AKA, "How I learned Atlas by learning AJAX first".
It's been nearly a year since I did my first Atlas presentation for the PDC Underground in Los Angeles at the 2005 PDC. I updated my presentation for a talk in Irvine on 9/23/06 for an all-SoCal User Group shindig (on a Saturday!) at the airport Hilton.
You can download the "presentation" which is funny since it was mostly code. I added a default.htm that walks through the order in which the pages were created, live, for the talk.
It helps to have Fiddler handy to watch what's going on behind the scenes. Due to a problem/bug with IE7 and the inability to proxy localhost requests, you have to use Fiddler with Firefox if you're using Cassini (the local web server that comes with Web Developer Express). Not a big deal, really.
I'd post a screen shot of the atlas demo, but it's such a pain to do images with Community Server that I'm going to punt this time. In fact, we're going to switch to SharePoint 2007 any day partly for the ability to easily add images to your blog posts!