Intermediate Adobe Flash CS6 Course Announced

(Camarillo, CA, March 22, 2013) William Harrel and ed2go.com announce Intermediate Flash CS6, the follow-up course to Harrel’s popular Introduction to Flash CS6, launched earlier this year. When completed, a little later this year, the course will be offered at over 2,500 colleges and universities. If you have a basic understanding of Flash techniques and you’re eager to create more sophisticated... [Read more]

New Adobe Muse Course Launched

(Camarillo, CA – March 22, 2013) Journalist, author, and online course instructor William Harrel and eClasses (eClasses.org) have teamed up once again to announce a new online course. This time, the subject of the class will be Adobe’s new WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) Website design app, Muse. The first session starts on April 1, 2013 and you can sign up or get additional information... [Read more]

Introduction to Flash CS6 Launched

Flash has grown beyond its best known application, Web pages. Nowadays, Flash movies appear everywhere—the Internet, mobile devices, the cinema, TV shows and commercials, computer games. Using Flash, you can create a wide variety of file formats, including apps (iOS and Android), HTML5, and video that work on virtually any device. In this course, you’ll learn how to create animation, interactive... [Read more]

Introduction to Adobe Edge Animate Course

William Harrel’s latest online class, Introduction to Edge Animate Launches January 2013 Until recently, Web designers relied on Adobe Flash and other application-development programs for creating animated and interactive Websites. While this approach served us well for many years, it had its share of drawbacks and limitations—not the least of them being forcing site visitors to download huge... [Read more]

New Flash Professional CS6 Course at ed2go

We are happy to announce the latest installment of William Harrel’s popular Flash Professional courses at ed2go.com, scheduled to start sessions in early 2013. Take your graphics skills to a whole new level by adding Flash to your designer toolkit! In this course, you’ll learn how to create animated, interactive movies and mobile device apps in Adobe Flash CS6. These days, Flash movies and... [Read more]

New CSS3 Course at eClasses.org

Several years ago, cascading style sheets (CSS) revolutionized Web design. CSS freed Web designers from depending on woefully inadequate HTML tables to create highly stylized Web pages. It provided us with the means to format and reformat multiple pages from one single set of styles, thereby liberating us from the tedious task of formatting one page at a time. Enter CSS3, the next generation of Web... [Read more]

Hands-On With the GeForce 600M Series

Somebody woke up the giant. In desktop and laptop PCs, it’s been a quiet last couple of years for Nvidia, but the big graphics powerhouse isn’t keeping it down any longer. Nvidia’s big-splash news in early 2012 was its new-to-market, long-awaited revision of its graphics architecture, code-named “Kepler.” Touted since 2010, Kepler showed up in the company’s speed-monster... [Read more]

New Web Design Course 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 the mobile Web user do so at... [Read more]

William Harrel Named Computer Shopper CE

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, PC World, Windows Magazine, MacWorld, MacUser, and,... [Read more]

Published! Available Now! Hot Off the Press!

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, which most of us accessed through dial-up modems... [Read more]

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