Master-class workshops and upcoming dates

Advanced CSS styling

Modern web browsers are now better capable of rendering advanced CSS than ever before. From highly targeted CSS selectors to new ways to work with layout, colour and typography, if you are a web designer or developer, working with CSS has never been more exciting.

‘Advanced CSS Styling’; is a unique one-day master class presented by Andy Clarke, designer and author of the best-selling Transcending CSS. Spend the day with Andy learning how to use the most up-to-date CSS techniques in your everyday work.

Building design on Microformats

Learn how Microformats can help you to quickly and easily integrate your web site content into web-based and desktop applications with little more than finely tuned, meaningful HTML or XHTML mark-up.

Designing for Mobile with CSS3 with Dan Rubin

The mobile web has never been more important — with devices like Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android OS and phone, the experience of using the web while on the go is finally good enough for users to adopt. Are you doing everything you can to ensure those users have an engaging experience tailored to their specific needs? In this comprehensive full-day workshop, interface and user experience designer Dan Rubin will teach you the key steps to transform your site for mobile users, from content strategy to CSS3 to device detection and optimization.

Designing web accessibility

If you thought that web accessibility is all about alt text, guidelines and restrictions on your creativity, this master class will change your mind forever and improve your web site and applications.

jQuery for Designers with Remy Sharp

You ’ve heard of jQuery, you know it ’s supposed to help you make beautiful things, but you don ’t do JavaScript and you don ’t know how all the pieces fit together to create your beautiful thing. This workshop will ease you in to adding jQuery to your projects. It will cover what jQuery has to offer and how you can make best use of it in your projects. You ’ll be learning jQuery from a practical point of view and you will quickly understand what you can use right out of the box, to quickly add effects and interactions to your wireframes, prototypes and web sites. The aim isn ’t to teach you JavaScript, but instead to teach you what you need to know to leverage jQuery to make the best work that you can for the web.

Meaningful mark-up for designers

This master-class will teach you the fundamentals of writing meaningful, accessible HTML and XHTML mark-up, an essential skill for modern web site designers and developers.