Matthew Pizzi

Matthew is the Training Director at Train Simple. He has spent thousands of hours in the classroom teaching
Fortune 500 companies web development software. As the lead co-author of four books on Macromedia topics,
Matt realized he enjoyed training and developing more than writting. He decided not to update his portion of the
Dreamweaver and Flash Unleashed series by Sams Publishing, and opted to spend more time in the classroom.

Courses for Train Simple

Introduction to Flash 8

Introduction to Flash 8 is a course that provides designers and developers new to the Flash environment the knowledge
and practice they need to create rich Flash content. Students will produce an engaging interface using text, graphics,
animations, video, and sound. Simple user interactions are added using built in ActionScript behaviors and Script Assist.
In addition to teaching essentials, the course focuses on teaching best practices for creating Flash content. This course
contains approx. 8 hours of Flash tutorials.

Introduction to Dreamweaver 8

Introduction to Dreamweaver 8 is a course that provides provides web designers with the knowledge and practice
they need to build and manage professional websites using Dreamweaver 8. This course contains approx. 8 hours
of Dreamweaver tutorials.

Introduction to Captivate

Introduction to Captivate provides users with the knowledge and practice they need to develop and build software
demonstrations and interactive simulations with Captivate. In addition to learning key concepts, users also learn best
practices for creating and publishing Captivate projects. This course contains approx. 5 hours of Captivate tutorials.

Advanced Dreamweaver 8

Advanced Dreamweaver 8 with Matthew Pizzi provides students with the knowledge and practice they need to build and
manage dynamic websites using Dreamweaver and ColdFusion. In this course, you’ll learn how to connect to a database,
search and display results, and build a page to update the database. If you’ve always dreamed of building a more advanced,
data-powered site, but didn't know where to start, then this course is for you. This course contains approx. 6 hours of
advanced Dreamweaver tutorials.

ActionScript 2.0 for Flash 8

ActionScript 2.0 for Flash 8 provides experienced Flash designers with the knowledge and practice they need to create
dynamically generated event-driven animation and interactive elements with Flash. The course teaches fundamental
programming techniques in bite-size, easy to understand, movie tutorials. It begins by introducing core concepts including
instance names, variables, functions, properties, and methods; then proceeds through conditions, loops, event handling,
and animating with ActionScript. This course contains approx. 8 hours of ActionScript tutorials.