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New Year’s Resolution — Learn More!

What better New Year’s resolution than adding to your skillset? Not only will you be more productive—you’ll also earn more money! Our Web Design and Web Development certificates offer an opportune way to increase your marketability. Already know the fundamentals? Add new skills such as Mobile & Responsive Web Design, PHP, or Keynote to your arsenal. Advance your education through day, evening, or Saturday classes. You CAN do better in 2013!

Schedule

New Paid Seminar: Code Faster!

Did you know there are faster ways to code? If you’re not using a CSS preprocessor like SASS, Emmet (formerly Zen Coding) or Sublime Text (a code editor), you should be! These tools can greatly speed up your coding with less typing. Every web developer needs to know these. Let us show you how to dramatically speed up your development. $50. Monday, January 28, 6–8pm.

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Review a Workbook, Get a T-Shirt!

Our latest workbooks are up on Amazon, and we could use some reviews. Review a book, email us by replying to this email, let us know which book you reviewed, and which T-shirt you would like!

Review It!

Help Wanted at Noble Desktop

Noble Desktop needs help in a few areas:

Managing Editor — we need someone who can manage the production of our books. Duties include hiring writers, transcribers, and testers; testing books yourself; and managing all production. Editorial and computer graphic background required!

Back-End Web Developer — we need a dynamo who can port our site from ColdFusion to Ruby on Rails. We’ll be scaling our site up soon and need a steady captain for the journey. Someone who can help us create a Rails curriculum would be great.

Jack of All Trades — we need someone who can do it all: test workbooks; write exercises; design and create graphics; help market Noble Desktop; and handle social media. We’re resally looking for a sharpie to help out with everything. What you don’t know we’ll teach you.

Testers/Transcribers — we need people who will transcribe instructions from videos created by instructors, in order to create workbooks for future classes. Aside from transcribing, there will also be a lot of workbook testing. This could be part- or full-time.

PHP Instructor — we need a PHP instructor for either day, evening, and weekend classes.

To apply for any of these positions please reply to this email with an introduction and resume. Thanks!

Free Seminar: Intro to Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is one of the most powerful graphic applications, but is also one of the hardest to learn. Let us show you how to start approaching this beauty of an application. Wednesday, January 16, 3–5pm or 6–8pm.

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Free Seminar: How to Get Started in Web Design

In this seminar we’ll create an entire website using HTML/CSS, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks. We’ll explain what you need to know as we do it, then upload the site to the web! Join us as we demystify the process on Thursday, Jan 3, 6–8pm.

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ONLINE Seminar: Roadmap to a Career in Web Design & Digital Media

What skills/programs do you need to learn to become a web designer, a web developer, or a digital publisher? This seminar is designed to show you the path to your career goals, whether by taking classes or free tutorials. Wednesday, Jan 9, 3–5pm ET.

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Testimonial of the Fortnight

I think this is a really great course for an advanced beginner like myself. Noble Desktop covered a wide range of tools in a nicely paced tempo. I feel like I advanced my experience with the program a really healthy amount during the course.”

Bridget Auerbach

Project Manager, Business Development, Splashlight

December 14, 2012

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