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Now that the Christmas festivities have finished and the New Years Eve hangover has fully worn off, a certain sense of deflation seems to have settled over the UK. No one’s got any money, there’s no celebrations left to look forward to and the emphasis is very much on cutting back on the booze, getting to the gym and getting early nights. However, even if you are currently in a state of detox, there’s no need to be glum because spring is just around the corner and there’s a whole range of spring festivals and events in Sussex to look forward to.
Why not learn a new skill this spring? It could be the most exciting thing you do this year! If you’re thinking of a career move in 2012, want to dust off some old skills, pick up that new talent you’ve been thinking about for a while or even flourish in your current role then training courses are the best way to start. If you want to get your creative juices flowing then our Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator courses are all perfect. If you want to take the web by storm then our Web Design courses are all tailored to different skill levels and SEO and Social Media are both important as well. If you are looking further up the career ladder or want some help in the corporate environment our range of Business and Management training courses are all very useful. We run everything from Management Skills Training and Leadership Training to accredited PRINCE2 and Six Sigma Training. Spring is not just for learning though! In your time off why not attend some of these great events…
Sussex Beer Festival takes place on 8-10 March and if you’re having a bit of a dry month at the moment then this is something to really look forward to. The festival has around 230 beers on offer, including a range of British and foreign beers, as well as other mouthwatering tipples, such as ciders, perries and wines. Tickets cost between £4 and £7, depending on the day you go, and include a free souvenir glass and programme.
Beer by Tim Dobson on Flickr
2012 sees the 45th Brighton Festival taking place between 7 and 29 May, guest directed by Vanessa Redgrave, and celebrating themes of liberty and freedom. The festival is an important annual event for the town and is the largest multi-art form festival in England. You can expect to find a broad selection of dance, music, art and film on the programme and a wide range of events for all the family. Read the rest of "Spring Festivals & Events in Sussex"
Posted by Guest Author in Brighton, Guest Blogs, News, Personal Development on January 24th, 2012| No Comments »
Brighton-based car share website Catch-a-ride have just launched their photography competition and it is being judged by Silicon Beach Training‘s co-founder and photographer, Heather Buckley.
Catch-a-ride is set up to encourage people to car share by connecting drivers and passengers. This is a great idea to reduce travel costs, emissions and traffic!
Read more about the competition at Catch-a-ride’s blog or we’ve provided all the info below…
The Competition
The competition theme is ‘Car Share’ so send in your most interesting photo of people car sharing for a chance to win a fantastic prize. You can interpret that as you like but the most interesting one wins! Just don’t break the law of the road or your entry will be discounted.
The Prize
Up for grabs is a 16-megapixel Nikon Coolpix compact camera, perfect for taking more photos of your car sharing adventures!
The Rules
1) Only UK residents may enter
2) All entries must show a car share journey but must not include any activities that go against road safety
3) By entering, you agree that www.catcharide.co.uk may use your photo on their website. Photos will not be used for any other purpose.
4) Photos must be in JPEG format and a maximum of 1MB.
The Entry
To enter, send your car share photo to: contact@catcharide.co.uk
The Closing Date
All entries must be in by 15th March 2012. Read the rest of "Car Share Photo Competition"
Posted by Heather Buckley in Brighton, Competitions, News, Photography on January 19th, 2012| No Comments »
So you’re thinking about coming down to Brighton for some training. Perhaps for our Mobile App Design courses? (We’re one of a handful of mobile training centres in the country) Or for our fantastic and ever popular SEO Training, Photoshop Training or PRINCE2 Training courses? If you’ve never been to Brighton before and want to train somewhere different to London (who hasn’t been to London before?) then have a read of this guest post that runs through many of the wonderful reasons to visit Brighton. We thoroughly recommend making the most of the city either side of your training and sample everything it has to offer. Check out our Top 12 places to eat lunch in Brighton and plan where to eat while you’re down here!
Britain has traditional seaside resorts and cosmopolitan cities. It has destinations that are individually historic, cultural, offbeat, fashionable, entertaining and picturesque. And then there’s Brighton. If one city could be described as more than the sum of its parts, it has to be the exhilarating and ever-surprising Brighton. A settlement on Britain’s south coast since the Middle Ages, Brighton’s popularity flourished in Victorian times thanks to the advent of the railway and the emerging notion among the moneyed middle-class that bathing in seawater was beneficial to health. Rapidly developing and expanding in response to its new status as a desireable holiday destination, Brighton has never looked back.
Part of the secret of Brighton’s undeniable and enduring year-round appeal is the city’s quirkiness and carefree ambience. Brighton gives the impression that ‘anything goes’ which makes it accessible and enjoyable for every visitor regardless of their personal tastes or circumstances. Families, couples, celebrities, city slickers and country bumpkins are all equally warmly-welcomed in Brighton and all will find plenty to amuse and entertain them here. Unashamedly multicultural and multigenerational, Brighton’s denizens are as varied and colourful as the city itself and contribute to its harmonious and vibrant atmosphere. Read the rest of "All Things Brighton Beautiful"
Posted by Guest Author in Brighton, News on January 9th, 2012| No Comments »
Our offices will be closed from 24th December until 3rd January. Please continue to send us your enquires and we will get in touch as soon as possible in the New Year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from everyone at Silicon Beach Training in Brighton, hope to see you in 2012!
The time between Christmas and New Year is a great time to think about learning a new skill in 2012. We predict big things for mobile development this year and believe our Android and iPhone App development courses will be hugely popular as everyone looks to join the mobile revolution.
We also offer a full range of creative courses. There is something for everyone, whether you want to improve your photo editing skills with Photoshop Training, you are a budding designer who wants to get to grips with InDesign Training or you want to enter the world of Internet Marketing with SEO Training, Social Media Training and Google Analytics Training.
Don’t forget we also run business oriented skills with accredited PRINCE2, Scrum, Agile and ITIL courses running throughout the year as well as soft skills training including Management Skills, Leadership Skills and Business and Personal Development Training.
Hope you have a great Christmas!
Posted by Craig Charley in Brighton, News on December 23rd, 2011| No Comments »
As usual Silicon Beach Training develops training to meet industry demands, providing the new media industry with the tools required to compete in a constantly evolving market. Don’t get left behind – enrol on one of our mobile development training courses with iPhone App Training and Android Training now available.
As each day passes smart phones integrate themselves deeper and deeper into the lives of people all over the world. Long gone are the days of just making calls on your phone, now web browsing, emailing, social networking and navigation are all key features used by today’s modern phone user.
Customisation is a key advantage to owning a smart phone, with thousands of downloadable apps, both free and for purchase, available to tailor your phone to your life. There’s an app for almost everything!
The two key players in the smart phone OS market are undoubtedly Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android, with Android overtaking iPhone sales by 2 to 1 over the summer. Android also has the new smart phone owners market pinned down, being purchased by 56% of first timers. One of the main points which has caused this surge surpassing the iPhone is down to Androids open source format, allowing it to be used by a wide variety of manufactures, thus offering a wide selection of handsets to the consumer at different price points making them more affordable compared to Apple’s iconic alternative. Read the rest of "Demand for Android training soars as Google pip Apple"
Posted by Daniel Twigg in Android Training, Brighton, iPhone Training, Mobile App Development, News, Web Design Training on December 7th, 2011| 1 Comment »
iOS 5 Development for iPad and iPhone Training
We are thrilled to announce the addition of our new iOS 5 App Development for iPad and iPhone training course here in Brighton. This is the latest course in our range of Mobile Development Courses, designed to prepare individuals and businesses for the mobile age.
Designed for programmers, the new 5-day iPhone Training course provides delegates with everything they need to know to design and develop Apps for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch using the new iOS5 SDK (Software Development Kit).
The programme is a hands on workshop led by an award-winning iOS App developer, with real-world experience developing successful games and utilities that are currently available in the App Store. Because we only use experienced developers who are designing Apps right now our courses are guaranteed to be up-to-date.
The workshops are hands on – we provide each delegate with a 21.5″ iMac to use during the course with the SDK and emulators ready installed. We also provide full course materials and example files. So just bring along your iPhones and iPads for app testing.
When is the iPhone Training Course Available?
As the iOS5 has only just arrived, and includes significant changes from iOS 4 for developers – the new iPhone App development course will be available from Q1 2012 – as our trainers are currently busy updating the training material.
Our first 5-day iOS 5 Course will be running on 6th-10th February 2012.
Course fees are £1,200 + vat per delegate, and we expect places to book up FAST.
Who is the iOS 5 Course For?
The iPhone App Development Training course is intensive and gets delegates coding with Objective-C, it is therefore aimed at developers with experience using a modern Object-Oriented Programming language such as Ruby on Rails, Python, C++, C# or Java
If you are not sure whether you have sufficient experience to to take the iOS 5 course, please call our office on 01273 622272 and one of our training managers will be happy to answer your questions.
Read the rest of "NEW iOS App Training: App Development for iPad and iPhone"
Posted by Alistair Wylie in Brighton, iPhone Training, Mobile App Development, News on November 14th, 2011| No Comments »
Tate Modern by Heather Buckley
Our new Street Photography Competition gives you a chance of winning onOne Software’s superb Perfect Photo Suite - more details on this great prize can be found below.
The ‘Street’ theme is open to your own interpretation, just get your feet on the street and start snapping!
If you are after some inspiration have a look at Eric Kim’s work, Eric is a well known and respected Street Photographer from LA.
The successful winner will also gain lots of exposure through our Twitter and Facebook accounts. Follow us on Twitter to see if you’re mentioned as our own weekly favourite entry! It’s worth following Heather on Google+ too (the photographer of the image above).
Note – our Twitter mentions don’t necessarily mean you’ve been shortlisted – our Judge Eric Kim will be choosing the winner, more info on him below… Read the rest of "Competition – Street Photography"
Posted by Aaron Charlie in Brighton, Competitions, News, Photography, Photoshop on October 3rd, 2011| 5 Comments »
Call 01273 622272 or e-mail alistair@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk to book your places early!
Back in 1999 we were one of the first training companies to offer web design training. At that time a lot of businesses still didn’t have websites – web designers were charging a fortune for their services and were always off snowboarding!
The advent of the web was a step change for all businesses – and our Web Design Week package (incorporating our Web Design, Dreamweaver and Photoshop for Web Graphics courses) helped our clients to take control of their websites instead of outsourcing everything to developers. The package is still popular with newcomers to web design.
Fast forward 12 years and we’re seeing another major step change in the way people access the web – MOBILE!
Most phones can access the web now – and the use of smartphones with proper web browsers is exploding. Browsing from mobile devices is set to outstrip desktop browsing within the next couple of years. Our own Google Analytics reports show that our mobile traffic is up 230% in the last year – for more detail on this read our latest post on Mobile Web Design.
Is your website mobile friendly?!
Think about what the figures above might mean for your business… In the near future, more than half of your users might be visiting your website from their phone – and what are they going to see?
If your competitors’ websites render perfectly on their mobiles and yours is unreadable – who are they going to call or e-mail first?
Thankfully – our new Mobile Web Design Course package is here to help! Aimed at those who already have basic web design skills (including HTML and CSS) – our new week long package provides a comprehensive overview of the design considerations and main technologies you will need to understand to whip your site in to shape for mobile users.
What’s in the new Mobile Web Design Week?
Read the rest of "New Mobile Web Design Training Package"
Posted by Alistair Wylie in Brighton, Mobile App Development, News, Web Design Training on September 29th, 2011| 1 Comment »
