A great band deserves a great logo. Think about The Grateful Dead’s dancing bears or The Rolling Stones’ “hot lips.” Or even The Beatles: their famous logo is just a simple text-based design with a drop T. As a designer, your responsibility is to come up with a variety of logo ideas for your clients and hone in on and finesse the best one. In this course, Nigel French uses a client brief from Brooklyn-based band Shy Hunters, and shows how to evolve rough sketches into great logo designs, anchored by typography and highlighted with imagery. He also shows how to prepare variations on the design and format the logo for different uses, such as print, websites, and social media.

Credibility is currency with online audiences. By knowing how concepts like social proof (“if other people do it, so can I”) and authority affect your audience or customers, you can build your credibility and influence their behavior. Dive into this course to learn more, and start putting these concepts to work for you. Want more persuasive design techniques? Check out the rest of the courses in Chris Nodder’s Persuasive UX series.

In this course, part of his series of titles on HTML5 and CSS3, author and expert Andy Olsen looks at advanced topics like geolocation, mobile development, web sockets, Web SQL, and web workers. You’ll also learn how to communicate between pages downloaded from different servers and how to use the new Ajax features in XMLHttpRequest Level 2. After completing this workshop, developers be well equipped to start utilizing the powerful features of HTML5.

ASP.NET is Microsoft’s framework for building robust web applications. In this course, Michael Sullivan introduces the basics to get up and running with ASP.NET, exploring the framework and IDE, the structure behind ASP.NET applications, and the tools you need to manage data, construct APIs, and establish real-time web connections. Plus, get hands-on practice in the final chapter, in which Michael issues a coding challenge.

WordPress 3.8 offers powerful content management for your website; Dreamweaver CS6 enables easy design and coding. Together, they are a potent combination. In this course, you'll explore how to integrate WordPress into a Dreamweaver site, allowing you to edit and expand your code with Dreamweaver's native tools. Author Joseph Lowery shows how to take WordPress themes to the next level, using CSS customization and Spry widgets. He also covers how to make your pages responsive to tablet and phone layouts, and develop category-driven layouts. Finally, you'll investigate how to extend WordPress with plugins, style them with Dreamweaver, and get your finished website online using Dreamweaver's publishing and testing tools.

In this 5+ hour series Bob applies the lessons learned from the Application Architecture Fundamentals series to a real project. You’ll learn how to apply an agile, object oriented analysis and design process to the requirements then utilize Test Driven Development, Domain Driven Development, dependency injection and other patterns, principles, tools and practices to build an architectural spike to help design a solution for a fictional company’s business problem.

This course shows off D, a systems programming language designed to replace C++ with a simpler syntax yet the same amount of power. D is a modern, multi-paradigm language that compiles into native code. It is famous for its speed and elegance, and is getting more and more traction with developer audiences.

Abba Shapiro introduces Perfect Photo Suite, eight powerful modules that allow you to enhance photos, add effects, swap backgrounds, retouch portraits, and convert color photos to evocative black-and-white images. Perfect Photo Suite can be used as both a standalone application and integrated with Aperture, Lightroom, and Photoshop. Abba covers both workflows, and delivers three different adjustment challenges, which help you test your skills.

Explore how to create complex physical animations inside After Effects using Newton (a third-party plugin) and the Connect Layers (a free script). This project-based course covers a few specific and popular types of effects, such as letters suspended from strings and connected, randomized spheres. Artist Eran Stern shows how to connect any type of element together in a complex 3D array of strings and work with different dynamic simulations in order to create Dormant and Collision as well as Staggering and Kinematic animation types. These lessons are perfect for motion graphics artists who want to create earthy physics simulations and add realistic motion to their projects.

If you want to work on fast-moving projects, it's critical to know how to manage change requests. A change request can be an opportunity or a ticket to chaos. In this course, author Doug Rose walks you through the elements of change in a project using a sample software project. Discover how to set the stage for change, weigh the change impact, understand the cascade effect, and implement the change.