If you have already taken an nti course or feel you’ve gained extensive knowledge of  Adobe products through work or self-teaching, then you might be pleased to hear that you can also book our exam days separately. This means you could achieve accreditation without having to repeat learning.

In an increasingly competitive world, professionals need to be more than familiar users of digital communications technology to be successful. Certification can help provide the added credential for instructors as well as open new opportunities for industry professionals. Adobe offers multiple options for students and instructors to validate their digital media skills. This certification is a credential that validates entry-level skills needed to plan, design, build, and maintain effective communications by using different forms of digital media.

Benefits of Adobe Certification

Differentiate yourself from competitors

Get your resume noticed

Attract and win new business

Gain recognition from your employer

Leverage the power of the Adobe brand

Exams Offered by nti Leeds

Web Communication using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Web Communication using Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Rich Media Communication using Adobe Flash CS4, Rich Media Communication using Adobe Flash CS3, Visual Communication using Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Visual Communication using Adobe Photoshop CS3

If you have already taken an nti course or feel you’ve gained extensive knowledge of Apple products through work or self-teaching, then you might be pleased to hear that you can also book our exam days separately. This means you could achieve accreditation without having to repeat learning.

Differentiate yourself to employers, and prospective clients as an Apple Certified Pro, and gain a competitive edge in the ever-changing job market. Apple certification programs create a benchmark for assessing users’ proficiency in Apple’s professional applications. By passing certification exams, you become an Apple Certified Pro for a chosen application.

Benefits of Apple Certification

Differentiate yourself and your business

Gain recognition for technical competency

Build credibility with clients and employers

Increase visibility and enhance your reputation in a competitive marketplace

Publicise your certifications on the Apple Certified Professional Registry

Display your personalised certificate and a logo that distinguishes you as an Apple Certified professional

Exams Offered by nti Leeds:

Aperture 101, Color 101, DVD Studio Pro 101, Final Cut Pro 101, Final Cut Pro 300, Logic 101, Logic 301, Mac OS X Support Essentials 10.5 and 10.6, Mac OS X Server Essentials 10.5 and 10.6, Motion 101 and Shake 200

Further Apple Exams are available please contact us for any specific requirements

This bootcamp-style training workshop is organised into 5 one-day modules, and will provide attendees with knowledge and skills in the design of service-oriented technology architectures, service-oriented solutions, and related infrastructure. You will gain a solid understanding of the service-orientation design paradigm including all related design principles and the effects of their application.

Fundamental SOA concepts and terminology will be covered and be further supplemented with exposure to relevant SOA technologies. The different forms of service-oriented technology will also be explored, including the dependencies that exist between architectural levels. You will gain proficiency with the use of industry design patterns and service-oriented design processes. You will furthermore have an appreciation of how service design fits into the overall SOA project delivery lifecycle and how design approaches and techniques may ultimately affect service governance.

SOA Systems Inc. is a leading global provider of vendor-neutral training, certification and consulting services. Our trainer for this workshop is Paul Buhler. All course materials, study guides and exams fees are included in the price of the course and each attendee will receive a certificate of attendance for completion of the course.

Any organsisations from the education and public sector can also receive a 10% discount on the course.

Plus 3 for 2 offer on course registrations; this course cannot be  taken in conjunction with any other offer. Please contact us for further details.

Why not get trained by the authors and maintainers of Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)?

This course, taught by experienced professional instructors from Internet Systems Consortium uses a mix of lecture, discussion and hands-on laboratory work. This interactive training is focused on giving students the knowledge and skills to enable the most effective design and management of services based on ISC software.

Our trainer for this class is  Alan Clegg who, since joining the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) staff in 2007, has been creating and providing workshops and training for ISC customers and users. These training classes and workshops have been delivered across the globe to private corporations such as Telstra, Cloudshield and Neustar and publicly to a vast array of system administrators and network operators.

Why not get trained by the authors and maintainers of Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)?

This course, taught by experienced professional instructors from Internet Systems Consortium uses a mix of lecture, discussion and hands-on laboratory work. This interactive training is focused on giving students the knowledge and skills to enable the most effective design and management of services based on ISC software.

Our trainer for this class is  Alan Clegg who, since joining the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) staff in 2007, has been creating and providing workshops and training for ISC customers and users. These training classes and workshops have been delivered across the globe to private corporations such as Telstra, Cloudshield and Neustar and publicly to a vast array of system administrators and network operators.

Talend is THE open source data integration solution and rivals the market’s leading proprietary solutions.  It’s powerful and open technology tools allow users to respond efficiently to a wide range of needs including:  supplying datawarehouses, synchronizing databases, accessing Web services and transforming various file formats (XML, VSAM, delimited, positional, etc.)

Using actual case studies throughout the course, this four-day training will allow students to obtain “Foundation” status for Talend Open Studio.

Talend is the recognised market leader in open source data integration. More than 1000 paying customers around the globe, including Yahoo!, Virgin Mobile, Sony and Swiss Life, use the Talend Integration Suite of products and services to optimise the costs of data integration, ETL and data quality. With more than seven million lifetime downloads and 1.5 million core product downloads, Talend™s solutions are the most widely used and deployed data integration solutions in the world. The company has major offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners. For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.

Talend is the recognised market leader in open source data integration. More than 1000 paying customers around the globe, including Yahoo!, Virgin Mobile, Sony and Swiss Life, use the Talend Integration Suite of products and services to optimise the costs of data integration, ETL and data quality. With more than seven million lifetime downloads and 1.5 million core product downloads, Talend™s solutions are the most widely used and deployed data integration solutions in the world. The company has major offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners. For more information, please visit http://www.talend.com.

Talend’s flagship product, Talend Open Studio, is the first open source data integration tool on the market. It is primarily used for integration between operational systems, as well as or ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, and for migration.

This is a one day introductory course to the Magento Ecommerce system. Magento is an awesomely powerful cutting edge open source ecommerce package that is quickly gaining a large following due to its impressive array of powerful enterprise level features.

This course will give you the background understanding and practical skills needed to get the best out of your Magento store. You will leave with a clearer understanding of some of the more complex principles in Magento and will learn how to leverage some of the core features of Magento to get the most out of your store.

Joseph Edmonds, ecommerce specialist and trainer, recently asked some questions surrounding the Magento software and training course. Find out more by clicking here…

A closer look at Google and the lesser known free tools they offer to help run your business. The course covers topics from day to day spreadsheet and word-processing  software, to sophisticated market research tools that you can start to benefit from instantly. The hands-on teaching from nti’s trainer will ensure that you leave the course with a much fuller understanding of the tools Google offer to help small businesses but also how to utilise these tools within your business.

These tools are a route to improving communications within your business and with your clients. Using these tools can help to reduce costs and impact on productivity and effectiveness. In addition you can more effectively track and analyse the sales process, and increase marketing activity.

Wordpress is the ideal platform for creating simple content managed websites and blogs due to it’s intuitive and easy to use nature and open source standards. Wordpress is by far the most popular website management software on the web with 6 years of development, countless plugins and themes; it can be tailored to suit almost any website need. The hands-on teaching from nti’s trainer will ensure that you leave the Wordpress course with a full understanding of how to fully integrate a html design into Wordpress and finely tune your website for Search Engine Optimisation, performance and best practices.

You will also be provided with a Wordpress Pack, which includes example and tutorials from the day, recommend web hosts, plugins, SEO tips and further reading and resources. The pack will  ensure that you always have reference material when you come to developing Wordpress site in the future.

Do you like the sound of the benefits offered by open source software but don’t know where to start? Are you baffled by the jargon but would like to be able to navigate the open source landscape to find a solution that works for your organisation?

Join us for this full day session where we explore the current open source landscape and will attempt to de-mystify the buzzwords and acronyms surrounding them. The morning session will take a look at the leading open source alternatives that organisations can use to deliver the enterprise applications that their business demands whilst keeping development costs low and software quality high. The session will also provide some ‘live’ demonstrations of developing with the Java open source technology stack. The afternoon session will focus on business intelligence (BI) software and will take a look at an Ingres and Jaspersoft integrated stack that makes installation and integration easier and less expensive to manage. This session will demonstrate how to create, publish and distribute reports as well as the techniques available to perform analysis on business data.

Google Android is the first complete, open and free mobile stack for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and key applications. Take a look a this exciting new platform and learn abut some of the in and outs of developing rich mobile applications using Android. This course is a hands-on guide to designing and building mobile applications using Google Android to explore the potential of developing applications on the Android SDK.

This extends the “Google Android Programming Essentials” training course and is focused on designing, building and delivering a mobile application through example exercises. It will introduce some core API features that will allow developers to utilise phone features including databases and  media players.

The day will involve the use of Android enabled phones supplied by the NTI.

This course covers the requirements necessary to successfully become an Adobe Certified Expert in Flash CS4. The official workbook from Adobe systems is included with the course, as well as sample exam questions.

It is designed to give professional creatives the skills to use Flash CS4 as an essential part of the Adobe Creative Suite. It is a combination of instruction, hands on exercises and home study that will give the creative and professional edge.

This three-day, hands-on course introduces the primary feature set and interface of Adobe After Effects CS4.

This course covers the requirements necessary to successfully become an Adobe Certified Expert in After Effects CS4. The official workbook from Adobe systems is included with the course, as well as sample exam questions.

It is designed to give professional creatives the skills to use After Effects CS4 as an essential part of the Adobe Creative Suite. It is a combination of instruction, hands on exercises and home study that will give the creative and professional edge.

Create eye catching designs and images for print and multimedia using Adobe Photoshop

Improve your digital photos with editing techniques

Save time by learning handy shortcuts and improving workflow

Easily format and save pictures for the web, pdf and other applications

Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard and professionals’ choice for image editing, graphic design, photographic retouching, web development, multimedia, post-production, animation and more besides. User-friendly tools and features allow for complex tasks to be carried out quickly and easily and new users can achieve sophisticated results in a relatively short period of time. This two day course is recommended for all levels of Photoshop users with the core training delivered on tool usage and color correction. You will learn how to create and retouch digital images and manage and control your workflow for better image optimisation. Advanced users will also benefit greatly from this course with many tips and tricks to help increase productivity.

This three day course includes two introductory days plus a recap prep day to help prepare for the ACA exam. This certification is a credential that validates entry-level skills needed to plan, design, build, and maintain effective communications by using different forms of digital media. This course is delivered in two sections please see below dates for details

Create and deliver rich interactive and engaging content

Reach 99% of internet viewers using Flash Players

Produce basic banner animations to Flash web pages

Master the basic skills you need to get up-and-running with Adobe Flash. In this course you will learn the basics of Adobe’s industry-standard web animation and multimedia publishing software. Learn how to produce creative animations with Flash’s drawing tools which help bring graphics to life through motion and shape tweens while incorporating images, video and audio. Learn to optimise and publish your content for delivery on the Web and quickly produce high quality 3D animations to help maintain a dynamic and engaging website

This three day course includes two introductory days plus a recap prep day to help prepare for the ACA exam. This certification is a credential that validates entry-level skills needed to plan, design, build, and maintain effective communications by using different forms of digital media. This course is delivered in two sections please see our course course dates below and our calendar for details

This three-day, hands-on course introduces the primary feature set and interface of Adobe Photoshop CS4. In this course you learn to perform image editing functions while familiarising yourself with the user interface. Topics include basic setup, adjusting and customizing preferences and settings, working with layers, importing and exporting images, working with channels and selections, working with and managing colour, and exporting for print and for the web.

This course covers the requirements necessary to successfully become an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop CS4. The official workbook from Adobe systems is included with the course, as well as sample exam questions.

It is designed to give professional creatives the skills to use Photoshop CS4 as an essential part of the Adobe Creative Suite. It is a combination of instruction, hands on exercises and home study that will give the creative and professional edge.

This three-day, hands-on course introduces the primary feature set and interface of Adobe Dreamweaver CS4.

This course covers the requirements necessary to successfully become an Adobe Certified Expert in Dreamweaver CS4. The official workbook from Adobe systems is included with the course, as well as sample exam questions. The exam can be sat at the end of the course.

It is designed to give professional creatives the skills to use Dreamweaver CS4 as an essential part of the Adobe Creative Suite. It is a combination of instruction, hands on exercises and home study that will give the creative and professional edge.

Design, develop and maintain standards-based websites and applications

Build world-class websites with one of the industry’s leading web authoring tool

Use CSS stylesheets for design templates, rollovers and page layout

This three-day Adobe Web Communication using Dreamweaver ACA course provides the foundation for building and maintaining websites that include multiple pages with images and links using Dreamweaver. The course provides web designers the skills to create, design, manage edit and publish professional websites. This course provides practical hands-on exercises with an overview of Dreamweaver’s tools for building and maintaining web sites. Focus is on creating multiple pages with text, images, and links

This three day course includes two introductory days plus a recap prep day to help prepare for the ACA exam. This certification is a credential that validates entry-level skills needed to plan, design, build, and maintain effective communications by using different forms of digital media. This course is delivered in two sections please see our course course dates below and our calendar for details

nti Leeds was one of the first training centres to deliver  iPhone apps development training in July 2009. We have now run this course a number of times, and are using  new materials  developed specifically  following client feedback.  Each delivery is restricted to a maximum of eight delegates to ensure an excellent training experience.  Our trainer, Dave Verwer  is an experienced apps developer, so you can  be assured that you will have access to the expertise that will enable you get the most from your investment of time and money in this training. In January 2010 one of our delegates had flown over 10,000 miles to attend this course here in Leeds - a fantatsic endorsement of the quality of what we are delivering. Read more about our globetrotting delegate here.

Learn hands-on how to use the major tools and APIs in the iPhone SDK 3.0, and how they fit together to develop mobile applications like the pros. Get hands-on coding experience and answers to your questions so you can start creating your own iPhone application with confidence. Plus save your development time time by focusing exclusively on iPhone development with expert guidance.

Learn to use the iPhone SDK’s Xcode, Interface Builder, and UIKit framework to develop sophisticated, full-featured iPhone applications. This training course will enable you to use many of the powerful features of Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, and the various iPhone SDK libraries and frameworks.  This is a practical course delivered in our specialsit  Mac Suite here at Old Broadcasting House.