Long story short, it turned out that I wasn't going to be doing much designing for them after all. I however still think that brushing up on my web design skills would be useful, and I made my own website thereafter. Recently I got a domain name, hosting, and put of a pretty basic website here. (I know... it's very simple, especially for marketing web design)
So back to the Treehouse. I'd like to share my experience on Treehouse, and how what I've been learning will soon put my website to shame when I recreate it soon. Starting out, I had some basic Java, HTML, and CSS knowledge. This however was hardly enough to get far with their quizzes before I had to start watching the video tutorials to pass all of them. The video's seem to be hit or miss depending on the topic, and teacher. HTML and CSS video's all have the same teacher (some guy named nick). Who not only knows his stuff, but seems to be very good at the step by step process. I also started a lesson in Ruby on Rails, and found the tutorials far less intuitive, and out of date. Many of the video's have 10-20 comments below correcting errors and emissions in the video that were crucial to completing the lessons.
Treehouse does have some nice motivators to keep with it though. For example, the point system. Whenever you complete a lesson or take a quiz, or write in the fourm, you get points, and badges showing off how much time you put into it. Unfortunately these points don't count for squat insofar as you don't get any bonus content, or a transcript that you can show to employers, or swag when you get a lot of points, but getting them still gives me a sense of accomplishment.
In my next blog, I'll get into more specifics as to what changes I'm making to my website, and why these changes will make my site more appealing, and cleaner to use and navigate.
Sincerely,
Web Designer in training
Durango Website Design
So back to the Treehouse. I'd like to share my experience on Treehouse, and how what I've been learning will soon put my website to shame when I recreate it soon. Starting out, I had some basic Java, HTML, and CSS knowledge. This however was hardly enough to get far with their quizzes before I had to start watching the video tutorials to pass all of them. The video's seem to be hit or miss depending on the topic, and teacher. HTML and CSS video's all have the same teacher (some guy named nick). Who not only knows his stuff, but seems to be very good at the step by step process. I also started a lesson in Ruby on Rails, and found the tutorials far less intuitive, and out of date. Many of the video's have 10-20 comments below correcting errors and emissions in the video that were crucial to completing the lessons.
Treehouse does have some nice motivators to keep with it though. For example, the point system. Whenever you complete a lesson or take a quiz, or write in the fourm, you get points, and badges showing off how much time you put into it. Unfortunately these points don't count for squat insofar as you don't get any bonus content, or a transcript that you can show to employers, or swag when you get a lot of points, but getting them still gives me a sense of accomplishment.
In my next blog, I'll get into more specifics as to what changes I'm making to my website, and why these changes will make my site more appealing, and cleaner to use and navigate.
Sincerely,
Web Designer in training
Durango Website Design
