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Dear Students:
This letter will give you information about swine flu in Contra Costa County. Some cases of swine flu have been identified in children at Highlands Elementary, an elementary school in Pittsburg, CA. These children have been mild to moderately ill. The school will be closed until May 7th as a precaution. We hope they will [...]

I am republishing this article because so many new resources have been added since the original publishing date. If you know of additional resources that should be added please leave a comment below.
Part of the Photoshop class project is to create a Web site mockup. I have recently found several tutorials that may help you to complete this project. [...]

Some California unemployment offices to stay open Saturdays
Source: KSBY 6 Action News

Reported by: Bethany Tucker
The state is working to make things a bit easier for the unemployed. Twenty-five employment offices will open on Saturdays to help thousands of Californians file for unemployment benefits.
The state’s unemployment rate hit 10.5 percent last month, and more than a half million claims were filed [...]

Many students have asked me about the Conflicker Worm. I thought I would share an article from FoxNew.com.
At some point on April 1, the Conficker virus, which has quietly infected millions of PCs worldwide to herd them into a “botnet” of linked machines, will phone home for new instructions.
What it’ll do next is anyone’s guess. It could muster enough [...]

Web Design Schools Guide has compiled a list of 100 Terrific Web Design Cheat Sheets that Will Save you Time, Money and Mistakes.

Most web designers know that cheat sheets are incredibly useful. You can use them for quick reference, easy learning, and more. In this list, we’ve compiled an incredible collection of the 100 best and most useful cheat sheets [...]

Six Revisions has created a great list of 70 Excellent Photoshop Resources.
In this massive collection of resources, you’ll find all sorts of resources including: tutorial sites, Photoshop Brushes, patterns, Photoshop Actions, showcases/collections, and much more.
Check out the 70 Excellent Photoshop Resources at Six Revisions.

The Annual Northern California Career and Leadership Summit is schedule for Saturday, May 30, 2009 from 8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Please pass this along within your Network and encourage everyone to register online. This is a FREE event, unmatched to any that will be attended this year, and we anticipate 1,000 people in attendance, possibly more given the [...]

Tripwire Magazine has compiled 35+ very Useful And Powerful CSS techniques. In addition to the 35+ CSS techniques there is also a nice introduction to CSS.
Here are ten CSS techniques that students frequently ask “how do I…?” in class:

CSS Tabs
Create Resizable Images With CSS
Making web pages extend to the bottom of the window
Prettier Accessible Forms
Multi-Column Lists
Optimizing Your Website Structure [...]

Noupe.com, a wonderful news source for designers and developers, has gathered 40+ High Quality Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, Resources & PNG files. Fireworks is an great program for creating Web graphics. It is currently produced by Adobe, but was originally developed by Macromedia. If you don’t already own Photoshop and/or Illustrator you may want to download a trial version of [...]

The Joomla unit is done.  We will be using Joomla! A User’s Guide as the course text. Because the software version of Joomla! has changed since the book was written, I have written extensive notes on the assignment sheet to accompany the book. The second edition of the book is supposed to release Q1/Q2 2009. Until then you can use [...]