Private Tuition
Whangārei, New Zealand
Private Tuition
Private Tuition
At Your Place or Ours in Whangārei
Upskill or explore computer and art techniques with short one-to-one tuition anywhere within Whangārei. Get your questions answered while using your own devices. Intensive short training of one to two hour sessions. Learn all you need to know in one session, or have some practice time and a refresher session the following week. Wide range of topics available, pick what you need to know from our list below or email us your questions.
Tuition topics include: Website design, SEO, DIY Marketing, Blogs, Adobe Photoshop, Social Media, eBooks, Mailchimp, iPads & tablets, Computer basics, designs for Print, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Illustrator, Print Processes, Survey Monkey, Amazon Kindle, Art techniques, Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry DNA.
To book some tuition complete our email form or email joyfulpeardesign@yahoo.co.nz
Website Design
Create a new website or update your current website
We specialise in helping folks with DIY Websites - that work for you and your audience. Create a new DIY website, learn the terminology and explore the options and essentials. Or adjust the SEO on your current website, tweak the design, and update images and text. Stretch your marketing dollars by managing your website yourself.
We also run Website Design Workshops at CEW twice a year.
“Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at.” ― Leo Burnett
Some sample Websites by our clients:
Start a Blog
Set-up Your Own Blog
We help folks set-up a Blog - a form of DIY Website. Create a new Blog template, learn the terminology, and explore the options and essentials. Use your Blog for fun or as part of your business or website marketing.
Blogging is easy - communicate with the world, and inspire others by sharing your story, hobby, business, or ideas. Enjoy engaging with online fans and readers, and practice your writing and communication skills.
Blogging is easy - communicate with the world, and inspire others by sharing your story, hobby, business, or ideas. Enjoy engaging with online fans and readers, and practice your writing and communication skills.
We also run Blogging Workshops at CEW twice a year.
“Blogging can generate a great deal of traffic to your online business.” ― Fabrizio Moreira
Some sample Blogs:
|
|
|
DIY Marketing
DIY Marketing Processes and Tips
Take control and save money by making your own publicity and marketing items for your hobby or business. Make images and write your own text for your website, social media, and print items. Create promotional booklets, email newsletters, online forms and surveys, eBooks, a Blog, Print materials, infographics, posters, and much more...
We also run DIY Marketing Workshops at CEW twice a year.
“You don't need a corporation or a marketing company to brand you now: you can do it yourself.” ― Ray Allen
Photoshop
Image editing and Adobe Photoshop
We specialise in helping folks explore Adobe Photoshop. Learn handy techniques to adjust your photos for websites, for print, for art, and for social media. Photoshop skills can be applied to many other FREE online photo editing programs. Resize and crop photos, save for the internet or print, adjust blurriness & colour, and add text over the top, save into a range of formats, create artistic collages, etc etc...
“A picture is a poem without words” ― Horace
We also run Photoshop Workshops at CEW twice a year.
DIY Design for Print
Create Your Own items for Print
We specialise in helping folks with DIY items for Print. Create your own Business Card, Flyers, labels, booklets, advertising, packaging, magazines, and more... Learn the processes and terminology, and explore the options and essentials. Stretch your marketing dollars by managing your own print materials. We use a variety of software including Adobe Indesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, and freely available online APPs.
We also run DIY Marketing Workshops at CEW twice a year.
eBooks
We make, design, and publish eBooks
We enjoy helping folks make and publish eBooks. Create an eBook to sell online, giveaway on your website, or share with family and friends. Explore the wide variety of options available and the publishing essentials. Sell your eBook on Amazon or other places and have a copy saved in the National Library of New Zealand.
We also run eBook Workshops at CEW twice a year.
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison
Some of our sample eBooks on Amazon Kindle:
eBook on Amazon
|
eBook on Amazon
|
eBook on Amazon
|
Tuition Feedback
“Easy to ask questions of & nice simple/basic answers that make sense.” - Anna Scott-Dg
“Shelley easily explained things and took her time explaining in detail. Encouraging & helpful.” - Mags
“Very friendly & helpful. I learned that [Web design is] not impossible to understand” - Tricia
“Shelley is an awesome teacher.” - Joanne
“thanks to your teachings, I have managed to navigate my way around Amazon and have got The Ballad loaded for sale on Kindle. So many thanks for your lessons.” - Trisha
About Shelley
Tutor, Designer, Artist
Shelley has been passionate about art, design, and publishing since childhood. She's worked at a range of design businesses including busy Magazine houses in Auckland, Advertising studios, in-house marketing departments, and her small graphic design studio with her husband (for private tuition and design). In the late 90s she helped setup (and teach) the NZQA classes for the private tertiary school Media Design School in Auckland. Now Shelley teaches privately in Whangārei, designs, and teaches workshops at CEW. She particularly enjoys helping folks explore modern technology opportunities and discover their own inner creativity.
|
|
|
Contact us
for an appointment or to chat about your project
JOYFUL PEAR DESIGN
Onerahi, Whangārei, NZ
email: joyfulpeardesign@yahoo.co.nz
phone: 09-436-3539 or txt 027-202-8720
|
|
We support FairTrade. We believe in ethical business & organics.
We believe in being sustainable – being socially & environmentally responsible. We are against Animal Testing.
Copyright © 2016 Joyful Pear Design Whangārei New Zealand
We believe in being sustainable – being socially & environmentally responsible. We are against Animal Testing.
Copyright © 2016 Joyful Pear Design Whangārei New Zealand
