Workshops for Interactive Designers

If you’re an aspiring interactive designer, HOW U is the perfect place for you to find ongoing professional-level education. HOW U offers courses from the experts to learn WordPress, information architecture, and even more basic courses that give you an introduction to working on the web. Looking for something more advanced? Learn coding or choose from courses on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more.

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Adobe Dreamweaver for Intermediate Users

For those of us out there that have gotten their feet wet in Adobe Dreamweaver and are looking to take it further, this course is for you. It always happens, it seems. You start building websites, focusing on the basics, then you want to catapult your skills so that you can add the cool stuff you see out there on the web today to your site. The focus on this course is to do just that—build on the knowledge gained in the Introduction to Dreamweaver course, focusing on hot topics today like HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and more. In this course, you will explore features like working with a lot more CSS styling and Code Inspector, inserting tables for data, adding video content to your pages, HTML5 tags, inserting widgets like a slideshow, learning more about code view, responsive design using Fluid Grid Layouts (CS6 only), and much more. Learn More →

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An Introduction to Adobe Dreamweaver

This course will give you the tools necessary to start building your own website using Adobe Dreamweaver, the industry standard for website creation. You will learn from the ground up the right way to create a web page, including setting up a web page layout, adding and styling text and images, working with links, and testing and uploading your site. You’ll get an overview of the “what” and “why” of building a website as we jump into the “how” by using Adobe Dreamweaver. Learn More →

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Adobe Digital Publishing Suite for Intermediate Users

For those of us who are already creating apps using Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS), but want more, this course is for you. From adding HTML articles and smooth scrolling content, to more advanced interactivity like web content, panoramas, web fonts, how to show/hide content, animation, and more. Join instructor Brian Wood as he takes you through some of the more awesome interactive features that you see in existing apps that make you say, “How’d they do that?” This course builds on An Introduction to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, but that course is not required if you already have a basic understanding of DPS. Learn More →

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HTML/CSS Coding Bootcamp

If you want to learn how to code, but aren’t sure where to start, this week-long coding crash course on HTML and CSS is the place to do it. Each day of this intensive Bootcamp builds on itself, and is developed for those who learn best by getting hands-on. Learn More →

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PSD to HTML: The Missing Link of Web Design

In this course, instructor Chris Converse teaches you how to get hands-on with the aspects of HTML and CSS that allow you to realize your design vision, so that you no longer have to rely on developers to do it for you. By learning how to cut your own graphics and create the HTML and CSS files you provide to your web developers, you’ll regain control and enhance your understanding of web design and overall user experience for future projects. Learn More →

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Advanced WordPress

In this course, you’ll learn WordPress skills that will take you from novice, to expert. Jesse Friedman will begin with some foundational basics to get you started, and then will cover WordPress theming and industry best practices. Learn More →

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28 Days to Your First WordPress Site

You likely know it as a blogging platform, but WordPress has evolved into a full content management system and has been embraced by developers and designers all over the world. Building your website on WordPress can be simple and quick, or it can push the limits of your creativity through thousands of plugins, themes and widgets available for use with the system. Join Jesse Friedman on a journey to create your first WordPress site. In just 28 days, you’ll learn about server requirements and hosting, customization, resources available inside and outside of the WordPress community, functionality—and at the end you’ll have a site of your own. Learn More →

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Principles of Information Architecture

In this four-week design course, Brian Miller will give you a crash course on information architecture. He’ll take you through site map planning, wireframes, information hierarchy, and more. You’ll learn how to think about backgrounds, headers and footers, sidebars and features—everything that contributes to how intuitive a site is to navigate. You’ll see what works and why—and what to avoid. You’ll walk away with the ability to put yourself in the user’s shoes, and to think like an information architect. Learn More →