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Harrel Signs with NY Times-Owned About.com
Camarillo, CA – March 2014: Communications Technology Watch (CommTechWatch.com) is pleased to announce that William Harrel has signed with New York Times-owned About.com to become one of the site’s “Experts”. As About.com’s new Printers & Scanners Expert, Harrel will (as he already does as Contributing Editor for Computer Shopper) cover all aspects of printer and scanner technologies,... [Read more]
New Intro to HTML5 Course at eClasses.org
We’re happy to announce commencement of a new six-week HTML5 course at eClasses.org, starting September 16, 2013. In this course we’ll look at HTML5 from a task-oriented perspective, by learning not only the HTML code for specific tasks, such as, say, formatting text, creating simple shapes or form fields, and so on, but also how to apply CSS3 and JavaScript to create real-world Web objects,... [Read more]
Introduction to Microsoft Excel at eClasses.org
One of the very first personal computer (PC) applications was the spreadsheet, and one of the first spreadsheet creation and editing programs was Microsoft Excel. Nowadays, Excel comes preinstalled on nearly every new Windows machine—PC, tablet, and smartphone—which constitutes about 90 percent of today’s computing device market, and a huge majority of businesses use Excel in one capacity or... [Read more]
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]
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