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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 ceol »

ryancarson wrote: post #31
robinduckett wrote: post #19

Feedback number deux: 1. From first glance this is an education website 2. No free tier, so you can't actually take any of the quizes without paying at least $25. 3. This is when I closed the tab

We think it's a good idea to charge for products (generally). I know it's not hip, but revenue and profitability allow us to ... 1) Provide very high quality education because we can afford to hire full-time Teachers, instead of crowd-sourcing the curriculum 2) Be profitable, so we can stay in business and continue to grow the service, which benefits our Members

Would you guys be willing to do something like a Bronze plan, where maybe you get access to the videos but no offline viewing? I'd love to pay something like $10-$15/mo for the most basic access.

Also, I'd like to toss in my obligatory "Awesome job with the design!" comment.

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

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Post by fotoblur »

Site looks amazing...however the fonts on Windows are hard to read and are jagged, especially in the testimonials section. I'm sure they look great on my MacBook but don't forget the Windows crowd when designing (Test case: Vista with Chrome and FF).

Good luck with the venture. I am a firm believer that online education in software development is going to be big in the coming years. Get recruiters to start using your service to weed out recruits ;)!

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

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Post by michaelschade »

ryancarson wrote: post #28
khill wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We added the About page on the top nav (last second) but it broke the responsive layout. It's now at the bottom and we'll put it back up top when we can.

Aha, thanks for pointing this out–I was curious if there was such a thing too.

On the about page (http://teamtreehouse.com/about), why are the boxes so big for each person? I see picture, name, title, Twitter handle, and then a fair amount of whitespace that makes me think there'd be a short bio for each person.

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

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Post by Tichy »

tomwalsham wrote: post #36

I'm interested in why you'd go with 'Treehouse' as the name considering the trademark space for educational content is already pretty cluttered for that term. Was this considered and dismissed?

As a non-native speaker I wonder what is the relationship between "treehouse" and learning? Except that treehouses are typically being built by kids and kids usually go to school?

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

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Post by Woost »

ryancarson wrote: post #26
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…

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

One minor issue: On windows XP/FF 3.6 the font is a little hard to read: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/543/201111041105.png/

I'm not sure exactly what firefox is trying to do (since both IE 8 and chrome are better), but I thought I'd let you guys know.

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

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Post by ryancarson »

Woost wrote: post #67
ryancarson wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

One minor issue: On windows XP/FF 3.6 the font is a little hard to read: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/543/201111041105.png/ I'm not sure exactly what firefox is trying to do (since both IE 8 and chrome are better), but I thought I'd let you guys know.

Thanks for the heads up. We're aware of it now and are working on a fix. Cheers.

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

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Post by skadamat »

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…

Agree with everything above!

I was worried I was going to have to pay for the iOS videos but boy was I wrong - and I'm glad, I'm just a college student >I really like the iOS intro video, y'all really put some time into making them, with the white backdrops and all.

And yeah the website has a really simple, amazing UX!

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