Sidebar Network

We provide training, workshops and consulting that help your team succeed.

The Sidebar Creative team love to share what we know. That’s why we offer specialized on-site training, consulting and full-day workshops, where our experts give you and your team the skills and tools necessary to do your job better and faster using modern and practical techniques.

  • Dan Rubin User Experience Design

    An experienced visual designer with over 10 years in the industry, Dan’s ability to see things from the user’s point of view is invaluable.

    Read more on Dan's blog »

  • Steve Smith Design & Development

    A designer, developer, and university educator. Steve can put his knowledge of the web to use in your project — or teach it to your people.

    Read more on Steve's blog »

  • Jonathan Snook Scripting & Development

    Working in all aspects of development — from client- and server-side to IA and design — Jonathan’s experience is an asset to any project.

    Read more on Jonathan's blog »

  • Bryan Veloso User Interface Design

    A designer with a passion for beautiful things. Bryan’s ability to find the correct balance in any design situation is second to none.

    Read more on Bryan's blog »

Sidebar Training & Consulting

On-site, personal training and consulting from the experts.

Now your in-house team can benefit from our years of experience by learning our approach hands-on. We’ll teach you step by step how to improve workflow, production, optimization, markup, scripting and more - we can even lend a hand on specific projects so your people can pick our brains as-needed, on-site or online.

Learn about these topics (and more):

  • XHTML/Markup
  • Photoshop Production
  • Cross-browser/platform
  • CSS/Stylesheets
  • Fireworks Production
  • User Experience
  • Optimization
  • File Management
  • Site Navigation
  • Workflow
  • SVN/Version control
  • AJAX

Sidebar Workshops

It’s like we bottled up our knowledge so you could drink it.

Full-day, hands-on courses focusing on practical learning, with a personal touch: We’re bringing the workshops to you, visiting cities that, until now, have been off the conference radar. Save the travel and hotel expenses for another time - no need to fly or book a room.

Go back to school for a day

Each day will feature 2 tracks, split into 2 sessions each, with a maximum of 50 people per-session, so you won’t have to fight for our attention. One track will be more design- and interaction-oriented, the other development-minded (with enough overlap to satisfy your curiosity). We’ll teach what we know, answer your questions, walk you through real-world examples, and teach you time-saving tricks that you can use right away to improve the quality of your work (and maybe your life, too).

You've sold me, now what?

We’ll announce more information soon (including pricing and dates for the first two cities), so for now, let us know where you’d like us to bring the tour bus — Sidebar Workshops start this fall.

Cities under consideration:

  • Ottawa, Canada
  • Washington, DC
  • Chattanooga, TN
  • Indianapolis, IN
  • Orlando, FL
  • Sacramento, CA
  • Cleveland, OH
  • Perth, Australia
  • Tokyo, Japan
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Experience counts. Yours and ours.

We care as much about your users as you do (maybe more), and we are passionate about making sure you get the best possible solution to whatever problems need solving.

From web applications to content management, from blogging to podcasting, from desktop to mobile, we've done it all (and we've even written a few books on the subjects.)

Use our handy contact form to get the discussion going—it's the first step towards turning our team into your team »