Are you looking to upgrade your operating systems?

Linux is now a mainstream operating system. This course will help you make Linux a part of your network and make the most of its stability and cost advantage.

You’ll learn to integrate Linux effortlessly synchronising users with your Windows Active Directory and Windows file-shares.

We’ll show you how you can continue to use your windows based software with WINE.

Learn to configure the desktop so that your users will feel comfortable with their new computers.

Save time in image deployment using Clonezilla. Find out about office alternatives and how you can access your MS Exchange Mailboxes with a free email client.

You will have a dramatic effect on your IT support effort and expenditure! Your boss will love you!

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

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.

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.

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

This course covers the requirements necessary to successfully become an Adobe Certified Expert in Dreamweaver. 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 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

The 4 day iPhone Development training course here at nti Leeds provides everything needed for developers to get up and running with the iPhone SDK and Objective C. The course focusses on providing comprehensive grounding in iPhone and iPad apps development techniques. Delegates will come away with not only the ability to build iPhone and iPad apps, but also an understanding of the concepts and patterns using in iPhone development.

Each delivery is restricted to a maximum of eight delegates to ensure an excellent training experience, and is held in our mac training suite with the developer environment set up for you.

The course has been designed, and is delivered by, Dave Verwer, developer of Balloons! and several other successful iPhone applications.

Dave describes himself as primarily an iPhone and iPad developer, rather than a full-time trainer, and so has experience in all aspects of designing, developing, shipping and marketing successful iPhone apps. Dave has been developing with the iPhone SDK since it was first released and previously to that developed several applications for Mac OS X.

We believe Dave’s expertise and track record  makes this course unique.   In January 2010 one of our delegates had flown over 10,000 miles to attend this course here in Leeds - a fantastic endorsement of the quality that we deliver. Read more about our globetrotting delegate here.

Course Details:

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.

The WordPress course is designed to provide you with a solid foundation on how to fully set-up and utilise Wordpress using a step-by-step guide. It is suitable to people of any technical skill level and is filled with numerous examples and hands-on exercises. You will learn about basic Search Engine Optimise and the best Wordpress plug-ins (add-ons) to use for marketing and promoting your website.  By the end of the first day you will have a fully functional professional website that is content managed using WordPress.

Understand what Android is, without the hype

Create Android user interface (activities)

Design and build a simple mobile application

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.

The OS X User Overview is a one-day preliminary course for those new to Mac OS X who need to prepare for the Mac OS X Support Essentials course, or other technical Mac OS X training courses. This course focuses on getting to know the foundations of Mac OS X, with topics ranging from efficient window and application management to system customisation. You’ll also learn how to configure user accounts and manage files.

Create and deliver rich interactive and engaging content

Reach 99% of internet viewers using Flash Players

Get to grips with the Flash ActionScript language to produce sophisticated  Flash animation

The two-day ActionScript course provides the knowledge and hands-on experience developers needsto create dynamically generated event-driven animation and interactive games with Flash. The course teaches fundamental programming techniques utilising ActionScript 3.0 and by the end of this two-day course you will have a good understanding of the core features and functions of ActionScript and will be able to implement it effectively yourself.

Mac OS X Support Essentials is a three-day, hands-on course that provides an in-depth exploration of troubleshooting on Mac OS X. This course is designed to give you a tour of the breadth of functionality of Mac OS X and the best methods for effectively supporting users of Mac OS X systems. The course is a combination of lectures and hands-on case study exercises that provide practical real-world experience.

Snow Leopard Mac OS X Server Essentials is a four-day course designed to give technical coordinators and entry-level system administrators the skills, tools, and knowledge to implement and maintain a network that uses Mac OS X Server. Students learn how to install and configure Mac OS X Server to provide network-based services, such as file sharing, authentication, and printing. Tools for efficiently managing and deploying Mac OS X and software updates are also covered. The course is a combination of lectures and hands-on case study exercises that provide practical real-world experience.

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 two day Adobe Dreamweaver Introduction 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.

The Zend PHP 5 Certification training course prepares experienced PHP programmers for the challenge of passing the PHP 5 certification exam and achieving the status of Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE). This is a test preparation and PHP review course - it does not teach PHP. The content discusses important information about the exam itself and strategies for answering the exam questions, in addition to providing an in-depth review of the twelve certification topic areas. Participants are continually challenged to test their knowledge with focused quizzes. The course moves at a fast pace, and assumes at least an intermediate skill level in programming within PHP.

Once you have a site designed and implemented your website, you may need to vary the content on the pages dynamically

In this course, you will use Adobe Dreamweaver and PHP to create and administer dynamic database-driven sites

The two-day Adobe Dreamweaver Advanced  course teaches attendees the skills they need to make their sites more interactive with forms, behaviors and multimedia. In addition, attendees learn how to use templates, library items, and automation to eliminate redundant coding and work and to accelerate the pace of web site development. Finally, attendees learn how to make their sites accessible.

The Zend PHP II: Higher Structures advanced training course is designed to expand a beginning programmer’s understanding of the PHP language. This intermediate-level course builds upon knowledge gained in PHP I: Foundations. It utilises a hands-on approach with numerous examples and practical exercises, as well as a key development project, to enhance learning. You will also have the opportunity to use the Zend Studio IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to continue honing your coding skills utilising best practices and effective tools.

The PHP I: Foundations course is designed to provide non-programmers with a solid foundation in the PHP language. This course guides you through the basics of PHP with an experiential approach, filled with numerous examples and hands-on exercises, including substantial practice in coding a functional application. All of the exercises are designed to reinforce key learning. You will also have the opportunity to use the Zend Studio IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to start your coding adventures the easy and correct way! The Zend Training Center will allow you to code exercises live during the course with your instructor able to both see and coach your progress.