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Join designer and author Andy Clarke for a full day learning how to use the most up-to-date CSS in your work today. Be inspired to find new ways of designing using CSS.

Modern web browsers now better capable of rendering advanced CSS than ever before. From highly targeted CSS selectors to new ways to work with layout, colour and typography, if you are a web designer or developer, working with CSS has never been more exciting.

‘Advanced CSS Styling’ is a unique one-day master class presented by Andy Clarke, designer and author of the best-selling Transcending CSS. Spend the day with Andy learning how to use the most up-to-date CSS techniques in your everyday work.

What you will learn

• How to design balanced, inspired layouts using advanced CSS positioning techniques
• New ways to work with colour using RGBa
• Using multiple background and border images
• How to use text and box shadows
• About CSS gradients, reflections and transitions

Of course the browser landscape is varied and each browser supports different CSS properties. You will learn how to design around, rather than hack around these natural differences to create experiences that are enjoyable for everyone, no matter which browser they use. You will learn:

• How to improve a browser’s CSS support using Javascript
• Modernizr and how it will help you to design around browser support
• When using Universal Internet Explorer 6 is appropriate

Web typography is one of the hottest topics in web design and development. As a self-confessed typography perfectionist, Andy will teach you:

• Working with font embedding solutions including Typekit, Kernest and Cufon
• Creating striking, readable type with typographic hierarchies
• How to improve typography with kerning, leading and baseline shifts

In this full day master class, you will also learn the latest techniques for designing in a browser and how to test your designs for web accessibility throughout your design process.

Don’t miss out

Don’t miss this opportunity to be inspired to find new ways of using CSS and how to use the most up-to-date CSS techniques. Places for each workshop are limited to thirty and prices start at only £275.00+VAT for limited early bird places.

Schedule

The current economic situation represents the greatest adversity to face the North East for decades. The North East Chamber of Commerce (NECC) is working to ensure that all businesses in the region receive the vital support required to provide stability to their businesses during this period.

It is vital that the region’s businesses stand firm during these turbulent times and at the NECC they feel it is their responsibility, as your regional Chamber of Commerce, to provide a firm foundation on which businesses can meet the challenge of recession head-on.

Please find a help guide below with topics that include:

• Controlling Costs
• Improving Cash Flow
• Increase Your Marketing
• Maintain Service Levels
• Preparing For the Up Turn
• General Tips

Top tips for business during the economic downturn (PDF)

Being-Digital ‘09 – June 9th, London
www.being-digital.com

Being-Digital ‘09 is just under 4 weeks away on the 9th June at the CBI Centre, Centre Point, London.

There is a packed programme lined up with speakers, panel sessions, interviews, roundtables, and some of the most innovative early stage companies that will be demonstrating throughout the event. Its aim is to make it a highly valuable and enjoyable day for the 250+ executives, entrepreneurs & investors who will attend.

Contributors this year include: Simone Brummelhuis – thenextwomen.com, Rory Sutherland – Ogilvy One, Doug Richard – School for Startups, Justine Roberts – Mumsnet, Charles Cohen – Probability, and many more great people – please see the website for more details: www.being-digital.com

Also expecting around 40 innovative Demo Companies and for those seeking investment there will be an “Angels Den” in association with www.angelsden.co.uk where companies seeking early-stage funding will be pitching to active angel investors.

For registering through a partner, there are special discount prices available:

Demo Company discounted price of £295+VAT (down from £395). Packages include 2 tickets, main stage pitches, a dedicated space in our demo room for the full event, and a chance to pitch to Angels Den (limited places) – please contact team@mashupevent.com  quoting discount code SSE for more details.

Standard Delegate discounted price of £195+VAT (down from £245) accessible here:

Entrepreneur Delegate (limited amount only – for startups, sole traders and small businesses) discounted price of £95+VAT (down from £125) accessible here:

If you want more information and wish to see the full speaker lineup and testimonials from other companies please click here.

This month Culture Lab will be hosting Super Mondays, a strong and vibrant community of IT enthusiasts based in The North East of England who meet up once a month for a range of IT user group meetings and some unstructured discussions.

Register Now >

The event will start at 18:00 with tea and coffee and demonstration of several of the innovative technology projects including the ambient kitchen and surface computing.

At 19:00 we will then go upstairs where we will hear from the following speakers:

1.    Patrick Olivier – Cultural Technologies

Patrick will talk about the work of his lab at Newcastle University on cultural technologies and human-computer interaction.

2.    Jayne Wallace — Meaningful Technologies

Jayne is a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University and has been developing her practice of digital jewellery design as a means of exploring how we can use digital technologies to create objects that can hold more significance and meaning for us than mobile phones and the usual gadgets. Jayne will talk about her methods, designs and how the space for digital technology design is much wider than we might at first think.

3.    Andrew Waite — Honeypotting with Nepenthes

Andrew has been running a Nepenthes honeypot for over 12 months. During this time has has collected over 800 unique varients of malware. Andrew will bring you through how he did this and more importantly why!

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS MONTHS EVENT IS BEING HELD ON A TUESDAY!

This months event has been sponsored by Northern Film and Media.

With the credit crunch biting hard many businesses are finding it tough to keep themselves afloat.

But Business Link is dishing out some top tips on how to keep going in the current climate. By taking a few simple steps like managing your efficiency, cash-flow and debts, as well as looking at employment opportunities and carefully considering your finances, you can tighten the reins on your business and ride through the recession.

Please find some more information below with some useful online tools and advise:

http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/advice…