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I just got back from a week in Ventura, CA, working for Lynda.com.  If you don't know them, they are one of the best training resources out there for most things related to web development.  Way back at Dreamweaver 3 and Photoshop 5.5, I learned these programs via Lynda.com Hands-On Training books.  They've since put a huge emphasis on their online training video library. The videos are fantastic and very helpful for explaining how to do just about anything in the Adobe or web world.

Back in June, Lynda.com made their first push into the Joomla world with Joe LeBlanc's Joomla 1.5 Essential Training. They've been hearing requests for template and CSS training ever since.  I contacted them about the time the Essentials video came out, and I've been working on developing two sets of movies for them.

The  first course recorded was "Joomla! Creating and Editing Custom Templates."  This just focuses on how to transform your static HTML page to a Joomla template and goes over some common errors and problems you might have installing your templates.

The second course was "Joomla! Advanced CSS". This goes over some interesting styling you can do within Joomla to make your site look a little more customized and less template-y.  While the templates course focuses on templates (with a little on CSS as needed), this course focuses on CSS, with a little bit about templates when needed.

Now that the movies are created, they go to editing, QA, and production, so it will take a little while before they're ready to be out.  Watch this space for a release announcement!