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Nadine was delighted to win our Twitter Re-Tweet competition!
At the end of last year we had a fantastic response to our Twitter Re-Tweet competition – the prize was a free place on any of our public training courses.
Our lucky winner was Nadine Burzler (@NadineBurzler) who works at Cactus Language Worldwide.
Nadine was delighted to win the competition and has chosen a free place on our 2-day Dreamweaver course as her prize. She also chose to extend this to come on the whole Web Design Week package, which includes our Web Design training and Web Graphics Photoshop Course.
When she told us why, we realised that there couldn’t have been a more worthy winner…
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Posted by Colin Welch in Competitions, News on January 7th, 2010| No Comments »
We’ve been providing Dreamweaver Training since it’s first release in 1997 and in that time we’ve seen Dreamweaver evolve to support a wide range of new scripting languages and functionality requirements as they’ve come to prominence.
Since the rise of Web 2.0 and, in particular, the increase in popularity of social networking, the ways we design, build and interact with websites have changed considerably. More and more websites now contain blogs, forums, polls and a host of other ways in which users can interact and generate their own content. We now offer a one day Social Media training course.
Programming this sort of functionality from scratch isn’t easy for beginners, and this has led to the rise in popularity of Content Management Systems (CMS) like WordPress and Joomla, which allow those with little or no programming knowledge to manage social sites and blogs effectively. To meet this demand we now offer Wordpress Training and Joomla Training. These open source tools are free and user friendly, leading some to suggest that WordPress could replace Dreamweaver altogether.
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Posted by Colin Welch in Social Media, Web Design on December 4th, 2009| 7 Comments »
Joomla is growing in popularity as an out of the box free CMS tool. It is becoming so popular in fact we have just launched a new Joomla Training course in addition to our popular Wordpress Training course (we also offer a one day course on Social Networking and course on Blogging). Should we all be thinking of abandoning Wordpress and jumping on the Joomla bandwagon? That depends on what you want, what you are capable of and if you will be maintaining your own site.
Should I use Joomla or Wordpress?
This article will show the pros and cons of each tool so that you can make an educated choice.
Wordpress
Wordpress is a really great blog creation tool. It makes simple tasks really easy like adding images, making pages and posts, managing comments etc. Installing it, running it, and publishing basic content with it is quick and simple. It is efficient and allows easy optimising for maximum search engine ranking (blog searchbots, ping /trackback/tag capability etc)
Joomla
Joomla, is geared towards portals and content management. It is extremely powerful and has much more capability than wordpress. It’s also much easier to go wrong with Joomla if you don’t know what you are doing. It demands more technical knowledge. If you want an image library or an extensive ecommerce site however you are going to need something more powerful than wordpress for the job. Joomla comes into it’s own when you require it to work with a custom database. Read the rest of "Joomla vs Wordpress comparison"
Posted by Heather Buckley in New Free Resources, Social Media, Web Design on November 23rd, 2009| 19 Comments »
More and more individuals and organisations are turning to a content management system (or CMS) to help them take control of their own web content, whilst retaining professional design and incorporating innovative applications. A CMS enables users who have no web design experience to contribute to and update a website on a regular basis, helping you to keep your content current and gain a competitive advantage.
One of the content management systems leading the field is Joomla! and Silicon Beach Training now offer a comprehensive 2-day Joomla Training Course to help you to take advantage of this powerful CMS.
The Joomla training course is available on a private basis, and can be arranged either here at our Brighton training centre, or on-site at your own premises. All of our tutors are experienced web developers, and we can tailor course content to meet your objectives.
For further information about the Joomla course, or would like to arrange a booking, please call us on 01273 622272 or e-mail info@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk
Posted by Alistair Wylie in News, Web Design on November 6th, 2009| 1 Comment »
Want a free place on one of our public training courses? Fancy something creative like Photoshop Training or Dreamweaver Training, something practical like Time Management Training or brush up on something more technical like VBA for Excel Training. A full list of public courses can be found on our training dates page (only courses with a maximum duration of two days can be claimed as your prize)
Enter our simple retweet competition on Twitter to be in with a chance!
It’s Really Easy to Enter
The only thing you have to do is to Retweet our competition invite on twitter.
RT: Win Free Training – @SBTTraining is giving it away! Visit http://bit.ly/2sCAJh for more info!
(click on this for an easy retweet)
Just make sure your tweet contains our Twitter name (@SBTTraining so we can track you as a contestant) and a link to this blog post (of which http://bit.ly/2sCAJh is a short version)
We will DM the winner so make sure you follow us @SBTTraining.
That’s all you have to do. See? Entering is very easy!
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Posted by Heather Buckley in Brighton, Competitions, News, Offers, Social Media on November 2nd, 2009| 4 Comments »
Getting stuck with Dreamweaver CS4? Then check out our brand new FREE Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial, which is now available in our ever expanding Free Training Resources section.
The step-by-step guide is designed so that you can follow it in its entirety, or you can dip in to the most relevant sections to brush up on anything you’re having problems with. Just use the drop-down menus in the side-bar navigation. Happy Dreamweaving!
For a really comprehensive guide to building professional websites with Dreamweaver CS4, we also offfer a great range of hands-on instructor led training courses, including Dreamweaver (2-days) and Advanced Dreamweaver (1-day). For a great introduction to Web Design using Adobe’s industry standard tools, there’s still no better place to start than our Web Design Week training package.
Posted by Colin Welch in New Free Resources, Web Design on October 1st, 2009| 1 Comment »
