Purpose: Training Program that helps low-income women start or expand businesses.

Cost: $100 or less - $25 for materials and $75 for the course

Languages: Spanish and English

Address: 1465 Enea Circle, Building E, Suite 900, Concord (by Water World)

Phone: (925) 603-2770

Contact: Carmen Angulo

Web site: http://www.womensinitiative.org

Next course: Mar 24 - Jun 9 (Concord Campus) You must attend a Business Action Plan session prior to enrolling in the course

Women’s Initiative for Self Employment provides a one-stop shop where high-potential, lower-income women receive training to start and grow their business. The business management training, technical assistance, and financial services we provide — in English and Spanish — improve the quality of life for the women we serve, their families and our communities.

• Slides and live demos synchronized with audio
• Ability to search by title, keyword or speaker name
• Speaker bios and presentation abstracts
• Ability to post comments and discuss presentations online
• High quality (640×480) videos

Now you can see all of the presentations that you may have missed or couldn’t afford online. What a deal!

See these presentations at MacWorld Encore.

Eric Meyer has posted his reset styles CSS for the public on his blog. The CSS will help you to reduce browser inconsistencies like different margins, padding and line height. It’s a good idea to use a reset CSS file any time you are creating a new site or page.

Check out the reset styles CSS.

Noupe.com has created a small showcase of more than 70 outstanding header graphics with excellent use of visual elements and interface design. This is an excellent example of current trends in Web development.

Take a look at this article @ http://www.noupe.com/design/70-visually-impressing-header-graphics.html

Sometimes it is just worlds easier watching a tutorial than reading it, and the Internet has made video tutorials of all kinds very available. Photoshop tutorials are especially popular due to the complexity of the popular program.

Continue reading 20+ Photoshop Video Tutorials.

Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has established as a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist.

We aren’t going to discuss the implementation details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design — approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information.

Continue reading 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design

Imagine that you are designing an online-store. Since stakeholders are only interested in the number of sells, the success of your work directly depends on how well you manage to drive users to the “Checkout”-button. In this case you might want to consider some design approaches which will set you apart from your competitors. After all, the probability that they’ve done it wrongly is extremely high.

One of the simplest examples of flawed design decisions is the incorrect use of the shopping cart icon — a traditional icon which stands for the virtual holding place for any products of the store. Used properly, this little yet powerful element can help users to buy a product as quickly and painless as possible. As such, it is essential for the purchasing procedure and therefore deserves to be considered carefully during the design process.

Read the rest of Shopping Carts Gallery: Examples and Good Practices

As with everything in life, it can be very helpful to know NOT what to do just as much as what to do! If you’re new to job hunting, you’ve probably been reading about how to act during a job interview. You should also be studying how not to act.

If there’s a common complaint among many hiring agents and human resources professionals, it’s how many of today’s generation of job hunters show up for job interviews unprepared or come with a sense of entitlement. While confidence is never a bad thing, it’s not always a good idea to show up to a job interview with the wrong attitude.

Continue reading 35 Things To Avoid At Your Job Interview

Vandelay Web Site Design has compiled a list of 25 Beautifully Colorful Websites. In addition to screen captures of each site, there are links to the original sites so you can check them out.

For Chris and the other Mac users in class - Top 100 Essential Mac Applications