Open Enrollment for FREE Classes at the Web Academy

My good friend Eric Hamilton, from Yahoo!, has just opened up his FREE Web Acadamy.

Beginner courses will cover HTML/CSS/Graphics Design/Web Administration.

Intermediate courses will cover Flash/PHP/MySQL/Analytics.

Advanced courses will cover Yahoo! API topics such as Search Monkey, Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Fire Eagle.

All courses are distance learning lead by a live instructor and the courses are FREE.

I invite you to sign up for these free course by going here:

http://www.thewebacademy.org

Well done Eric!

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