New Web Design Course at eClasses.org

Mobile Web Design at eClasses.org Communications Technology Watch is happy to announce a new course on mobile design at the popular online school eClasses.org. The course covers Web design, but from the perspective of designing for mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. We’ll look at creating HTML, CSS and JavaScript for handhelds. Companies, individuals and organizations that ignore... [Read more]

William Harrel Named Computer Shopper CE

William Harrel named Computer Shopper Contributing Editor Communications Technology Watch is happy to announce that William Harrel has been named Contributing Editor for the popular online magazine and buyers’ guide Computer Shopper. Harrel has a long history of writing about information technology, going back to the industry’s glory days, when monthly paper magazines–Computer Magazine,... [Read more]

Windows 8 First Look – An All New Look

Will Windows 8 make Windows usable on tablets? Microsoft released a Developers Preview build of Windows last week. William Harrel and Computer Shopper were all over it. We wanted to know if it will improve the way Windows will run on tablets. Windows 7′s current implementation is clunky and unresponsive. The new Windows 8 is all about apps and completely reworked interface similar to the recently... [Read more]

Published! Available Now! Hot Off the Press!

HTML, CSS and JavaScript Development for Dummies If, nearly 20 years ago, when I first started designing Web sites, you’d have told me I’d be writing a book about designing World Wide Web pages for cell phones, I’d have told you to lay off the crack. In those days, cell phones did nothing other than make and receive calls. (Besides, very few people could afford them.) The Internet,... [Read more]

Intermediate Flash CS5 & CS4 Courses Launched

Intermediate Flash CS5 Course Launched at ed2go The long-awaited Intermediate Flash CS5 and Intermediate Flash Cs4 courses at ed2go.com will be launched at over 2,500 colleges and universities on June 15, 2011. This is the sequel to William Harrel’s immensely popular Introduction to CS4 and Introduction to CS5 courses offered by ed2go for the past two years. These courses expand on the introductory... [Read more]

New SpineCenter.com Launched

Ultra modern new medical Website February 4, 2011: We are pleased to announce the debut of the totally redesigned SpineCenter.com, home of Dr. Chiu and the California Spine Institute and Medical Center. SpineCenter.com was our first Website design project. We had limited skills and limited technology at our disposal. Still, we thought it was one most beautiful and most technologically advanced... [Read more]

Introduction to Adobe Flash Course Launched

Introduction to Flash Course at ed2go The much anticipated launch of William Harrel’s Introduction to Flash CS5 was announced at over 2500 colleges and universities this last Monday, January 11th, 2011. The wait is finally over.  Hundreds of students have taken Harrel’s tremendously successful Introduction to Adobe Flash CS4 course and they continuously rave about how well -written the... [Read more]

Mobile HTML, CSS and JavaScript Development for Dummies

HTML, CSS and JavaScript Development for Dummies If, nearly 20 years ago, when I first started designing Web sites, you’d have told me I’d be writing a book about designing World Wide Web pages for cell phones, I’d have told you to lay off the crack. In those days, cell phones did nothing other than make and receive calls. The Internet, which most of us accessed through dial-up... [Read more]

William Harrel Computer Shopper Reviewer

Computer Shopper Epson WorkForce 520 Review: Communications Technology Watch is happy to announce that William Harrel has begun reviewing printers for the popular online magazine and buyers’ guide Computer Shopper. Harrel has a long history of writing about information technology, going back to the industry’s glory days, when monthly paper magazines–Computer Magazine, PC World, Windows... [Read more]

Ed2Go Introduction to Flash CS5 Underway

Yes, creating Websites is fun and rewarding work. And nothing is more fun and rewarding than creating Flash Websites, or other Flash applications, such as online movies or training courses. Nowadays, learning to use Flash is a must for student Website and Web application designers. The Flash CS4 course at Ed2Go was so well-received that I am feverishly working to crank out a CS5 course. The name... [Read more]

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