I’m new here, but I was hoping someone had heard of the Rebyl.com web design courses? I am always looking for good tutorials and courses to help me in learning web design because I feel like I’m having trouble getting the hang of good design.
I’ve spent a lot of money that I didn’t really have to spend on different things with not a lot of success so far. Anyway I stumbled on the Rebyl courses or the ad for them anyway and they seem like they might be really good, however they are insanely expensive (at least for me - upwards of 1000 bucks) and I’m hoping someone has experience with them or has heard whether they are worth it?
The description of what they offer sounds pretty promising, but paying that kind of money…I just don’t know…you also don’t get any kind of preview of the content.
If not Rebyl, does anyone know of any good courses?
I haven’t heard of Rebyl, but that is a big outlay for unknown content. There are so many facets of web design, so what are you actually hoping to learn? There are some great books around that teach a lot and only cost around $40, so that’s what I’d recommend. SitePoint has also launched some fantastic web design courses over the past year—on CSS, JavaScript, HTML, PHP and more, and they only cost around $25. These courses have been so popular that they have moved to a new site called Learnable. I recommend you check them out.
Thanks Ralph! Omigoodness you weren’t kidding - I just briefly skimmed the courses offered here and I saw some really good ones that would be helpful to me. I don’t know why I didn’t think to check those out. And for a way cheaper price.
Rebyl sounds good but you’re right the content is really unknown - I’d be taking a big chance.
I’m hoping the course here on designing a stunning homepage helps me - it seems to have a lot of what I’m looking for AND it uses Fireworks which I am trying to get started with and like a lot so far. I’m just having trouble with getting into the flow of making a really good layout that looks appealing.
I think I know what I should do and then I go to find a background graphic or something like that and I’m like “now what do I do?” “will this image work?” “something is missing, etc.” Maybe I’m just not getting how things fit together or the right effects to use or something. It really helps me to see someone else walk through the steps of how they do it.
It also seems like a lot of designers are using Wordpress now and I’m trying to learn what kind of customization people do to the templates and things like that - what kind of graphics they add, etc. This seems like a good place to start though, so thank you so much!
I think there are too many free resources out there to learn developing for the web but that’s just me. Everything I have learned I learned online for free. You want to know about wordpress? Go hang around their community forums. Same for drupal and pretty much any other popular cms. There’s also sites like Webmonkey - The Web Developer's Resource | Wired.com that I used frequently when I was starting out. I practically lived on that website (back when it was hosted by lycos which was EONS ago). Buying a physical book on something is one thing (some people just like the feel of it in their hands) but I would never buy access to an online tutorial about anything. Too many free ones out there that are just as good. Even doing google searches about a particular topic is bound to bring up a lot of relevant information.
I agree that there’s a lot of good stuff out there. The advantage of a book or paid course it that the vendor basically has a contract with you that you will be taken through logical steps from point A to point B. Free stuff online tends to be a bit haphazard, and big chunks of information are often left out, as there’s no onus on the author to follow any kinds of rules or principles of teaching/presentation. That’s fine if you are persistent and patient, but I often love to get back to my CSS, JS, PHP &co books that have an order and logic to them not usually found online.
ralph.m, that’s good to know because that’s exactly what I keep hoping:)
Ryo-ohki, I understand exactly what you’re saying and I can appreciate not wanting to pay for things that you can get for free, but for me at least I think that I get overloaded easily and like having the info all organized for me.
If you can find a good paid tutorial the quality of instruction is lot better and they go a lot more in depth than many free ones although there are good free ones out there. I do use free resources also, but there’s so much to learn, I’ve got limited time to study, and I’m trying to learn it in all hurry so that I can start making money at something I enjoy so I get impatient.
Everyone’s different though. For now I’ve started working on the SitePoint course I mentioned in the earlier post and it’s really given me some insight.
I appreciate the other resources you all mentioned and I’ll be checking those out for sure. Thanks!
