Workshops and Training
We'll help you and your team venture out onto the mobile web
Looking for hands-on training for essential mobile web topics? We offer half- and full-day workshops for developers, designers and strategists.
Cloud Four's Offerings
We teach the mobile web
Cloud Four offers training in several formats:
- Custom corporate workshops: We offer custom technical and strategic corporate workshops tailored to the skill level, interests and goals of your team. Contact us to get started!
- Workshops at events: Cloud Four mobile web workshops are already scheduled at web and mobile web conferences in North America and Europe during 2012. Check out our calendar for upcoming event workshops.
- Scheduled workshops for individuals: We offer scheduled technical workshops in lovely Portland, Oregon. Find a scheduled workshop.
Find a workshop
You can check out all of our upcoming scheduled workshops on our calendar.
Other ways to learn
- Cloud Four also offers consulting services. Contact us to see how we could help you and your team.
- We also wrote the book on how to get started on the mobile web: Head First Mobile Web (O'Reilly).
Find a workshop that fits you
Developers
If you're a website or application developer who is ready to strike out on the mobile web, our technical workshops can give you a leg up. We cover topics including:
- Responsive Web Design
- Mobile-first Responsive Web Design
- Front-end development with device APIs and frameworks
- Device detection and server-side content adaptation
- Testing and tools
- Performance boosters
If you're a dev, check out our workshop Zombie Apocalypse of Device Preparedness 101.
Designers and implementers
For web designers and implementers comfortable with HTML, CSS and perhaps basic JavaScript, we offer a design- and front-end focused workshop, covering topics like:
- Responsive Web Design
- Mobile-first Responsive Web Design
- Design best practices
- Image and content optimization
- Progressive enhancement tips
- Content and markup dos and don'ts
- Using CSS3 and HTML5 on devices
If you're a web designer or implementor, you may enjoy our workshop How to get from here to everywhere: Taking your web skills mobile.
Leaders and strategists
For decision makers, team leaders and curious strategists: get a grasp on the trends in mobile that matter for your business or organization.
- What's happening right now in the mobile space? What about next month? Next year?
- How do you decide devices to support?
- Apps versus mobile web? What makes sense and how to choose.
- Untangle some of the mysteries of mobile analytics
- Different ways to provide for your mobile users
- Adapting existing infrastructures to be mobile friendly
Looking for individualized guidance? Cloud Four also offers consulting.