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Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

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Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

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Post by pgroves »

khill wrote: post #16
rkalla wrote: post #9

Feedback: Have no idea what Treehouse is, clicked the site, took 300ms to look at the 3 giant buttons. Clicked "web design" (the site looks very nice BTW) ... and started learning about web design. Watched the first video, hit the only button "Let's Go" and found a collection of other videos to get me further down the path of web design, letting me skip directly to my problems areas instead of grinding through things…

I totally agree with your point. However, unlike you, I didn't click on anything because (a) my time is valuable and I can't waste it on a site which may not provide value to me and (b) I don't trust web sites which don't explicitly tell me what they do or have an obvious "About" link on the home page. Please add a sentence or two at the top of the page to tell me your target audience and why I should use the site.

I did click on "learn web design" and was taken to a video with no description. I turned it off after a few seconds of pleasantries (eg. "Don't worry if you're totally new to web design"). I really think you guys should consider putting a course outline up front so users can know the scope of what they're getting into in a few seconds of skimming text instead of having to watch the whole first video. I don't even know how long that first video was, it didn't have a 'play bar' at the bottom. There's a big difference between a 30 second intro and an hour long 'first lecture'.

Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

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Post by vlokshin »

xenophanes wrote: post #90

Consider adding a feature to view the videos at higher playback speeds. Even someone who is only comfortable at 1.1x (not hard) could save hours of their time if they like your site. (I watch TV at 2x generally, huge time saver.)

this is something I absolutely LOVED about Lynda

Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

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Post by vladsanchez »

ryancarson wrote: post #47
rubymaverick wrote: post #8

Congrats guys. Way to represent Orlando!

Thanks! You don't have to be in Silicon Valley :)

Ryan,

I've followed you for a while on Think Vitamin and some of the DocType guys (Nick and Jim) and I never imagined you were in Orlando too!

Makes me very proud!

Congrats.

-Vlad

Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

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Post by vladsanchez »

cstefanovici wrote: post #82
cstefanovici wrote: post #80

This is a repackaging of the thinkvitamin website from Carsonified. These are literally the same videos I already downloaded from ThinkVitamin. Same talking heads, same, same...

RYAN CARSON this is lame in that its an expensive version of http://www.codecademy.com Also you are using the same videos from ThinkVitamin which provide good introductory knowledge and that's it. Codeacademy makes you actually code and had badges long before you guys.

It's like saying CODEACADEMY is lame because its an expensive version of http://www.lynda.com or http://www.showmedo.com . Get a life dude!

Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

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Post by [deleted] »

buss wrote: post #99
ryancarson wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You just made my day. We worked hard on the on-boarding UX.

The UX is great, I agree, but I can't stand how you put emphasis on every other word in the web design intro video. It reminded me of an Ira Glass segment where he talked about his early radio career (See http://transom.org/?p=6978 and scroll down to "1. Learning Curve"). He also made this mistake, to the detriment of the story. Please fix this when you have time. Maybe consider hiring a professional actor to read th…

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Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

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Post by ya3r »

ryancarson wrote: post #112
ya3r wrote: post #107

The only problem I have with this is the video player: Videos don't look good when not in full screen mode. When you click the full screen button (bottom right corner), it doesn't go to full screen mode. It shows you another button on top right corner which you must click to go into full screen mode. In full screen mode, videos look good but, there are no controls beside the pause button. BTW, everything else seems r…

I think you're seeing a bug. Do you have time to send an email to help@teamtreehouse.com with a screenshot? Thanks so much.

I sent you screenshots.

Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

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Post by tryitnow »

ryancarson wrote: post #73
juliano_q wrote: post #59

Any chance of launching an Android Development course? Treehouse seems to be exactly what I was looking for, but the topic that I am really interested in at this moment is not there. Congrats for the product, the site is amazing and I enjoyed the free videos a lot.

It's in the pipeline. Thanks for the kind words :)

so glad to here this. I am curious how you decide which courses are worth pursuing and which aren't.

My guess is that it would be useful to review job sites and see which skills are in demand relative to some estimate of the supply of those skills.

I really hope this is the future of education - college is such a waste of time/money for learning practical skills.

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