The Publishing Training Centre

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publishing's digital future


Digital and Web Publishing


Courses for anyone involved in publishing on the Internet or on CD-ROM.


Agile Project Management

This course is a general overview of the Agile project management system concepts.

Business Planning for Digital Products

How to justify the business case for new digital products.

Cascading Style Sheets NEW

This two day course provides delegates with hands-on experience of creating and editing CSS. At the end of the course they will be confident to design a web page from scratch with CSS.

Commissioning Rich Media NEW

This one-day course will allow you to commission and project manage video, audio and animation productions efficiently.

Developing an E-book Strategy NEW

This one day course will give you the fundamentals for developing a sound e-book strategy that will help you avoid the pitfalls and maximise the revenue opportunities.

Developing E-learning Products NEW

By the end of this one-day training, delegates will be able to identify types of e-learning products most appropriate for their markets, evaluate the organisational infrastructure needed to deliver them and understand the range of suppliers available.

Developing Mobile Apps NEW

The course is ideal for publishers who are interested in the strategic implications of entering the mobile app market. All of the tools required for apps development will be discussed and compared and you will consider the important changes that need to be made to your workflow and content production.

Digital Editing NEW

This course is designed to increase knowledge and understanding specifically of editing content within the digital environment.

Digital Proofreading NEW

This course is designed to enable delegates to understand the purpose and methods of proofreading on-screen and to gain knowledge of what to look for in the online, on-screen environment.

EPUB Essentials NEW

This course looks at the various common file formats used in digital publishing and how to use these to create e-books that can be targeted successfully to the reading systems on the market.

Flash for Digital Publishers NEW

This intensive and practical two-day course is intended for digital publishers and designers and uses small example projects to focus on areas of interest to publishers, such as text, XML, interactive word games, making projects reusable and adapting projects.

Harnessing Social Media

This two-day course will help you cut through the jargon and the hype about social media and Web 2.0, give you a realistic understanding of what you can expect to achieve and teach you about the risks involved and how to avoid practices that could see you branded as unethical.

Instructional Design

Master the principles of instructional design and create e-learning products that really work.

Introduction to Web Technologies

If you are new to managing a website and need to untangle the more technical language involved in a safe learning environment, this is the course for you.

Managing Digital Projects

Provides students with the skills needed to manage digital products that are the very latest technologies in a climate of constant change, using iterative project management techniques.

Moving into Digital

Learn how to adapt current publishing knowledge and experience into digital formats.


Search Engine Optimisation

Practical techniques to help boost your search engine rankings.

Selling and Marketing Digital Products

This course will teach you how to ensure that your sales and marketing plans for digital products are designed to exploit every possible advantage in the market place.

The Business Case for XML NEW

This one-day course aims to address the key strategic issues a business needs to consider before going down the XML route.

The Digital Publisher NEW

The course is intended to cover all the aspects of putting together a digital product from initial conception and planning through to launch.

WordPress for Beginners NEW

This course will help you get up and running with WordPress quickly and equip you with the knowledge, hands-on experience and confidence needed to run your WordPress website or blog.

Working with XML

The basics of XML for those who have to manage the production of electronic content for a range of applications.

Writing Specifications for Digital Projects NEW

This one-day course will provide you with an introduction to writing and maintaining written specifications for digital projects (including websites, ebooks and software). It is relevant to both in-house and outsourced projects.


See also:


Adobe Acrobat: Efficient Use of PDFs

Digital Licensing Agreements

Digital Marketing for Publishers

Digital Publishing Law

Dreamweaver for Web Managers

InDesign 1

Writing and Editing for the Web 1

Writing and Editing for the Web 2


If you can't find what you're looking for among our existing courses, we would be delighted to hear your suggestions.