Webinar: Get started with Visio

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The webinar is over. Check back in a few days to see the recording or go to http://aka.ms/offweb for more information on how to join the series.

Learn about Visio, a program designed to help you make diagrams for flowcharts, room layouts, timelines, organizational charts and a lot more. We’ll start at the key of Visio: understanding how its shapes work.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar

How to get shapes, either from the Visio program or by downloading themThe difference between 1-D shapes and 2-D shapes How to connect shapes How to work with text in Visio

References for this webinar

--Doug Thomas

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Getting started with business intelligence in the new Office

Reliable business intelligence and insight are the keys to a thriving business. Excel, SharePoint, and Office 365 make in an organization as part of the daily work more for everyone business intelligence (BI) in the new Office.  New and improved features in familiar tools like Excel enable all in one company to easily discover, model, analyze, and visualize data from different sources. With SharePoint all experience levels can jointly develop and share insights on dashboards and scorecards, and this experience continues seamlessly in the cloud with Office 365. For enterprise environments, these functions are further enhanced by SQL Server for higher performance and scalability both locally and in the cloud with BI-azure. Ultimately, everyone in the organization using Microsoft BI, can develop insights that help to make the new discoveries and better and more informed decisions.

Gemini was a popular add-in for Excel 2010, enables hundreds of millions of rows in Excel to create the large data models. In Excel, this feature will reduce the effort for the downloads and installation now natively embedded. PowerPivot is supported in SharePoint with SQL Server Analysis Services where the PowerPivot workbooks largely can be released models in the entire organization. New features such as quick explore help users navigate their data and analysis fast offers preview of your diagrams, charts and scorecards.

Users can:

Combining and analyzing large data sets with PowerPivotSummarize data and discover trends with quick ExploreInstantly preview charts and pivot tables with fast analysis

Introducing SQL Server 2012, power view provides a canvas to create Visual dashboards in SharePoint. Now this function in Excel and SharePoint is embedded, so that business users can create stunning reports to share and interact throughout the organization. The field list to the Pan and change the views now supports Excel Services in the browser. We have also extended PerformancePoint services provide additional features such as themes, filter extensions, authentication improvements, new BI Portal and server-side migration.

Users can:

Do browse interactive data with power ViewShare reports with your colleagues with Excel ServicesWork together, make decisions on dashboards with PerformancePoint services from

Self-service BI has often triggered maintain the integrity of the reports and security concerns for it professionals. With the new request tool in Excel and audit and service control manager in SharePoint IT governance teams can manage created more self service BI end user assets. Together, will compare these features help in various versions of the reports and track changes in report libraries to a version of the truth, to ensure your insights.

Users can:

Consolidation and simplification of management with SharePointDiagnose workbooks for errors and track changes by using spreadsheet InquireManage spreadsheet risk within an organization with audit and service control manager

An opportunity that started with Microsoft BI is through our new Microsoft BI solution Builder online-tool, that helps to configure the correct platform for your organization.

Try it out today at: http://www.bisolutionbuilder.com/

Find more resources on the Microsoft BI on the Microsoft Business Intelligence Blog.

BI features supported by Office 365?

With the new updates to Office 365, we support now features such as quick explore, Gemini and power view in SharePoint online for BI scenarios. There are however a few limitations when compared to the in-place environment:

Workbook maximum group size 10MBNo external data RefreshNo PerformancePoint ServicesNo PowerPivot Gallery

Offer information on the full Microsoft cloud BI in the future we will announce.

Are Excel workbooks backwards compatible?

The data model-enabled workbooks in Excel 2013 are not backward-compatible with earlier versions of Excel. Excel 2010 workbooks prompts however the automatic update on Excel 2013 data models when opened in Excel 2013 client for forward compatibility with Gemini models. Excel 2010 workbooks that are stored in SharePoint in which must be Excel-2013 client open and upgrade to the newer model of data in Excel Services in SharePoint 2013 used.

Are BI features in Office home and student RT supported?

On the client side the embedded Excel in Office home and student-RT includes in the delivery of Windows RT, not the most BI features, providing the full Excel 2013 Professional plus client. In particular, PowerPivot, power view is quickly explore and request not available in Office home and student of RT.

On the SharePoint page, most of the functions in the mobile browsers of today's tablets, except the Web parts support the Silverlight as well as PowerPivot Gallery, power views in Excel Services, and decomposition, will require trees in PerformancePoint services.

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Getting started: How to sign in to Office

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Sometimes the first step is the hardest, but not in this case. Spend a minute (literally, it's only one minute) watching the below video to learn how to get started, so you can begin taking advantage of your Office subscription benefits, like online SkyDrive storage.

You can get a free 30-day trial or buy Office 365 Home Premium today or learn more at Get Started with the new Office.

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Getting started Tip # 2: a travelogue from key West in OneNote create

(This is the second in a series on getting started with OneNote.) Read Tip # 1 create and set up a notebook to learn.)

How many times can you to key West if you from the opposite corner - the Pacific Northwest? I went to key West to dry, to see totally different flora and fauna, and southern and Cuban cuisine.

So I created an ongoing travelogue in a OneNote notebook with photos, favorite restaurant info and my notes, I wanted to remind every last second. I will walk through how I it has made, so that you can add this type of content to your own OneNote notebook.

 The choice of a theme

OneNote has built-in themes or templates to the mood and the purpose of the project match. Florida's sky is beautifully blue, so I chose the clouds of blue template:

To add a template, click the arrow next to the new page, choose page templates, and scroll to find which you like.

Add photos

On my first day, I saw huge iguanas, wild orchids and countless sea view.  How could I take not dozens of photos?  I carved it down and choose the best to my notebook Add.

To add photos, click on Insert Image, then navigate to where you saved it on your computer, and select those Add.

Add captions and other text

Sometime after I return, I show you the photos and question me, where I spotted the iguana.

With OneNote, it is easy to create labels or add text anywhere on the page. Start simply and OneNote creates a "Container" for the words. You can drag & drop the container to any place on the page.

Add website screenshots

Key West is the "gourmet" sky. Its chefs serve all kinds of fish and seafood Cuban cuisine and BBQ in other dishes. To my best culinary experiences remind, I took screenshots of Web pages of the restaurants and threw them in OneNote.

OneNote has only the coolest tool for "access" and copying Web pages. (Explain, it is more difficult than doing it.) Simply follow these steps:

Open a Web pageIn OneNote, click Insert, click screen clipping in the foreground will automatically pop the site and appear that is dimmed the cursor in the area you want to crop cursor changes to a black cross which a cropping tool, and when you release the cursor, screen shot is automatically inserted into the notebook page, OneNote automatically adds the date and time of the screenshot, and a link to the Web page

Adding hyperlinks

There were so many attractions in key West, that I maybe a photo or link each add could not. Instead I have a list of links and small images.

To add a link, click Insert, then link, which link dialog box opens.  Add the name of the link, then copy the URL in the address bar .

 

Save your notebook

In OneNote, you have never over worry save your notebook. How to use content in it, OneNote stores automatically to the location where you created the the cloud, computer, and many tablets and phones can contain. We show you how to save your notebook at different locations in an upcoming tip.

Organize all the stuff

For my notebook key West you probably noticed that I created individual pages for my photos, favorite restaurants and other content. Read more information about the create and set up a notebook with sections and pages, Tip # 1 in our beginners series.

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OneNote Getting Started Tip 5: Connect task lists & turn notes into emails

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Did you know OneNote and Outlook are well connected? You can send emails via Outlook right from OneNote. And you can track your To-Do list in both of them at the same time. This post shows you how.  

Let's say you've just finished taking notes at a meeting and want to send them to meeting attendees. In OneNote, on the Home tab, click E-mail Page.

Outlook opens, and your OneNote page is turned into an email--just add meeting attendees and send. 

Maybe you've made notes in OneNote on a bunch of things that you need to get done. You can add these as tasks and track them in both OneNote and Outlook at the same time. 

In OneNote, highlight the tasks you want to add to your Outlook task list, then click Outlook tasks and decide when you want to complete them by:

They appear in Outlook on your To-Do list.

Also, when you mark a task as completed in Outlook, it will show up as completed in OneNote and vice versa--pretty cool.

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Office Preview – Getting Started Guide

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Editor’s note: Last week was quite busy. We had great feedback from the preview announcement. If you weren’t among those who took the earliest opportunity to get the software, or even if you did and just wanted to learn more about the preview program, we’ve invited Beth Petry, Senior Program Manager for Office Customer Programs to explain the various opportunities for participation. The preview release covers a lot of ground.  Large enterprises, small or mid-size business and people at home have experiences offered for their specific needs. This post is less about the products, and more about the roadmap for participating.

I’m Beth Petry, I lead Customer Programs for the Office division. Throughout the cycle I’ve had the chance to work with many people evaluating Office. It is an exciting time for us to share it with the world. We’re very excited to have your feedback. Office Preview is off and running!

Many thanks to those of you who have downloaded the preview release. We’re getting a lot of great feedback. Please keep it coming! If you haven’t had a chance to get it yet, you can find the preview release of Office on http://office.com/preview.

When you reach the site you are presented with many choices. How do you know what is right for you? We’ve pulled together this quick start guide to help you understand the navigation of the site and the opportunities and choices available to you.

First things first, you’ll need a LiveID to sign in. If you don’t have a LiveID, you can get one here.  Once you have your LiveID you are ready to begin.

If you go to the site and click the green button, you’ll be directed to the Office 365 Home Premium Preview. This is what we recommend for general use, student or basic home use. Clicking the “Sign Up” button will take you where you need to go to begin.

Office Home Premium Preview allows you up to 5 PCs or tablets in your household, access to all your documents on Internet connected PCs and the applications you are familiar with. You’ll log onto the service with your LiveID and save your files to SkyDrive.

Below the home user preview pane, you may have noticed the “Services for Business” area. In this section you are presented with three choices; Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Small Business Premium, and Office 365 Enterprise. Let’s take a closer look at each one.

Office 365 ProPlus Preview is an Office client suite that provides you with Office as well as Lync. For enterprises seeking to evaluate the new version of ProPlus, we have made testing a bit easier. For the first time ever, when installing our Click 2 Run offerings, we’ll support side by side installation of Office Preview with prior Office versions. Click 2 Run also offers improved updating efficiency, and as we have covered on the blog before, connects naturally to the Office 365 environment. Office 365 ProPlus Preview lets you create up to 25 user accounts, with 5 installations of Office 365 ProPlus per user. It includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, and Lync. Learn more about Office 365 ProPlus. 

You can visit this page to learn more about the Office 365 ProPlus Preview

Office 365 Small Business Premium Preview is the next generation of Office 365. This service will transform the way manage your business, professionally while gaining efficiency – without the need for technical expertise. Office 365 Small Business Premium Preview is ideal for businesses with up to 10 employees. Each user can install Office, getting the same applications that are included in Office 365 ProPlus, on up to 5 PCs, and enjoy professional email, shared documents, and HD video conferencing in an easy-to-manage solution that is hosted by Microsoft. Learn more about Office 365 Small Business Premium.

Office 365 Enterprise Preview offers you efficiency and control. Create professional content, connect with customers and partners in a secure manner, powerful tools for more effective management, control and compliance with enterprise-grade security, data loss prevention, and rights management. Office 365 Enterprise Preview gives you the benefits of Office 365 ProPlus combined with Exchange Online, including archiving and legal hold to fully manage your company’s email in the cloud. It also includes SharePoint Online to manage and share documents, and Lync Online to allow you to conduct meetings and collaborate across remote teams and team members. Learn more about Office 365 Enterprise.

In addition to the Office Home Premium Preview, Office 365 ProPlus Preview, the Office 365 and Enterprise Small Business Preview, previews of individual products are available as well.

SharePoint – The newest SharePoint is designed to help everyone in your organization share content and ideas, organize teams and projects, and discover connections to get work done. Learn more. For IT Pros, try the SharePoint Server 2013 Preview

Exchange – The newest Exchange enables you to increase user productivity and keep your organization safe, while maintaining the control you need. Learn more. For IT Pros, try Exchange Server 2013 Preview

Lync – The newest Lync is an enterprise-ready, unified communications platform that connects people everywhere on Windows 8 and other devices. Learn more. For IT Pros, try the Lync Server 2013 Preview

Office Web Apps Server – With Office Web Apps Server, your users get browser-based productivity from nearly any device on your terms and within your own private network. For It Pros, try the Web Apps Server Preview

Project – The new Project offers flexible service or on-premises solutions for project portfolio management (PPM) and everyday work. Try it in these three versions: Project Online Preview, Project Server 2013 Preview, Project Professional 2013 Preview. Learn more. For IT Pros, try Project Server 2013 Preview, Try the Project Professional 2013 Preview

Visio – The new Visio lets you easily create professional, versatile diagrams that help you organize and make sense of complex information. Learn more. Try the Visio Professional 2013 Preview. Try the Visio Pro for Office 365 Preview

Office Professional Plus 2013 – For IT pros, you can also try the Office Professional Plus 2013 MSI-based installation, which includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, and Lync. Note that this is not the Click-to-Run installation used by Office 365 ProPlus and does not support fast streaming installation or side-by-side operation with older versions of Office. In addition, you must uninstall the existing version of Office on your PC to try Office Professional Plus 2013. For IT pros, try the MSI-based Office Professional Plus

By now you are probably saying what about Developers? What If I’m an IT Pro? Where can we go? The starting point for IT Pro and Developer is located at the bottom of the preview page.

Resources for developers will take you to MSDN. Access to code samples, the new cloud app model and much more will get you up and creating your own apps in no time.

Resources for IT pros will take you to TechNet also known as the TechCenter. The information you need to deploy the on-premises versions, learn about Office 365 cloud service and Office hosted services is available here in an easy to understand structure.

If you have questions or need to reach out to a community of experts, we have that available too. These forums are active and filled with Microsoft employees, MVP’s and knowledgeable users.

Office 365 has its own set of forums: http://community.office365.com/en-us/forums/default.aspx
Microsoft Answers Forums (for IWs): http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us

MSDN:

· Apps Category: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/apps
· Developing Apps for Office forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/appsforoffice
· Developing Apps for SharePoint forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/appsforsharepoint
· Office Dev Category: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/officedev
· Office 2013 Preview for Developers forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/officedevpreview
· Developing Apps for Office forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/appsforoffice
· SharePoint Category: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/sharepoint
· SharePoint 2013 Preview for Developers forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/sharepointdevpreview
· Developing Apps for SharePoint forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/appsforsharepoint

TechNet:

· Office IT Pro Category: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/officeitpro
· Office 2013 and Office 365 ProPlus Preview forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/officeitpropreview
· SharePoint Category: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/sharepoint
· SharePoint 2013 Preview for IT Professionals forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/sharepointitpropreview
· Exchange Category: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/exchangeserver
· Exchange Server 2013 Preview forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangeserverpreview
· Project Category as it appears on TechNet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/category/project
· Project Online forum as it appears on TechNet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-us/projectonline

Beth Petry,
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Office

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Webinar: Getting started training for Office 2010

This week Webinar I will show you some of the free tools we have on Office.com-you or your team-help more information with Office products. You can take part Office webinars at 9: 15 am Pacific on Tuesday. Go to http://aka.ms/offweb for complete information.

On Tuesday, I'll show you the Webinar:

Office supplies getting started page training tools to other opportunities for learning, Office, games and eBooks to teach your team Office

References for this Webinar:

Also: We have materials for getting started with Office 2007.

Learn more about Office webinars including an update plan at: http://aka.ms/offweb.

--Doug Thomas

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Get Started with the Ember JavaScript Framework

Get Started with the Ember JavaScript Framework « The ADC Blog function clearSearch() {document.search_form.s.value = "";} .recentcomments a{display:inline !important;padding:0 !important;margin:0 !important;}adobe.com      The ADC Blog / Get Started with the Ember JavaScript Frameworkby brinaldi  

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Tips for Getting Started with Photoshop CS6

Tips for Getting Started with Photoshop CS6 « Julieanne Kost's Blog function clearSearch() {document.search_form.s.value = "";} Julieanne Kost's Blog / Tips for Getting Started with Photoshop CS6ADDITIONAL INFORMATIONBio, Contact and Artists StatementLightroom Video TutorialsPhotoshop Video TutorialsSchedule of EventsAdditional ResourcesPortfoliowww.jkost.comby Julieanne Kost  

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Getting started Tip # 1: A notebook set

Want to you get started with OneNote? This post is the first in a series about the basics.

Some of you want to know what is OneNote. It is the ultimate digital notebook. Consider you can collect it as a huge container, and organize all kinds of information. You can use it as a guestbook, photo album, research notebook, and more. Want a OneNote notebook is as a traditional notebook organized, except you can add or delete many sections and pages as you.

Today you will learn how to:

Establish a NotebookAdd sections and page name sections and pages

Establish a new notebook

Here, you can see how OneNote is organised. Notebooks in the left hand column listed sections are the tabs on top and sides in each section are listed in the right column.

To create a new notebook:

Go to file, and then click new.Select my computer. (Later tips will save your notebook, discuss on the Web or on a network site of the company.)Name your notebook, and then click create notebook.

Your new notebook with a section already opens, and you can want it as many sections as you.

A notebook to a new section:

You will see a tab with a star on it the right of a section tab.Click on the selected tab, create a new section.Each a new section add an another marked tab on the right side opens.

To name a section:

Name your sections by right-clicking on the section tab. Select Rename, and type a name for the section.

Add a new page:

Click above on the right column on new page .A new page is automatically added to the list.

To name a new page:

Type the title on the page itself, and the tab page automatically populates with the name.

Now, where you laptop is set up, you can begin things into it. Tip # 2 read to learn how to do.

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Helping You Get Started

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Perhaps you've heard about the advantages of Microsoft Office 365, and want to give it a try. Or maybe you've already completed a 30-day trial and are ready to subscribe on an ongoing basis.  The question is: which plan should I subscribe to?

To make your choice easy, we've updated our Office 365 website to help you quickly select the right plan for your organization.  Now, from a single page, you can compare all the subscription plans side-by-side, including the specific features and prices of each. You can see which plans come with a free, 30-day trial and find organization suited for your the plan best's specific size and needs.

To make our subscription plans easy to navigate, we've also grouped them into four categories: email, small business, midsize businesses and enterprises E1 & E3:

Email (online Exchange): This plan is suitable for organizations of any size that want to move their email, but not their productivity applications, to the cloud. Subscribers receive our web-based email service Exchange online, along with shared calendars, anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, and Active Directory integration. Cost: $5 per user/month. Small Business (P1): This plan is ideal for organizations with 50 or fewer employees. In addition to web-based email complete with anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, it offers instant messaging, voice and video conferencing, and web-based viewing and editing of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files. It also includes a team site for sharing files, an external website, and Microsoft community support. Cost: $6 per user/month.Midsize businesses & enterprises (E1): The basic plan is appropriate for medium and large enterprises that want to move email, communications, and collaboration to the cloud, while keeping their productivity applications on-premises. It offers web-based email, shared calendars, instant messaging and video conferencing. Plus it includes a SharePoint intranet supporting up to 300 sub sites, Active Directory integration, configurable anti-spam filtering and 24 x 7 customer support. Cost: $10 per user/month.Midsize businesses & enterprises (E3): The premier plan is suitable for medium and large enterprises that are taking a hybrid approach to the cloud and want to combine their cloud-based and on-premises versions of Office into a single plan. It includes everything in the basic plan plus web-based viewing and editing of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files. It also comes with a desktop version subscription of Office Professional plus 2010 for up to five devices per user. And it offers unlimited email storing and archiving, and hosted voicemail support. Cost: $24 per user/month.

You can subscribe to a plan right from our website, or sign up a for a 30-day free trial. You can also watch demos of Office 365, and view answers to frequently asked questions. Please check it outand tell US what you think. We welcome your questions and comments.

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Getting started with Web Design part 2 - becoming a designer - tools and software

Before starting as a web designer, you need the right kit. We have our own personal list here, but keep in mind that everyone has different opinions on what software is the best, with a million different suggestions for each type of employment.

Our list includes what are generally considered the most popular tools. They offer also the largest amount of help and tutorials, so that they are perfect for beginners.

Equipment

You obviously need a PC for web design. You may think that you already have a PC read this, but is good enough? A slow or old PC will work against you as a designer.

If you can afford the price, many programmers prefer to use a Mac. If you are on a budget or simply prefer Windows properly, you will be not any disadvantage that many popular tools work on both platforms.

Having a large amount of RAM is the most important factor for designers. You will find often yourself opening several intensive programs in memory at once. With these programs to communicate with each other eat fast memory, so you will need at least 2 GB to work effectively. Something more than 4 GB tends to be overkill now.

Because you often working with 3D graphics and video editing, you do not need a particularly fast processor. If you are on a tight budget, you can upgrade the memory in your computer for about £ 30, which should give you good speed boost if your computer is several years old.

Other extras, you should consider are a graphics tablet and dual monitors. These will greatly increase your productivity, but can be expensive.

Software

o of graphic editing: the jury is still out on which program is best for beginners to learn graphic editing. The argument is generally between Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop. There are a variety of training manuals for both, and it is worth your time to become familiar with both anyway. Adobe Illustrator is also a very useful to have on hand.
o Web browsers: a major challenge for Web designers is to make their site the same look on every single web browser. Because each browser interprets different things, you must ensure that they act as you expect. Download Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari, because these are the browsers that will be used by your customers. Fortunately, all are free!
o Design: hands down the best tool for Web designers is Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver let's you mess with all kinds of page elements visually, so you can actually see the effect of your changes. Other features as a system of color for your code and your auto-completion will come very handy for beginners.

The cost of the software will be the main problem for many young designers. There are expensive alternatives to Adobe products, however. Nvu can replace Dreamweaver and GIMP substitute Photoshop. Both on Windows and are completely free, but will be able to offer the range of tutorials and guides available for the largest programs of name. Adobe often offers tests of 30 days of their products, so you can try to see if they are worth the high initial cost.

Although there are several other programs needed (or desired) by designers, with a few major programs, you should be able to learn a lot on trade.

A freelance webdesigner