October 2011 Registration Open for LVS Online Classes

September 28th, 2011 lvs

NEW Courses for the October/November 2011 session: » Dreamweaver CS5 – Level I » Drupal Basics II [new for Drupal 7] » Drupal Basics III [previously Drupal Basics II, a Photo Site] Classrooms open October 17, 2011 Registration closes October 19, 2011 First lesson posts October 20, 2011

Give the gift of LVS Online Classes to someone special for Valentines Day AND….if you refer new students to LVS, receive $5 for EACH referral!

Our Windows classes are FREE to everyone and includes instructor support!

LVS students are eligible for Corel educational version software from the Corel Education Store. This includes CorelDRAW, Corel Painter, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, and Corel PhotoImpact! Registered LVS students enter CRL10LVS when checking out to get an additional 10% discount on all Corel products! Check out the LVS News page for more information and details on special offers!

As an additional benefit to our enrolled LVS students, special offers are made available by famous software developers such as Auto FX, Andromeda, AV Bros, Harry Heim – The PlugIn Site, namesuppressed, Nik Multimedia, and Ulead. Only registered students receive the information and discounts! Be sure to click on the “Class Information” link provided in your registration confirmation for IMPORTANT class information and special offers!

Registered LVS students are also eligible to purchase some of their favorite software and hardware at a student discount through our Academic Reseller programs.

New Course Highlights

*Dreamweaver CS5 – Level I*

The world is heading online and many businesses want and needs an online presence. The first thing that means is a setting up a web site. Dreamweaver CS 5 help you get and maintain a web site. This is an introductory class that gives you the basic tools to use the Dreamweaver program. Using its WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) method of web design, we will talk about topics like CSS and HTML, SPRY Assets and basic web site setup. We’ll touch on image editing within Dreamweaver and making image rollovers.

Need to update your print skills, make a website for your local church group, or an organization? Or maybe you would like to make a family picture album site. Dreamweaver CS 5 can help. Want to get a job working for Amazon, Google, or You Tube? Well you need more then we can do in 5 weeks but this is where you can start building web sites then move onwards and upwards! Dreamweaver CS5 is Web Standards compliant and produces clean code to a number of standards.

Not sure exactly what that means? If you take the class you will know plus, we cover other topics like FTP, Beginners HTML, Beginners CSS, Web Templates and more. You’ll learn by reading then doing.
Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

*Drupal Basics II [new for Drupal 7] *

Drupal offers two important tools that can be used to personalize your site. Custom Content types allow you to add custom fields to existing content types and create your own content types. Views can be used to generate reports, create summaries, and other content. With the combination of these two tools, amazing things can be done on your site. The possibilities are endless. In this class we will explore Custom content types, View, and other modules that can be used to personalize your site. We will learn about the Administration tools that are available in Drupal and how to use them.

Hundreds of modules are available for use with Drupal. You can create events calendars, a contact form, product catalogs, polls or surveys, guestbook, a forum, or newsletter signup. The possibilities are endless. Basically, there are no limits with Drupal. You really can make any type of website you want. No programming skills are required! Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

*Drupal Basics III [previously Drupal Basics II, a Photo Site]*

This class will teach you the basics of this very important Drupal module: Panels. With Panels you can create customized layouts for your pages and views, even your home page. We will also be doing more with custom content types and Views. In this course we will create a photo album for our site. This should be a really fun way to learn how to use some very important contributed modules that have lots of different uses.

These lessons will take you step by step through the development of your photo site. You should have previous experience with Drupal by taking the first two Drupal Basics class where we built a site/blog or by having similar experience with creating content, links, menus, blocks, taxonomy, setting up users, user roles, permissions, comments, selecting themes, using views, creating custom content types, and enabling modules. If you have not done a majority of these things, you may want to consider taking the other Drupal Basics classes first, then taking this class.

You may have already done some online photo sharing on different sites on the web. The first photo sharing sites originated during the mid to late 1990s primarily from services providing online ordering of prints, but many more came into being during the early 2000s with the goal of providing permanent and centralized access to a user’s photos.

There are many more ways you can use this type of site. Have you thought about different uses for a photo site? Here are just a few ideas:

Use your imagination and you’ll find dozens of ideas for uses of this type of site. Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

Check out our complete selection of online classes!

*FREE TUTORIALS*

• Understanding Directories and Paths
• Basic HTML Page
• Dreamweaver Extension Manager
• *Mac* Basic IRCle Tutorial
• Basics of mIRC
• Saving and opening PDF files
• Screen Captures with Photshop CS
• Screen Captures with IrfanView
• How to Set File Permissions
• Text Editors
• Create Thumbnail Images
• Windows XP Compression
• Winzip Tutorial
• WS-FTP Tutorial
• Visit the Free Tutorial Page for more information!

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Start the New Year with New Skills

January 2nd, 2010 lvs

What are your New Years’ resolutions? Is this the year that you are going to start that blog, build that web site or figure what in the heck Twitter is all about? If so, I have a class for you! Blogging Basics with WordPress Blogging for Fun, Fame and Fortune PHP 101 for Web Developers Advanced Dreamweaver Twitter for Business [more]

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A High Quality Education Doesn’t Have To Come At A High Cost

December 8th, 2009 lvs

NEW Courses for January 2010 session: » Creating a Drupal Blog » Dreamweaver Advanced » Flash ActionScript 3.0 » Photography Basics III » Photojournalism & Documentary Photography » Photoshop Elements 8 Basics: Setting Sail

Give the gift of LVS Online Classes to someone special AND….if you refer new students to LVS, receive $5 for EACH referral!

Our Windows classes are FREE to everyone and includes instructor support!

LVS students are eligible for Corel educational version software from the Corel Education Store. This includes CorelDRAW, Corel Painter 11, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, and Corel PhotoImpact X3! Registered LVS students enter CRL10LVS when checking out to get an additional 10% discount on all Corel products! Check out the LVS News page for more information and details on special offers!

As an additional benefit to our enrolled LVS students, special offers are made available by famous software developers such as Auto FX, Andromeda, AV Bros, Harry Heim – The PlugIn Site, namesuppressed, Nik Multimedia, and Ulead. Only registered students receive the information and discounts! Be sure to click on the “Class Information” link provided in your registration confirmation for IMPORTANT class information and special offers!

Registered LVS students are also eligible to purchase some of their favorite software and hardware at a student discount through our Academic Reseller programs.

Instructor-led classes begin January 9, 2010. Head on over to LVS Online Registration to enroll today!

Registration for the January 2010 session ends January 6, 2010.

New Course Highlights

*Creating a Drupal Blog*

Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System written in PHP. With Drupal you can create a simple personal homepage, a company website, a blog, an ecommerce site, etc. Hundreds of modules are available for use with Drupal. You can create slide shows, events calendars, a contact form, product catalogs, polls or surveys, guestbook, a forum or blog, or newsletter signup. The possibilities are endless. Basically, there are no limits with Drupal, you really can make any type of website you want. No programming skills are required!

This online course is designed to take you through the development of your own Drupal web site. We will be doing a personal blog on whatever “G” rated subject that you choose. What is a weblog? A weblog, or “blog”, is a personal journal on the Web. Some modules that can be used for this type of site include a slide show, events calendar, and a guest book. Weblogs cover many different topics. Your blog can be used to share information with relatives and friends. It can include recipes, graduation announcements, birthdays, or vacation pictures. Basically anything that you are interested in can be shared with others on your blog. You can allow others to post comments on your blog. The sky s the limit!!

This class is for anyone that is interested in creating a personal web site or blog. This class will teach you the basics of the Drupal Content Management System.

Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

*Dreamweaver Advanced*

This is an advanced course for web designers that want to make the transition from using Dreamweaver to create static web sites to dynamic and interactive data driven web sites It is designed for people who have been creating web sites for a while and wanting to create professional web sites.

This advanced course will utilize Dreamweaver tools to create functioning forms that will control your reader’s experience on your web site. You will learn how to incorporate Javascript, XML,PHP and MySQL functionality into your web sites. We will expand our Spry skills, learned in previous Dreamweaver classes, to manage and display data. Students will work on a team project to learn professional web design workflow, in addition to their individual assignments.

Visit our Web Related Campus to learn more.

*Flash ActionScript 3.0*

Currently ActionScript 3.0 is the internal programming language of Flash, Flex and Adobe AIR. This object oriented language is more adherent to the ECMA-262 standard which many other languages (i.e. JavaScript) follow.

This class gives non-programmers a chance to really understand the benefits of using a programming language in an animation tool like Adobe Flash. Students will learn the basics of the core language of ActionScript 3.0, how it is used within the timeline, interact with objects (movieclips) on the stage and library, develop simple animations with just ActionScript and understand the importance and how to create preloaders for your movies.

This beginner class on ActionScript 3.0 will give you a great foundation for creating (or understanding existing scripts) your own custom scripts.

Visit our Graphic Programs Campus to learn more.

*Photography Basics III*

Photography Basic III HDR (High Dynamic Range) & Panorama Stitching online course will introduce you to the world of High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. These images can also be combined into a single panorama image and the first two weeks of this course will concentrate on how to produce a panorama image using standard JPG images. HDR will increase the dynamic range of your images. Many times our exposures will have blown out highlights and look flat and dull. HDR will help you solve this problem and reveal highlight and shadow details you never thought were possible.

Instructor Al Mierau has been an avid photographer for over 50 years. For 15 years he was professionally photographing commercial and residential structures for mortgage, fire insurance, and courtroom evidence. Air Canada, Gardens West Prairie Edition, and Heritage Canada magazines have published his photographs. Some of his work can also be seen at the Menno-Hof museum located in Shipshewana, Indiana.

Visit our Photography Campus to learn more.

*Photojournalism & Documentary Photography*

In this online class students learn the basic techniques to have their work published by newspapers and magazines. Techniques and methods to produce images that are newsworthy with more impact are discussed and demonstrated through assignments. This course covers techniques to get news pictures with impact whether shooting spec shots, environmental portraits, sporting and entertainment events, general news or spot news. Journalism ethics, writing cut lines, and how to sell your work are discussed.

Visit our Photography Campus to learn more.

*Photoshop Elements 8 Basics: Setting Sail*

Photoshop Elements 8 Basics: Setting Sail class is all new for Photoshop Elements, and will cover Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows and Mac. This is the first of a two part course and contains Lessons 1-6. It must be taken before taking the second class, More Photoshop Elements 8 Basics, which contains Lessons 7-12. You will learn the tools and interface, using the Effects palette and how to set preferences to make Elements work your way (as well as how to reset corrupted preferences). You will learn about selections and using Save for Web and much more!

This class does not cover the Organizer. Because of the scope of the Organizer and the fact it is as feature-packed as a separate program, it has its own classes, and is not included in the Mac version of Elements.

Visit our Graphic Programs Campus to learn more.

Check out our complete selection of online classes!

*FREE TUTORIALS*

• Understanding Directories and Paths
• Basic HTML Page
• Dreamweaver Extension Manager
• *Mac* Basic IRCle Tutorial
• Basics of mIRC
• Saving and opening PDF files
• Screen Captures with Photshop CS
• Screen Captures with IrfanView
• How to Set File Permissions
• Text Editors
• Create Thumbnail Images
• Windows XP Compression
• Winzip Tutorial
• WS-FTP Tutorial
• Visit the Free Tutorial Page for more information!

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Dreamweaver & PHP Online Classes Open For Registration!

August 12th, 2009 lvs

If you were waiting to register for the Intermediate Dreamweaver online course and the PHP online course, both are open for registration now.

Bean, instructor of the Dreamweaver and PHP classes, and her assistants have been busily updating the lessons and will have them ready for the upcoming September session.

Bean also teaches the WordPress Blogging classes, Dreamweaver Intro and the MySQL Intro online classes.

Visit Bean’s class blogs:
Blogging Class Blog
Dreamweaver Class Blog
MySQL/PHP Class Blog
All of Beans classes are listed here.
Follow Bean on Twitter.

To help Bean out with her busy schedule, Art, instructor of the Illustrator online course, will be teaching the Dreamweaver Intro class again for the September session. Art instructed the class in the May session and received rave reviews from his students:

“I took the Dreamweaver Level 1 course last semester with Art. He was FANTASTIC. I couldn’t say enough good things about him. He was prompt in answering questions, and he answered them very fully, often with examples.”

If you haven’t registered yet, head on over there now – registration ends August 26th. Enrollment is limited – register now!

Remember that returning students receive a 20% discount on all classes. The discount will be reflected when you sign into your LVS account. And don’t forget to ask your referrals to list your name so that you recieve a $5 credit for each new referral!

More information on classes, educational discounts and special offers on software.

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Dreamweaver: A Powerful Tool for Web Designers

March 7th, 2009 lvs

Dreamweaver is the most popular web editing platform for web designers. Jam packed with features and with tons of extensions available, Dreamweaver is a powerful tool for web designers and web developers to create interactive web sites. Although it is a professional web editor, Dreamweaver’s interface makes it easy for even the hobby web designer to create a professional quality web site.

The new Introduction to Dreamweaver CS3–CS4 course is offered this March. The lessons in this introduction online Dreamweaver class are designed for both the PC and Mac user. Although this is an introductory course, it is strongly recommended that students have basic HTML and CSS skills before enrolling in the Dreamweaver series.

At LVS Online, we have tailored our Dreamweaver three course series to meet the needs of the hobby web designer and the aspiring professional web designer. At the end of the Dreamweaver course series, students will have all the skills necessary to pass the Adobe Certified Associate exam in Dreamweaver.

Bean Fairbanks has been using Dreamweaver for 7 years as a professional web designer/developer. She incorporates best practices in web design as she guides students in mastering the tools of Dreamweaver.

Software up to 75% off for students, teachers, and schools at Academic Superstore!

Students, parents, faculty! Journeyed.com has your lowest prices on software, hardware and more!

Visit Bean’s class blog for frequent Dreamweaver updates.

Follow Bean on Twitter!

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Get The Skills You Need

February 23rd, 2009 lvs

Employees with the most skills have a better chance of keeping their jobs during these tough times. Don’t take a chance with your career – we make training easy and affordable!

Over 100 online courses are open for enrollment.

NEW Courses for March session:

Hurry – classes fill up fast! Instructor-led classes begin March 14th, so head on over to LVS Online to enroll now!

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Skills are your biggest security blanket

February 18th, 2009 lvs

Turbulent times are disturbing and difficult, but can also present an pportunity for those that recognize the situation and act quickly. A key component of readiness is having the right skills. Develop as many market-hot skills as possible. Go beyond listing experiences; focus on skills. Skills are your biggest security blanket.

Take charge of your career development and learn how to survive in today’s work world with LVS Online Classes! Over 100 online courses are now open for enrollment.

NEW Courses for March session:

Returning students receive a 20% discount! Just sign into your LVS account and the discount will automatically be applied to your registration.

Instructor-led classes begin March 14, 2009. If you have not yet registered, head on over to the LVS Online Registration to enroll today!

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Registration is open for the March 2009 Session!

February 11th, 2009 lvs

Registration Is Open At LVS Online Classes – Where Learning Is Fun!

Our courses of study are for people who love to learn! Our online classes are perfect for senior learners, homeschoolers, those seeking a stress-relieving hobby, or to update your resume. Even people who have gone on to have successful careers may feel a nagging need to learn. If you love to learn, you’ll love LVS Online classes!

Over 100 online courses are now open for enrollment

NEW Courses for March session: » Abstract Painting » Introduction to Astronomy » The Art of Collage with Corel PainterX » Blogging for Fun, Fame, and Fortune Revised » CoffeeCup Software » Corel Painter X: Introduction to Brushes I **Revised** » Dreamweaver CS3-CS4 Level I Revised » Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 – Intro » Joomla! Fast Track

Give the gift of LVS Online Classes to someone special for Valentines Day AND….if you refer new students to LVS, be sure to tell them to list you as the referrer to receive $5 for EACH referral!

Returning students receive a 20% discount! Just sign into your LVS account and the discount will automatically be applied to your registration.

Our Windows classes are FREE to everyone and includes instructor support!

LVS students are eligible for Corel educational version software from the Corel Education Store. This includes CorelDraw, Painter, and Paint Shop Pro! Check out the LVS News page for more information and details on special offers!

As a benefit to our enrolled LVS students, special offers are made available by famous software developers such as Andromeda, AV Bros, Extensis, Harry Heim (the PlugIn Site), namesuppressed, Nik Multimedia, and Ulead. Only registered students receive the information and discounts! Be sure to click on the “Class Information” link provided in your registration confirmation for IMPORTANT class information and special offers!

As in the past, registered LVS students are eligible to purchase some of their favorite programs at a student discount through our Academic Reseller program.

Instructor-led classes begin March 14, 2009. If you have not yet registered, head on over to the LVS Online Registration to enroll today!

Registration for the March 2009 session ends March 11, 2009.

New Course Highlights

*Abstract Painting*

This class is for people that want to learn how to “think” abstract. If you’re like me, I look at a blank canvas and have no idea where to start to make an abstract, but you really really want to be able to create one. This class will kick your creative juices into high gear and give you ideas and techniques that will enable you to think, envision and create abstractly.

This is probably the most lenient class you will ever take. Abstraction has very few rules and is perhaps the freest expression of art there is. In this vein, you are allowed to use anything you want to make your pieces. You can use paint, ink, crayons, markers, colored pencils, but it would be best if you used something that will allow you to create color in your images. The only thing is no matter what media you decide on, you must know how to use that media, as this class only teaches technique, not use of any particular media.

Visit our Graphic Design & Art Campus to learn more.

*Introduction to Astronomy*

A descriptive class (no math required) on astronomy covering history of astronomy, observational astronomy, and composition of our solar system, galaxy, and universe. First, you will learn about the history of astronomy and learn about how to view objects in the night sky. Next, you will learn about the formation and evolution of our solar system, including the composition and positions of the planets, moons, and the Sun. You will also learn about stars including their evolution and life cycle, properties and the formation of black holes. We will move onto galaxies and explore our own galaxy including the galaxies nearest to our own, progressing onto classifications of galaxies and interstellar medium. The universe as a whole will be examined by discussing the origins, expansion, theories of everything, and its fate. Finally, we will discuss the possibility of extraterrestrial life and what scientists are currently doing to search for life elsewhere. Visit our Art & Humanities Campus to learn more.

*The Art of Collage with Corel PainterX*

Collage is a wonderful way to display images and add objects that we call embellishments.

The word Collage stems from the French word coller which means to stick or glue visual objects to a central backing. Two dimensional collage is usually created with photographs, ribbons and pieces of newspapers, magazines and materials by using photography or scanning. You can use just about anything! It is only limited by your imagination!

Collage most often carries a theme whether it be a portrait of someone or a particular scene you wish to show off with added items that bring together a unique piece of art. Painting with Painter Brushe, applying textures and effects to enhance the images brings a result of a lovely creative image.

Not just images, objects and painting are applied. The effective use of Masks, Composite Methods and Effects that are available within Painter and of course not limited to outside effects.

Some may say that Collage is similar to Scrapbooking and in a small way it is. The similarity is adding images and objects to a background.

This is a six week course where you will begin with simple assemblages, leading up to week six when you create a portrait of yourself or a loved one. Visit our Graphic Programs Campus to learn more.

*CoffeeCup Software*

CoffeeCup Software was started inside a real coffeehouse in the early summer of 1996. Back then, good software to create cool Websites was really hard to find.” Since 1996, CoffeeCup Software has been making easy-to-use software. If you’re just getting started or if you already have a Website, their suite of web design and web site enhancing software will have you up and running a snazzy site in no time.

CoffeeCup Software is shareware, which means if you don’t already own it, you can download it and try it without having to pay for it. This gives you an opportunity to see if you like the program before you buy it. You can download all of the software we’re going to be learning here: CoffeeCup Software. Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

*Corel Painter X: Introduction to Brushes I **Revised***

Introduction to Corel Painter Brushes I is the first class of a two-part course. The class has to be divided into two due to the enormous amount of information contained in Painter’s Brushes. To help newer ones discovering Painter, the class is written with the beginner in mind.

Corel’s PainterX is the leading digital painting application software. Painter’s Brush tools offer a wide range of preset painting and drawing tools called Brush Variants. These Variants are organized into Categories, like, Airbrushes, Oils, Calligraphy, Pencils, so on and so forth.

Painter Brushes are designed with real media in mind. For example: you can select a Variable Flat variant from the Oils Category from the Brush Selector bar, and your brush will react just like an oil brush on traditional canvas. The Brush Selector bar lets you can have quick access to all Brush Categories and Variants at your fingertips, beautiful Pastels, Digital Watercolour, Oils.

One of PainterX’s great features is the creation of the RealBristle Brush with its Variants that produce a natural movement of an artist’s brush. This feature heightens the responsiveness of your brush in a totally new way. You can replicate the sensation and interaction between paint, canvas and brush. There’s no other program that can let you experience this. RealBristle brushes are featured in Class II. It is a requirement that you take Class I before commencing with Class II. Visit our Graphics Programs Campus to learn more.

*Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 – Intro*

This course provides a solid introduction to working with Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. The course will begin with the basics including workspacelayout, toolbars, palettes and then move on to imaging fundamentals. The focus of the class is to get you comfortable enough with the basics to continue learning some of the more advanced features of Paint Shop Pro Photo X2. (The class does NOT cover any of the new features in the Ulimate Version)

Learn to use some of the newest tools such as the unique makeover tools which let you whiten teeth, remove blemishes and paint on a tan. This course is a sure bet for the beginner and will get your started on making the most of your photos before you post them online. Visit our Graphics Programs Campus to learn more.

*Joomla! Fast Track*

This is a fast-paced course in Joomla! Development. Joomla! is an Open Source Content Management System that enables you to make professional and exciting web standards compliant websites very quickly with no coding knowledge. Joomla! is the perfect solution for web designer’s clients that want to maintain their own website. Clients, once logged in, can administer their site from the frontend with no knowledge of coding required. They can then add, edit or delete content at their own pace – even upload images, files, video etc – all through Joomla! Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

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Check out our complete selection of online classes!

*FREE TUTORIALS*

• Understanding Directories and Paths
• Basic HTML Page
• Dreamweaver Extension Manager
• *Mac* Basic IRCle Tutorial
• Basics of mIRC
• Saving and opening PDF files
• Screen Captures with Photshop CS
• Screen Captures with IrfanView
• How to Set File Permissions
• Text Editors
• Create Thumbnail Images
• Windows XP Compression
• Winzip Tutorial
• WS-FTP Tutorial
• Visit the Free Tutorial Page for more information!

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