Sponsored Contest: Winner announced for MOGO Media’s CSS seminar

We’re proud to announce that Ed Healy, of Wilmington, Delaware, was randomly selected as the winner of our contest to win free admission to MOGO Media’s CSS seminar on August 11.

We’re also excited to share that Technically Philly readers can receive a $49 discount by signing up for the seminar using the discount code “TECHPHILLY” without quotation marks.

The seminar will use a proven teaching method to teach the ins and outs of CSS, provide a working knowledge of CSS by days end, and instill the confidence to turn that design into a web site for the world to see.

Folks can register for the seminar here.

Sponsored Contest: Win a free $149 ticket to MOGO Media’s CSS class

How long have you been thinking about taking the leap from print to web? Maybe, you’d just like to sharpen your web chops.

You may know a lot about Photoshop, paragraph styles in InDesign, or the steps it takes to get that transparency to print. So why not put that knowledge to use on the web?

We’ve made it a little easier for you.

MOGO Media will be hosting a full-day seminar on CSS — Cascading Style Sheets, the style to HTML’s form — on Thursday, August 11. The seminar is for those who want to get that first CSS-based site out there, need to speak intelligently with those who already know CSS, or for those that simply want to design better web sites.

Taught from a print designer’s perspective, this CSS seminar will detail the step-by-step process of taking a web design to the browser with HTML and CSS. Using a proven teaching method, you will learn the ins and outs of CSS, have a working knowledge of CSS by day’s end, and the confidence to turn that design into a web site for the world to see.

In partnership with MOGO, Technically Philly is proud to announce that we’ve got one free admission to the organization’s upcoming, day-long seminar on CSS. By emailing us at info@technicallyphilly.com with the subject line “FREE CSS” by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 29, you’ll automatically be entered to win a free, $149 ticket to the class. And after we announce the winner, chosen at random, on Monday, August 1 at 11:00 a.m., all readers will get a $49 discount on the event using the code TECHPHILLY.

Web Start Women launches web development classes tonight, marks growth in community

Tonight will mark at least the third recent, focused initiative to bring women closer to the forefront of the technology community here in Philadelphia.

Web Start Women, a group dedicated to teaching basic elements of web design and encouraging and fostering startups, will host its first paid CSS class in South Philly, the first of four weekly classes dedicated to the subject.

Founded by University of Pennsylvania web design lecturer Susan Buck and psychology scholar Nicole Noll, the group launched informally in April, and is already building traction alongside and with local groups like Geek Girl Dinners and TechGirlz.

Susan Buck

Buck teaches a web development course in Penn’s fine arts program, and has a background in multimedia arts and science, including a masters from New York University’s interactive telecommunications program. She also works full-time at Photojojo.com, a unique photography gadget shopping website based in San Francisco.

“I’ve been at this for a while, interacting with mostly men in the field. I often have the experience where I get an e-mail from someone, and they assume I’m not the developer on the project. They often ask me to pass the message on to the developer,” she says, noting the disparity between men and women in the technology field.

What gave Buck the edge to get into an industry lacking women?

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