Working with Adobe’s two most powerful vector applications doesn’t need to be difficult, especially when using them together effectively. Instructor Mordy Golding shows how to set up Illustrator with Flash in mind, how to work with groups, layers and styles, and explains 3D effects and artwork mapping. Golding also demonstrates how to work with type, how to create and use symbols, and provides insider hints and guidelines. Emphasis is on creating Illustrator files that will work most efficiently and smoothly in Flash using Live Paint, Live Trace, and Live Effects. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

Running Time: 5.5 hours
Encore DVD 2.0 Essential Training demonstrates each step involved in authoring a DVD with Encore DVD 2.0. From planning a project, gathering content, and creating navigation to bit budgeting, authoring (creating and burning), and testing, instructor Chad Perkins teaches users how to complete a professional DVD project. Exercise files accompany the training, allowing you to follow along and learn at your own pace.

Running Time: 6.5 hours
From the basics of audio recording to creating a complete CD project, Audition 2.0 Essential Training teaches you all you need to know to record, mix, edit, and master professional digital music and audio. Whether your goal is to make smart-sounding podcasts or produce professional video soundtracks or radio commercials, instructor Bruce Williams will help you get there. Bruce starts out with exploring the Audition interface, workspace, and terminology, then moves on to file management, project management, and inserting and recording sounds. The training concludes with an extensive set of tutorials on effects, filters, and editing.

Once you’ve obtained A+ certification to show you know computer basics, the natural progression in the IT career path is to learn networking and certify your knowledge with Network+. This makes current and future employers confident that you can be an integral part of developing and maintaining their business computer network. An individual certified as a Network+ technician has proven him or herself to be fundamentally competent; has proven a solid base of knowledge and expertise in networking technologies.The 2005 Network+ Series builds on the quality instruction delivered in the A+ certification series. It covers all the networking knowledge crucial to Network+ certification standards, including the 2005 update to the Network+ certification exams. CompTIA designed this updated exam to ensure that you have the real world ability to work in the networking environments in use today and planned for tomorrow. Some of these important updates include wireless networking, gigabit Ethernet, and improved security practices.The training is very good. You’ll be amazed at the amount of information presented in this series. True to the CBT Nuggets concept, nothing is taken for granted. The series starts very basic but then progresses through intermediate and advanced networking concepts to give you a full spectrum of networking knowledge.

In this series you’ll learn the 5 Steps of a Hack. You’ll also learn legal considerations for working as an Ethical Hacker. You’ll learn all about passive intelligence gathering, and get suggestions for gathering critical information through social engineering.
Other things covered in the Certified Ethical Hacker Series include TCP exploits, ICMP exploits, and other network reconnaissance techniques; pulling packets out of network communications to sniff passwords, hubs, and switches; SNMP and DNS exploits; password cracking; gaining unauthorized access to a wireless network; erasing your tracks after penetrating a network; web and file exploits too dangerous to name; and much more.

You can take advantage of these opportunities by combining your technical skills with an understanding of business-oriented security strategy. With this combination of knowledge and skills, you can be trusted to oversee both planning and implementation of security procedures.Our Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) Series will help you gain this understanding, and prepare you for high-paying jobs such as Senior Network Security Engineer, Senior Security Systems Analyst, and Senior Security Administrator. It also maps to the exam objectives for SSCP Certification from (ISC)2 to prepare you for the certification exam.

The Linux Operating System continues to grow in popularity and acceptance world-wide and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has designed a certification program to certify the competency of system administration using the Linux operating system and its associated tools.This training maps to the LPIC-1 exams 101 and 102 and teaches you how to work at the Linux command line, perform simple maintenance, support users, and carry out backup, restore, shutdown and reboot commands. You’ll also gain the skills to install and configure a workstation and connect it to a LAN, or a stand-alone PC via modem to the Internet.Instructor Perry Fizzano covers all the topics in a series of easy to comprehend videos that are great for the beginner and expert alike. He even shares his own Linux experiences along the way to give you a better understanding of what using Linux is all about.There are 19 videos providing more than 9 hours of instruction. A basic understanding of computers and networking is suggested prior to viewing this training.

There’s an old saying that goes “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions helps you learn how to plan a LAN/WAN infrastructure using analysis and modeling techniques to design a network using Cisco components.This CCDA training is cutting edge and focuses on the newest Cisco PDIOO (Plan, Design, Implement, Operate, Optimize) analysis and methodology as well as teaching Cisco Enterprise Composite Network Modeling as the next generation beyond the Cisco 3-layer Design (Access/Distribution/Core). You’ll learn modular analysis and modeling along with the newest multilayer switching technology, routing essentials, IP telephony, IP addressing with NAT and IPv6, Management and more.Instructor Michael Shannon has broken the topics down into easy to understand segments filled with information that you can readily put to use on the job. If you are already certified as a CCNA, this training will give you a lot of background and theory on network design to make you a more knowledgeable and effective IT professional.Exam 640-861 DESGN is the only exam required to earn the Cisco Certified Design Associate certification. A basic understanding of Cisco networking such as a CCNA certification or equivalent knowledge is recommended before viewing these videos. The training contains 16 videos providing more than 8 hours of instruction.

The Internet provides a tremendous opportunity to reach potential customers on a worldwide level, faster and easier than has ever been possible before. There are over 390 million people online throughout the world today, and this number is growing larger every day at an unprecedented rate. With this many people online, it’s no surprise that the amount of search engine traffic throughout the world is staggering. The choices offered online, in terms of quantity and quality of websites, is also tremendous. It’s easy to get lost in the crowd and many new websites have failed because of poor search engine optimization.VTC Author James Gonzalez is here to help you rise above the web noise and get noticed. From keyword placement to the best utilization of code, learn important tips you must know as well as common mistakes you must avoid, to be noticed on the web. To begin learning today, simply click on one of the Search Engine Optimization movie links.

The CBT Nuggets Cisco CCNA Certification Package is a comprehensive collection of training videos that completely covers the objectives for the recently updated 640-801 CCNA exam. But to say that this series is merely a test prep tool is like calling the Mona Lisa “merely a painting of a girl”. The CCNA series is intended to enrich your IT career. It’s designed to be your ticket to IT utopia, a career working in the exciting field of network infrastructure and technology.This series is also an excellent source of career continuation training, and a solid on-the-job reference. A network engineer is alot like a medical doctor. There is a great deal of information to know, there is a requirement to be continually learning and advancing your mind, but there is also a time when you need good references. A successful doctor has a broad range of knowledge, but knows when and how to call in a specialist for a particularly difficult case. Similarly, a CCNA will need a reference that he or she can rely on. This video series is your “referral to a specialist”. When you don’t feel comfortable with a particular area of deployment or maintenance, just pop in the 30-minute video covering that concept and implementation and you’re ready to go.