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Thank you for any personal references!
I agree that lynda.com is a good educational resource.
Seems to me that you need to think about what website development education will help you to stand out from all the other web designers/developers who are looking for work.
One of the ways I get work is to point out that many other designers/developers don't really understand online marketing, so that I often have to rebuild my client’s sites before I can market them, whereas I'm both a web designer, developer AND marketer. I think that sort of approach – being a generalist instead of a specialist, can be an excellent goal. You can then offer all the skills of a team for the price of one person.
This is what I'd recommend you study, in order to cover a broad range of skills – using a combination of free online resources (e.g. Google search), paid online classes (e.g. Lynda.com) and books (the books will also make handy reference sources later):
1. Web page coding using the industry standard Adobe Dreamweaver web page editor
2. CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) coding (again in Dreamweaver) for formatting and layout
3. Blog creation using the industry standard free WordPress product
4. CMS (Content Management System) creation, with WordPress and Joomla
5. Adobe Photoshop (or the cheaper Adobe Photoshop Elements) for image work
6. Online video production for YouTube, etc.
7. Online marketing and landing/sales page design/development/optimization
8. Google AdWords Pay-Per-Click and AdSense
9. Scientific marketing traffic analysis and A/B Split Testing (e.g. Free Google Web Optimizer)
10. You might also want to learn Flash for animation
Note that Adobe offers free 30 day (not crippled) trials of all their products. You might even make enough in 30 days to pay for them.
Some of my books are pretty old:
* CSS Cookbook (O'Reilly)
* Landing Page Optimization by Tim Ash (Sybex)
* Tested Advertising Methods, Fifth Edition by John Caples (Prentice Hall Business Classics)
Hope this helps…
_jim coe.
I want to re-qualify from a mechanical engineer to a web developer.. What would be the fastest, cheapest, and best way to do this?
Taking online web design courses will help you design all types of websites for business, personal, and community needs. Choose web design courses that best meet your individual needs. Online web design courses can easily be taken from home. A web page design course can be a stand alone course or part of a program to get a degree. Web design courses are very popular. Many web design schools offer a variety of online web design courses and classes.
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Hi All
I'm looking for free online courses that deal with aspects of self help and personal development. Things like building confidence, approaching women, talking to strangers, all those types of things.
Preferably the course should be interactive with actual exercises.
Hi there,
You can find some free courses here Http://www.stateofhypnosis.com/emailcour… on the subjects you want, which hopefully will help you.
If you are particularly interested in approaching women / talking to strangers there is a program by David De'Angelo on confidence who's name escapes me (I've just moved house and everything is still boxed).
Hope that helps you out.
All the best
Jason.
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