We are delighted to announce that, presented by Artisteer, the “Artisteer Prize” will be awarded each session to the Joomla! Fast Track Student who has completed the course and who has participated in the virtual classroom to the benefit of all. The prize consists of a full licence for Artisteer with updates free for a year.

The final decision will be made by the students in an anonymous vote ten days after the last lesson is posted. The virtual classroom is the ‘heart’ of an LVS Online course which adds to the experience of learning online.

Artisteeris the first and only Web design automation product that instantly creates fantastic looking, unique CMS website templates and blog themes. Recently added, the ability to create a Joomla! template with over 22 fully collapsible positions, is making Artisteer ‘must have’ software for the Joomla! Developer.

“You get what you pay for…” aha! but that doesn’t take into account philanthropy and passion does it?

Each LVS Online Instructor has their own story. But the common threads are energy, love of people, passion for their subject and a desire to share their knowledge.

My story? I joined LVS as a Student because I didn’t know what a coding ‘p’ was, or a ‘table’. It was frustration probably. But it is a decision I will never ever regret. It was at the time when designing websites with tables was changing to html and css. LVS taught both simultaneously. Radically, at that time, I decided to go with the css/html and it was radical at that time – there was a lot of resistance from the ‘old schoolers’ who didn’t understand that we weren’t throwing out tables completely, we still use them for data, but that we could position with, and remove styling to, our style sheets.

LVS guided me through all that, teaching standards compliant, up-to-date coding. They enabled me to be free.

Perhaps you will understand more why LVS Classes remain $30 for a six week instructor-led course (less for returning students) – no matter what your financial situation, LVS tries to make sure you can afford them. We all love our subjects and we want to ’share’ and to make you love and understand them too.

LVS Online Registration opens for the March 2009 session today. Hurry on over there as spaces are limited for these popular instructor-led and self-study online courses. There is an online class for everyone and they certainly will equip you with new skills and might even change your life!

Joomla online class registration is available costing only $25 per six week instructor-led course reducing to $20 for returning students – we look forward to ‘meeting’ you…

Make your own typography cloud – add words, use your rss feed from your website or your blog or even use your del.icio.us tags… Here is a cloud made with this blog’s RSS Feed:

Just a bit of fun and design courtesy of Wordle who say:

“Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.”

Worried about coding? Still using tables for everything? LVS Online has just the series of courses for you!

Known as the “Build” classes, Deborah, Becky and Vikki take you through, stage by stage, all the coding you will need to build a modern, standards compliant website.

Although you can use Joomla! with no coding knowledge at all, knowledge is power and being able to recognize which part of the code affects which part of the page is an advantage.
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LVS Online is a distance-learning web site dedicated to providing students with an affordable and fun way to learn.

Quote from LVS Online:

“Our online classes are perfect for senior learners, homeschoolers, or those seeking a stress-relieving hobby or even a career change. You will not need any special hardware or software to participate. There are no scheduled class times – you decide when you would like to work online, day or the middle of the night, no matter what time zone. Your instructor is there to review your work, answer questions or concerns and, if you would like, you can chat with other students on our class discussion board. The very best part of online learning is that you do not have to leave your home to enjoy a course developed and taught by a professional in their field!”
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