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New Book from the Omniversity’s Chris Mills

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Hear ye, hear ye! Chris Mills, open standards evangelist and Omniversity tutor par excellence has recently been published by Peachpit, a specialist publisher that deals in technology textbooks, ebooks and videos for creative people.

Chris has run a series of web design foundations course for the Omniversity, from HTML basics to Advanced CSS. The latest on offer are the CSS Basics, an all day introductory session to the marvels of CSS starting on Saturday 13th October, and the Advanced CSS course, starting on the 3rd November. His new book, ‘Practical CSS3: Develop And Design’ is available both in print and as an ebook and can be bought here. (more…)

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2.8 Hours Later is Here!

Monday, September 24th, 2012

Smash Hit zombie chase game, 2.8 Hours Later, is coming to Manchester and will be setting up their HQ here at MadLab.

The game is shrouded in secrecy and is guaranteed to set pulses racing. Players start from a secret location in the city centre and then have 2.8 Hours to make it across town to the survivors’ camp.

The game is described by its creators, Slingshot as a ‘thrill-packed roller coaster ride of zombie movie action’.

Tickets are available from the 2.8 Hours Later website. Take a look and see if you can make it through the nightmarish world of the zombie apocalypse to the safety of the zombie disco!

Image credit: Amy Faith

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YRS Manchester thanks you!

Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

Manchester YRS at the Custard Factory in Birmingham

In early August MadLab hosted Young Rewired State 2012. If you didn’t catch the goings-on on the website, check out what we got up to here. We also captured the week on camera and video – click the link to see all our lovely mugs, captured for posterity.

We kept you up to date with what the YRSers were up to, but there was a veritable army of support from the community and we’d like to take a moment to thank each and every one of them.
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New WordPress video!

Wednesday, August 29th, 2012

Check out our new video featuring Mike Little, co-founder of WordPress and developer extraordinaire about the upcoming WordPress courses at the Omniversity.

WordPress at the Omniversity with Mike Little from Prohyena on Vimeo.

This autumn we are running WordPress for Beginners, a two day course (22nd – 23rd September) where you will cover all the basic skills that you need to develop your first WordPress site. Following that is the Intermediate WordPress (20th-21st October) course, perfect for those wanting to further hone their skills in WordPress.

Next year we plan to run Advanced WordPress and WordPress for Developers, so stay tuned for more information. Drop us a line if you are would like us to contact you about these courses.

Book a place for the WordPress for Beginners’ course here.

Book a place for the Intermediate WordPress course here.

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New CSS courses at the Omniversity

Friday, August 24th, 2012

This autumn the Omniversity will be running two CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) courses: CSS Basics and Advanced CSS.

CSS enables web developers to create imaginative, beautiful and accessible websites. CSS makes it easy to change the style of a website and by separating style and layout from basic HTML content, reduces server bandwidth requirements, ensuring faster downloads.

Both courses will be run by Chris Mills, open standards evangelist, tech writer and developer relationship manager at Opera Software. Chris edits dev.opera.com and writes articles on open-web technologies for his own site A List Apart, .net magazine and more. He is the author of Practical CSS3: Develop and Design (Peachpit Press, 2012) and co-authored Interact with Web Standards (New Riders, 2010).
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