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You can save up to $100 by buying a package of webinars at a time. The descriptions below list the basics about the webinars in each series. Click on the title of each webinar to get more information. Click on a Curriculum Package title to register for that Package.

List of Curriculum Packages for
January – April 2012:

 

CSS For Designers (3 Webinars)

As more and more content moves onto the web and onto mobile devices with eBooks, learning about CSS (cascading style sheets)—which is used by both— becomes an essential skill for designers and production people. This series will cover the basics of CSS.

 

Learning CSS, Part 1: HTML and CSS

When you begin to work with CSS, it is important to understand what it is we’re styling. HTML is what we are targeting with CSS, and we’ll cover the basic principles of HTML, including the box model that is associated with HTML. Armed with the knowledge of this relationship, we’ll begin to uncover the various aspects of web design that can be manipulated with CSS. This session is useful for users of Dreamweaver MX2004 through CS5.5.

Thursday, Jan 26

 

Learning CSS, Part 2: Sprites, Positioning and Ajax

With the relationship of HTML and CSS under our belts from part 1, we'll explore using CSS to gain greater control over element placement, and control each element's relationship to other elements on the page. In addition, using sprites will allow us to reuse aspects of our markup and imagery to create more compelling user experiences. This session is useful for users of Dreamweaver CS3 through CS5.

Thursday, Feb 2

 

Learning CSS, Part 3: What's Coming in CSS3

CSS3 is on the way! Many web browsers and mobile devices have begun supporting many of the amazing CSS3 capabilities that are being called for in the latest specification. Among them is support for animation, lots of new pseudo-classes, and even device-specific rules. Join us to explore how CSS3 will change future of web design.

Thursday, Feb 9

     
 

Expert Tips (4 Webinars)

The CS Magic faculty includes some of the best trainers in the business. In this series they will share their favorite tips and techniques about the Adobe Creative Suite applications that you use.

 

Sandee Cohen's InDesign Tips

Sandee Cohen is the only third-party author to have written educational materials for all versions of Adobe InDesign. She digs deep into her trunk of power-user tips and tricks for working with InDesign. Even if you've been working with InDesign for a while, you'll definitely learn much from this fast-paced seminar. From layout to text to workspaces, discover some of Sandee's secrets.

Thursday, Feb 16

 

Steve Werner's Interactivity Tips

Steve Werner has been using and teaching InDesign since version 1. In recent years, he has specialized in showing users how to move beyond print output and add interactivity to Adobe InDesign to create dynamic PDF and SWF files. In this session, he'll pull from the bag of tips and techniques he has developed for adding hyperlinks, buttons, slide shows, video and sound, and more to create a compelling presentation.

Thursday, Feb 23

 

Claudia McCue's Photoshop Tips

Claudia McCue specializes in teaching both creative and production professionals. Her national client base includes printers, design firms, agencies and in-house marketing departments. She is the author of "Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications" (Peachpit Press, 2009), and a frequent presenter at graphic arts conferences. As a true Photoshop expert, she has some timeless techniques that can speed up your production and make it easier.

Thursday, Mar 8

 

April Clark's Illustrator Tips

A consultant and trainer for web and print professionals, April Clark specializes in helping graphic designers get the most of out applications like Illustrator. In this session, she'll show you parts of this deep application that will make you more productive..

Thursday, Mar 8

     
 

New Adobe Technologies (3 Webinars)

In a fast changing world where we're quickly moving toward viewing content on mobile devices, we need to find new and more ways to create that content expressively and effectively. Adobe has recently introduced or previewed some important new technologies to do just that.

 

Introducing Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

Adobe released the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite in 2011 to let tablet users (like those who have the iPad) work with interactive content in a magazine or publication format. Examples of publications using this technology include WIRED, Reader's Digest and Martha Stewart Living. You can use the tools provided to work within InDesign CS5 and 5.5 to create interactivity that responds to gestures—for example, flipping through a slide show, panning images, rotating objects 360 degrees, and more.

Thursday, Mar 22

 

Introducing Adobe Edge

In August 2011, Adobe released a preview of its upcoming Adobe Edge software. This is a new web development tool that makes it easy to create animations and interactive websites with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. These three technologies are beginning to add the interaction and multimedia we've come to expect from the web without forcing users to download plug-ins like Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight. It's new technology and it's moving quickly to stay ahead of evolving web standards, but it will change the way we create and view animations on desktop computers, tablet devices, and smartphones.

Thursday, Mar 29

 

Introducing Adobe Muse

Adobe Muse has been released as a public beta. It lets designers create websites in a visual way in the same way they create pages for print. Sharing an interface similar to InDesign, it lets you design and publish HTML pages using the latest web standards but without writing code.

Thursday, Apr 5

     
 

Acrobat Techniques (3 Webinars)

Adobe Acrobat Pro is one of the essential applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. Yet most people don't begin to grasp its power and usefulness. We'll show you techniques that will enhance your publishing workflows and save time and money.

 

Acrobat PDF Creation and Editing Techniques

Acrobat is one of the workhorse applications for designers and production people. If we learn its full capabilities we can enhance our publishing workflows and save both time and money. In this webinar, we'll learn some powerful techniques for creating and editing PDF files. We'll learn where its features are hidden, and how to use them.

Thursday, Apr 12

 

Acrobat Collaboration Techniques

Adobe offers many ways for you to collaborate — either with other designers or with your clients. Adobe Acrobat Pro has the ability to do shared reviews with clients by preparing PDF files for Comment and Markup. You have the ability to Share your Screen directly from any of the Creative Suite applications (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.), using www.acrobat.com. Now, as part of the latest CS Live features in Adobe Creative Suite 5, there is a new service called CS Review. Join us in this session to learn the differences between each of these collaboration techniques and discover the best way for you to collaborate with others.

Thursday, Apr 19

 

Acrobat Print Production Techniques

Acrobat is an essential application for a print production workflow. With Acrobat 9 and X, anyone who creates a document designed for commercial printing should learn its features for working with PDF/X standards, viewing how a file will print, and if necessary making changes to the PDF file.

Thursday, Apr 26

 
 
 

CSS For Designers Curriculum Package

$199 (save $38)
$169 if registered by Jan 19 (save $68)
$149 with partner discount code (save $88)

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Expert Tips
Curriculum Package

$269 (save $47)
$229 if registered by Feb 9 (save $87)
$199 with partner discount code (save $117)

Register Here

 

New Adobe Technologies
Curriculum Package

$199 (save $38)
$169 if registered by Mar 15 (save $68)
$149 with partner discount code (save $88)

Register Here

 

Acrobat Techniques Curriculum Package

$199 (save $38)
$169 if registered by Apr 5 (save $68)
$149 with partner discount code (save $88)

Register Here

 

Other Curriculum Packages to come!
At CS Magic, we believe that many subjects are best learned together, which is why we offer curriculum packages.

Packages vary in length and in content, but all relate to a specific area of interest.

Check back here often to see what's available!