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Hey all. Lynda.com is having some trouble with their system right now, so things are running impossibly slow. We've been in touch with them, though, and they expect things to be back to normal within a few hours. Sorry for any inconvenience!

Everything's Back to Normal now!

Lynda.com iPhone App

Lynda.com has finally come out with their long-awaited iPhone application. It's available for free in the App Store, but you need to be a subscriber to take advantage of the entire Lynda.com library. There are still certain training movies that are available for free, just as there are on the original website.

It offers both high (default) and low video quality depending on your connection speed. It does not seem to offer variable speed playback, which is one of my favorite features, and of course you're not going to get the same quality or size of video that you get on a 22" monitor over a high-speed ethernet connection, but at least you never need to worry about how to occupy your time the next time you're waiting for a bus. :)

Unfortunately, we can't log in to our accounts on your iPhone, but the good news is that Lynda.com subscriptions are still only $25/month, and is possibly the best money you will over spend on training.

Read more about it on their website.

Creating an Online Resume

Many of you will be looking for jobs soon (if you haven't started already). Lynda.com has an online training course on creating your own online resume. (Description below). You can see what the course includes at http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=760

If you'd like to watch it, just ask the lab consultant on duty to long you in to Lynda.com.

In Creating an Online Resume: Hands-On Training, interactive design professor and enthusiastic educator Laurie Burruss teaches how to produce an online resume—and create a first web site in the process. Laurie suggests structure and information needed to create a winning resume, and shows how to design the pages with simple typographic principles and effective layouts. She explains how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and control the design and structure of HTML documents through hands-on development. Exercise files with additional supporting materials accompany the course.

Topics include:

• Creating a simple text document for use inside Dreamweaver
• Formatting HTML tags with semantic or meaningful markup such as unordered and definition lists
• Externally linking a Cascading Style Sheet to a web page
• Creating and applying unique styles to XHTML documents using HTML tags, compound selectors, custom classes, and IDs
• Creating tiling background images in Fireworks
• Using the DIV tag in combination with CSS to create effective layouts that organize content
• Applying principles of web typography

Dreamweaver Training from Lynda

Lynda.com has some good Dreamweaver CS4 training now available. It's called, "Creating a First Web Site with Dreamweaver CS4" and it's great for the beginning Dreamweaver user or web designer. I'm a little rusty on my webdesign skills, myself, so I'm going to use it re-learn dreamweaver (I think the last version I used was MX!) and make myself a new website.

Take a look at the contents here:

http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourseN.aspx?lpk2=52770

and if you're interested, just let the lab consultant on duty know you'd like to watch it, and we'll log you in on one of our workstations and you can watch 'til your heart's content.