Spring Bootcamps

Our Spring Quarter is fast approaching, but there’s still time to sign up for our 8-week bootcamps!
Bootcamps are 48 hours of hands-on computer training with a professional expert in the field of your interest. Learn javascript, CSS, HTML, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, or even delve deep into the mind of a skilled mobile web developer. Classes are 1 day a week from 10-5. Parking is available for $10 and the Grand EL stop is just a block and a half away.

Mondays, April 2 - May 21:
HTML5/CSS3

Tuesdays, April 3 - May 22:
Web Development I

Wednesdays, April 4 - May 23 :
Adobe Print Bootcamp - (11:30-5pm)

Thursdays, April 5 - May 24:
Mobile Design Bootcamp

Fridays, April 6 - May 25:
Flash
jQuery

Is Flash really dying?

It started with the battle between Apple and Adobe, which lead to Adobe releasing this statement: “Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores.  We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook.” Some even see Google+‘s keen use of HTML5 as the final nail in the coffin. But is Flash really dying?

TheFWA recently decided to seek out the people who would really know the best—the industry professionals. There’s a variety of responses, which you can read for yourself here, but overall there seems to be one sentiment ringing true: it goes beyond the tools that are being used, it is all about what creatives do with those tools.

How To Hire A Web Developer

According to a recent article by Technorati, web developers are in extremely high demand Chicago. These highly-skilled individuals (some of them trained here at DBC) excel at taking a website from start to finish, choosing the back end and making the front end fit snugly over it.

But what can you do to prepare for your first meeting? You can plan. A web developer can only execute what he is given, and his success comes from both a sound structure and original content that has been carefully crafted by yourself or a copywriter. At the least, site maps and wire frames are a must. The site map allows the developer to not only build the site, but offer recommendations on how to trim the fat and save money. Wire frames are simple visualizations (often pencil sketchs or Visio boards) that tell the developer where you’d like menus, main content, ads, and images to appear. Taking the time to prepare these documents can save thousands of dollars of development time. If you’d like to know what classes we offer covering these topics, click this link and call or email Kendra at (312) 245-2900 and .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).