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Workshop Catalog
Here's the full menu of everything Fenixworks is currently offering.
Everything we teach is cross-platform. This means that it doesn't matter if you are using Windows or a Macintosh, what you learn here will work on either.
Click on the workshop title or the little blue triangle next to the title to see a brief description of the workshop.
A La Carte Workshops
A La Carte workshops use a variety of software packages to complete a specific task. They cover things like blogging, or online marketing, and show how to use a variety of tools to get the job done.
Search engines are the most powerful form of advertising today. How often do you use Google, Yahoo or MSN? Learn how the search engines make decisions about websites and leave the class with twelve solid ideas to help you get the results you want. More Info/Schedule
Learn the tips and tricks to make iTunes scream on your computer. And we mean scream in a good way! Smart playlists, setting metadata, syncing to your iPod and iPhones, it's all covered here by people who actually use iTunes and its various connections every day to manage thousands of songs and videos. You'll be a power user in no time. Well, ok, in two hours, all for the price of an iPod shuffle.
We are offering a special introductory price of $49 for this new workshop in August and September. Sign up while there's still space! More Info/Schedule
We are offering a special introductory price of $49 for this new workshop in August and September. Sign up while there's still space! More Info/Schedule
Learn how the search engines really work. You will leave the course with tools you can use to get your site noticed and highly-ranked on the search engines. Learn how to generate your list of key word combinations, build quality links and generally make the search engines LOVE your site. More Info/Schedule
Learn how to use Google's vast tools, including Gmail, Google Maps, RSS Reader and much more. This course is perfect for web users from beginner to advanced who want to learn how to use tools that make the internet more useful. More Info/Schedule
Google's recently released calendar application is one of the most powerful calendar systems available. And best of all, it is web-based, which means you can access it from any online computer. Learn how to maximize Google Calendar for your personal and business life. You can even have the calendar added to your website. More Info/Schedule
Learn how to use Google's sponsored links to increase targeted traffic to your website. Don't bother with people who want you to pay them to manage your sponsored link advertising - learn how to do it yourself! This course includes training on Google's free local results, too. Students who want to get the most out of the course should come ready to budget at least $50 toward advertising on Google, although all students are welcome. More Info/Schedule
Did you know that if you have a website, you could be earning passive income with Google ads? Learn how to set up Google ads on your site, how to control what appears on your site and how to read reports on your progress. More Info/Schedule
Want to really know how many people are visiting your site? Want to know how they get there, how long they stay and even where they live? Google's free analytics program can tell you all of this and you can log in to see your stats from any online computer. Come learn how to set up and use Google Analytics. More Info/Schedule
Learn how to become your own media channel. Learn about the technical and creative aspects of making a captivating show that people will want to habitually listen to every week. This class is for people with the passion to share their voice or for someone who needs to understand the technical challenges in managing and/or creating a podcast. This class is broken into 2 sessions with a homework assignment between meetings.
A maximum of 8 seats are available for this workshop. Sign up now to receive personalized training. More Info/Schedule
A maximum of 8 seats are available for this workshop. Sign up now to receive personalized training. More Info/Schedule
Learn the ins and outs of running your own blog. We'll show you how to set up and administer your blogspace using Wordpress. We'll teach you how to market your blog so that more people than just your friends and family are paying attention. We'll teach you the lingo so you'll understand RSS, pings and trackbacks. We'll also spend time exploring various plugins for photo galleries, tag libraries and other useful ways to extend your Wordpress installation. More Info/Schedule
Learn in one session how to set up Dreamweaver to edit your existing website. This workshop concentrates on how you can log into your site, back it up and change content - including text and images. We'll give you the skills you need to edit the sites you already have.
If you've inherited website maintenance when someone else quit, or your web contractor doesn't return your calls, or even if you were planning all along to have someone else do the design and let you keep up with the changes, this course is the one for you. More Info/Schedule
If you've inherited website maintenance when someone else quit, or your web contractor doesn't return your calls, or even if you were planning all along to have someone else do the design and let you keep up with the changes, this course is the one for you. More Info/Schedule
Blue Plate Workshops
Blue Plate Workshops cover training for specific software applications.
Learn essential skills for Adobe Photoshop CS3, the industry standard for working with digital photos and images. This 4 session workshops combines the four modules Intro, Crucial Selection Tools, Layers: The Nitty Gritty and Retouching. More Info/Schedule
Introduction to Flash CS3, the industry standard for creating animations, designing interactive websites. The training covers using the drawing and color tools, the essentials of timeline animation, and working with type, graphics, and sound, as well as a brief intro to actionscripting basics. More Info/Schedule
Learn how to be a power user with the popular web development application Dreamweaver. After completing this course, you will have the skills necessary to build and maintain websites using Dreamweaver's graphical editor interface. More Info/Schedule
Sometimes a spreadsheet just can't keep up with all the information you need. Learn to use FileMaker Pro's layouts, tables and scripts to manage your data in more than rows and columns. You can even use it to generate webpages and sites. That's what we did. All of the workshop descriptions and schedules on this site are managed in FileMaker Pro. More Info/Schedule
Intro to InDesign CS3, the best page layout program for designing posters, brochures, magazines, newsletters and books. This is what the pros use! For the novice, for the self-taught who want to fill in gaps in their knowledge, or for those who want to transition from PageMaker or Quark to this powerful professional tool which is the standard in the publishing industry. More Info/Schedule
Intro to Illustrator, the industry standard for logo design, illustration, brochures, and posters using vector graphics. In addition to its range of uses for illustration, Illustrator has no equal for handling type and using it in creative ways. Geared to both the novice and the self-taught who want to fill in gaps in their knowledge. Illustrator is a great stand-alone program, and makes a wonderful companion program for those who already know Photoshop and want to enlarge their knowledge of design software. It's a must for graphic designers. More Info/Schedule
Full Course Workshops
Sometimes you just gotta know how to make things work. This is the "under the hood" part of our catalog. Here we teach you to use common tools like text editors and terminal sessions to build, edit and understand websites. When you register for a Full Course Workshop series, you receive 3 months of web hosting at no extra charge.
Introduction to HTML and CSS. Get to know the code, learn how to work on basic pages that display images, and other content using only a text editor. Upon completion of this workshop, you will have a basic understanding of HTML and CSS source code and you will be able to run basic sites with confidence. More Info/Schedule
Learn to use JavaScript to make your pages more interactive. Set and Read cookies, validate forms, access specific elements on the page so you can change them dynamically. More Info/Schedule
Other Services
Fenixworks is a full featured web development firm that has been working on people's websites since 1999. In addition to the Workshops we teach, we are available for some other services.
Our instructors are available to "go off-road" and get more detailed than the 10 hour curriculum allows. Contact us for more details.
Fenixworks can be contracted to design and/or maintain your website. We have experience playing in the big sandbox with companies like HP and Wells Fargo, and we have also worked with companies with less than 5 employees. Give us a call, we can help with your situation as well.