development. He writes about social media, community-based marketing and technologies that revolve around relevance at http://www.brianoberkirch.com.

If you have not registered yet, there is still time to get a Platinum Pass so you can sit in on the one-on-one and small group sessions with the speakers. It’s a great opportunity to get insight and feedback about projects you are working on from the best in the business.

James Craig from Apple will discuss making Websites for the iPhone, Chris Perry (the guy that does Web marketing for General Motors) will talk about taking advantage of social networks and word-of-mouth marketing online; Darrin Ward (one of the world’s top search engine experts) will share some top tips on improving your search engine rank; and Doris Brown from Pantone will be there to talk about how colors on your Website affect the way people use it. Plus there are lots of other sessions on design, development, seo, marketing, branding, and more!

Check out the Session Schedule

The Platinum Pass gets more valuable:

Platinum Pass holders get access to 4 special sessions where you can talk one–on–one with our speakers about your Website. Get their advice on how to improve the design, usability, information structure, search engine rank, spiderability, accessibility, or anything else you like!

The Platinum Sessions are 2 hours long so you don’t have to miss out on another session to participate! Just stop in when you want and leave with some fantastic new knowledge. Hurry though, there are only 17 left Platinum Passes left!

Blue Flavor/Microsoft Party
Friday at 9pm the web wizards from Seattle are hosting drinks, fun and frolic at Silhouettes Bar in the Adam's Mark. Come on down, have a few free drinks and play Guitar Hero or Dance Dance Revolution on the giant XBox screen; a game of Pool, Shuffleboard, or just hang out and enjoy the fun.

Adobe Closing Party
Wow! Talk about a party. This is one night you really can't miss. We scored the VIP roof-top deck at the infamous Lizard Lounge for one of the biggest events of the year — The Wet Grooves Luau and BBQ.

This is a huge beach style blowout with world class DJs spinning until sunrise. Overlook the Dallas skyline, and all the party fun from the exclusive VIP deck while you sip free drinks and mingle with the Jam Session crew. The fun starts at 9pm Saturday and we will have shuttles setup to get you there and back. Meet us there and wrap up the Jam Session with a bang!

Thanks to Giovanni Gallucci at Dexterity Media for all his hard work getting everything compiled, edited, and ready for consumption.

We will have the DVD's available very soon so stay tuned!