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Learning Web Design with Projects

Monday, August 8th, 2011

learn web design by doing

What is the best way to learn web design?

Well, I’ve learned over the years that the best way to learn anything is to just do it. I would say that the theory-to-practical mix, should be say 20% theory and 80% practical.

Yep, academic shills (regardless of profession) are not only useless, they’re down right dangerous!! To avoid becoming an evil useless shill, you need to step it up and actually build websites, write code, make mistakes and learn from it.

We build our courses with that in mind.

If you check out our growing collection of web design training courses, you will notice a few things:

  1. They are very tasks oriented – you learn by doing.
  2. They are very practical – you learn stuff that people actually use in the field!
  3. The teachers are ALL experienced web designers and programmers – no academic shills here!!

Conclusion:

Yep, I’m shilling for our courses, but why not?

:)

Besides, people like our stuff, check out just a small sampling of the emails we get:

www.killertestimonials.com/

Thanks.

Stefan Mischook

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New Video: Build A Content Management System with PHP

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

I am happy to announce yet another screencast tutorial for all you nerds out there: Build A Content Management System.

OK, not the most exciting title, but still an exciting course for those PHP nerds who want to go from PHP basics and get into building a full-fledged PHP application from scratch.

Learn how to build a content management system that provides a website all the tools needed to allow basic web users to manage the website content with ease. Over 6.5 hours of tutorials over 41 videos!

Here are some details about the video tutorial:

This course is aimed at intermediate level web developers, demonstrating how to build a basic PHP based content management system that uses object oriented programming techniques and implements the MVC pattern.

Along the way, I cover a wide range of technologies, including HTML and CSS, a bit of javascript/jQuery/AJAX and PHP/MySQLi. I also show how to integrate Colorbox (a jquery plugin) and TinyMCE (for the WYSIWYG functionality.)

Read more: Building a PHP based CMS

Check out the CMS course sample videos

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

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Web Designer Video Library Updated.

Sunday, May 1st, 2011

Hi,

I just wanted to mention a couple of changes in the video library:

- we have a new course: New PHP course: Build a Content Management System.
- we now simplified to the subscriber types to just two: Standard (3 month) and Premium (1 year)

Check out the details:

video library subscription types

That’s all for now.

Stefan Mischook
killersites.com

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Video Blog: The Best Way to Learn Web Design

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Hi,

The basic point of this video blog is:

1. Don’t get caught up in nerd-theory rabbit holes, that take up all your time on things that will have little to no impact on your day-to-day web programming or designing work.

2. Learn your nerd craft by creating things that people commonly want … things like shopping carts, customizing a blog etc …

Just in case you don’t know, a video blog is just a video of my yapping about stuff. A little different than one of my video tutorials where I am showing you how to do things.

… Don’t worry though, you will never see video of me talking about what my dog did today.

;)

Stef

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New Wordpress 3.x Videos out and on the Way.

Saturday, December 4th, 2010

We have the following Wordpress videos coming out, which are based on the current version – Wordpress 3.0.2:

- Custom Taxonomies in Wordpress
- Working With Custom Post Types in Wordpress

… Both can be found on the Killersites video tutorial subscription service.

Wordpress and Dreamweaver CS5

We should have a the first free sample videos out this coming week from a new series that teaches people how to work with Wordpress via Dreamweaver CS5.

… This latest version of Dreamweaver, has a bunch of tools specifically for use with Wordpress. Our video course will not only teach you Dreamweaver’s Wordpress tools, you will also learn a lot about Wordpress theme creation along the way.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

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Killersites videos around the world!

Sunday, November 14th, 2010

I just wanted to announce that several video tutorials will now be included (on a DVD) in the French edition of Web Design Magazine … published out of France.

:)

Our videos now appear in a total of 4 different print magazines monthly. You can find our growing collection of videos (the complete video courses) and premium podcasts here:

www.killervideostore.com/

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook

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PCI Compliance Security Scam – Podcast

Monday, November 1st, 2010


The following article and podcast is based on my personal experience and opinion, as web application developer and web entrepreneur.

Let’s start with the basics, what is PCI compliance?

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of requirements designed to ensure that ALL companies that process, store or transmit credit card information maintain a secure environment. Essentially any merchant that has a Merchant ID (MID).

… So if you are processing credit cards and you take credit card information on your site, you are then subject to the edicts of PCI compliance.

Now on the surface this may sound like a good idea, but in practice, I am seeing something akin to the Y2K scam of the year 2000, where many companies paid big money ($$) to protect against the non-existent threat of Y2K. Again, my opinion as a programmatic nerd.

:)

… Ahh Y2K, many of fraudulent fortunes were made in those days!

PCI Security Server Scan/Scam

So being a proud holder of a merchant ID (so I can process credit cards directly) I fell under the oppressive thumb of the PCI compliance industry. Besides answering yes to a whole slew of questions that had ZERO relevance to my company because of how we do things, I had to subject my server to the PCI compliance scan.

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Free Video Tutorials

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Hi,

I’ve been slow to update my personal blog lately, because of all the work we’ve been doing on killersites. But, that hasn’t stopped us from releasing a bunch of new videos!

You can find our latest free video video tutorials on Dreamweaver CS5, basic web design, Photoshop, PHP and much more in the killersites web design magazine.

Thanks for stopping by the site.

Stefan Mischook

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Learning Web Design using Free Software Tools.

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

question about web design

This is a question I often get from people:

I would like to know if your tutorials are specifically designed to be compatible with only adobe software suites or are they also compatible with other free software alternatives for example gimp.

My Answer:

All of our videos are 100% compatible with the free alternatives out there because these programs all work in the same way.

… It’s like learning to drive a car, once you know how to drive a Ford, you can also drive a BMW.

So we teach with the industry mainstays like Dreamweaver and Photoshop (where you can practice with the free 30 day trials) … but the principles are the same on the Gimp (in the case of Photoshop) or with any other web design software, in the case of Dreamweaver.

Our main course for teaching web design though, does not use anything more than notepad (on PC) or TextEdit on Mac for many of the modules in the package. Off the top of my head, the following modules are some that use a simple text editor to teach:

- Beginners Web Design – HTML and CSS.
- Beginners PHP
- Beginners Javascript
- CSS Layouts and Lists

BTW, if you really want to learn web design, this is the package for you:

http://www.killervideostore.com/video-courses/complete-web-designer.php

I hope that helps,

Stefan

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Killersites Affiliate Program Launched!

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

Hi,

I am happy to announce that we are finally launching our brand spanking new affiliate program that allows you to start selling our growing collection of video tutorials.

Some details:

  • Earn 20% on sales.
  • Take advantage of world wide promotion: our videos appear in web related print magazines every month … published around the world.
  • 6 months cookie tracking to ensure you get the credit.
  • Payments sent monthly for earnings at $100 and over.
  • Super easy to use system that will get you up and running in minutes.
  • Real time tracking of sales and Clickthroughs.

I will be releasing more details and a few videos over the next few days. In the meantime, you are welcome to join up now:

http://affiliate.killervideostore.com/

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook
killersites.com Inc.

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