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Online Resources

HTML Writers Guild Classes
Classes are $85 and last for 6 weeks. Here is a sampling of classes offered
  • Photoshop Level 1
  • Advanced Perl Programming
  • Introduction to HTML 4.0
  • Introduction to XML
  • Business Writing Basics
  • Sites that Sizzle: Web Animation with Macromedia Flash 5
  • Creating Web Graphics with Paint Shop Pro
  • Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets
  • Web Site Promotion
  • Macromedia Flash Wizardry: A Masters Course
  • Accessible Web Design

University of Saskatchewan Web Tutorials
Free and self-guided. Here is a sampling of tutorials offered

  • Introduction to HTML
  • Designing a Web Site
  • Making Web Pages Accessible to All
  • Cascading Style Sheets
  • HTML Tables Seminar
  • Using Imagemaps
  • An Introduction to JavaScript
  • Streaming Media Using RealSystem
  • Putting Databases on the Web

IBM's Tutorial on User Interface Design
Great information here -- web guidelines, user-centered design, human-computer interaction

Free Handouts from ThunderLizard Conferences
Great stuff for free! Features web design, advertising, Quark Xpress, Photoshop, and web marketing.

Adobe's Classroom in a Book
U.S. educators can download PDF files of Classroom in a Book lessons. All you need to do is register as an educator, accept a licensing agreement, and then start downloading. New titles include Photoshop 6.0, Illustrator 9.0, GoLive 5.0, LiveMotion, and FrameMaker 6.0.

Adobe Web Center Tutorials
Tutorials on Acrobat, GoLive, Illustrator, LiveMotion, Photoshop, Creating Interactive Slideshows, Animating Photoshop Layers in LiveMotion

Conferences

lynda.com
Week-long classes in gorgeous Ojai, California. You'll be in a class with 15 people and will have your own computer (your choice of Mac or PC). You'll have one instructor plus 2 teaching assistants. Night-time labs give you plenty of time to ask questions and practice what you've learned. Affordable places to stay -- some with kitchens to save even more money. Classes on Dreamweaver, Flash, Adobe GoLive, Photoshop, and JavaScript.

Thunderlizard
Excellent conferences on Photoshop, Web Design, Web Advertising, Web Marketing, Dreamweaver, and Web Commerce. You'll leave with a 500-plus page handbook filled with speaker handouts. There's a "members-only" web site with updated information, too.

Classes at Vanderbilt

ITS
HTML Introduction workshop is one 3.5 hour session. Cost is $40. Topics covered include: basic markup tags, character formatting, linking to other documents, placing images, using color, accessing VUspace.

Classes in Nashville

New Horizons
Classes in Dreamweaver, FrontPage, HTML4, Photoshop

Nashville Tech
Classes in FrontPage, HTML, Web Application Development, Introduction to Digital Imaging, Unix, and Java. They also offer an HTML Training Certificate, which is delivered through a web-based training program. With this program, students go to Nashville Tech just once a semester to attend orientation and purchase materials.

Athena
Classes in Site Design and Methodology, E-Commerce Strategies & Practices, Web Authoring with HTML, Java Programming Fundamentals, Introduction to JavaScripting.

ExecuTrain
Web Site Designer series, Dynamic Server Pages, Database Specialist Series, Web Languages Series, HTML Authoring (beginning, intermediate, advanced), JavaScript Fundamentals, Perl Fundamentals, Server-Side Scripting and Security, Adobe GoLive, Fireworks 3 Advanced, FrontPage, NetObjects Fusion


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