Best Practices in Web Development Instruction

Hot off the presses at WebDesignPress is our latest ebook, Best Practices in Web Development Instruction. This ebook includes helpful tips and information for educators in web design and development. Many of the best practices can be translated for use by web designers when educating their clients.

In this guide you’ll find best practices on how to get started with students, how to engage students and connect with them in ways that enhance their learning (and your enjoyment), plus a whole slew of practical tips to help you deal with the nitty gritty parts of teaching web design.

Special thanks go to the educators and team members who contributed to this ebook: Benjamin Bradley, Cherish Flieder, Christy Sooter, Kathy Gill, Steve Cunningham, Tami Frascht, Kevin Hendricks, Nina East, Kristen Wright, and Brad Ulrich.

Learn more about the iThemes Education Program Beta, as well as our Student Edition of the Web Designer’s ToolKit.

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Multiple Utilizations of Drupal

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Japan’s NEC Corporation Cutting 10,000 Jobs

Japan’s NEC Corporation has announced plan for major job cuts. Reuters reports that NEC will cut 10,000 jobs, which is about 10% of its workforce. Reuters says the company is blaming part of its poor smartphone sales on the popularity of the iPhone in Japan.



NEC’s operating income was down 13.5% for the three months ending December, 31. You can see NEC latest financial results here. Reuters says NEC is warning of a big $1.3 billion loss for the year ending March, 2012. NEC also reduced its forecasted smartphone sales by 5 million.



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New Training Scheduled Jan. 13 with Lisa Sabin-Wilson

Due to a family emergency, Benjamin Bradley will not be able to teach the WordPress Developers Course regularly scheduled for Jan. 13-15. It has been officially cancelled and will be rescheduled shortly. (Emails will go out to members when that new date is set.)

For those of you not on the webinar today, Benjamin’s father is in grave condition and he had to fly back to D.C. to be with his family. Please keep Benjamin and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Since the WP Dev Course has been cancelled and will be rescheduled, Lisa has graciously offered to pinch hit and offer training for Friday, Jan. 13.

Here’s what we’re going to be doing tomorrow:

• We will use the same registration link as the previously setup webinar for the Dev Course …
• Starting at 9 a.m. Central Standard Time (as scheduled) Lisa will be talking about BuddyPress most of the morning.
• Break for lunch (probably around noon)
• After lunch, starting around 1 p.m. (and know that times may change so be flexible) we will be doing Q&A with Lisa and our theme and plugin dev teams.
• Post your Q&As here on this post please!!!!
• We will end likely around 4 p.m.

Key questions you might have:

• Yes, we will be live streaming via webinar
• Yes, we will be recording and posting the workshop today and tomorrow’s to the membership area along with slides early next week.
• Saturday and Sunday sessions are cancelled and will be rescheduled.
• Customers will be sent emails when the WP Dev Course dates have been set (likely in a month from now)

Thank you for being the kind and patient community you constantly prove to be. And in the meantime, again, please remember Benjamin and his family in your thoughts and prayers.

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How To: Add a Map to WordPress: Plugins, Examples & Advice

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Stump the Professor – This Thursday, 11am CT

Join Benjamin Bradley on Thursday, December 29th at 11am Central Time for a chance to ask all your hardest WordPress and web design questions. We’ve opened this extremely popular webinar – “Stump the Professor” – to the entire WordPress community!

There are no pre-requisites or requirements for this one hour webinar…other than to come ready to learn.
Save your seat here: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/254665066.

Interested in attending the private, members’-only webinars at a 25% discount? Just use coupon code WEBDESIGN25 before the end of 2011 to save 25% on any level of membership at WebDesign.com.

Prefer to learn live and in-person? You can use the same coupon code, WEBDESIGN25 to save 25% on your live registration at each of the LIVE Training events in January, February, and March…but you need to use it before December 31st to get your savings.

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Top 50 Photoshop Tutorials of 2011

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Three LIVE Training Events From WebDesign.com

The training elves at WebDesign.com have been hard at work putting together outstanding web developer trainings for 2012. The first three of the year are posted and available for registration now.

January 12-15, 2012 – The Premier WordPress Developer Course LIVE with Add-On Training Day on WordPress Multisite

February 17-18, 2012 – The iThemes Builder Bonanza LIVE Training

March 30-31, 2012 – The Plugin Palooza LIVE Training

As you’ve come to expect with all WebDesign.com training, these events will give you hands-on practical skills and tools you can implement immediately to enhance your web design and development, provide an even higher level of service and design complexity for your clients, and increase your bottom line.

You can attend these events live and in person (our recommendation for even greater collaborative learning with your peers) or streaming via the internet for your convenience.

All LIVE Events are offered The <Div>, the non-profit tech community hub dedicated to innovation, creativity and training for a better Oklahoma…right around the corner from the iThemes World Headquarters. It’s a great training space, but the classroom size requires us to limit  our LIVE Event registrations. Space truly is limited, so if you’re thinking about attending, grab your seats now.

Pick one, two, or all three trainings!

(Remember, if you have the Web Designer’s ToolKit , you receive a 50% discount on LIVE Event registrations. WebDesign.com members benefit from a 30% discount. Just log in to WebDesign.com and navigate to the specific registration tab(s) on the LIVE Event pages to unlock your secret savings discount. )

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Using the Healing Tools to Retouch Skin: Photoshop Tutorial

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HP to Make WebOS Open Source

HP has announced it will make webOS open source. The operating system is used on the HP TouchPad, which became a hot item after HP discounted the tablet to just $99 last this summer.



Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer, said in a statement, “webOS is the only platform designed from the ground up to be mobile, cloud-connected and scalable. By contributing this innovation, HP unleashes the creativity of the open source community to advance a new generation of applications and devices.”



HP says it will engage the open source community to help define the charter of the open source project under a set of operating principles:

• The goal of the project is to accelerate the open development of the webOS platform
  
• HP will be an active participant and investor in the project
  
• Good, transparent and inclusive governance to avoid fragmentation
  
• Software will be provided as a pure open source project
  

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