Just about every small business owner knows that they have to have a website. What many don’t know, is that they also have to have basic web design skills … yes, even learning the dreaded code behind the pages: HTML and CSS.

Why do you need to know HTML and CSS?

For a few reasons:

1. To be able to make small changes to your site, without having to call your web designer every two minutes!
2. To be able to judge (to a certain extent) how long it might take to make a change to your website.
3. To know what your options are regarding a website.

… Let’s tackle each of these:

MAKING SMALL CHANGES TO YOUR WEBSITE
Websites are in constant need of updates, no question. It could be some new text you want add, corrections, adding a new image or even a new page. Many of these jobs are actually pretty easy to do with even a simple understanding of HTML and CSS.

So rather than having to reach your web designer, waiting for he/she to get back to you, just learn some basic web design and you will save a lot of time, headaches and even some money.

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Everyone has their own style of learning, and because of this, we’ve provide a few different ways for you to learn web design and web programming:

1. Buy a video package that you can take home and own – for example:

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

These are video courses that you can either download or have a DVD shipped to you.

2. Subscribe to our big library of premium content:

www.killersites.com/video-library/

This is a subscription service that works a lot like Netflix, where you can access our entire collection and watch as many videos you want. We have a standard and a premium subscription where with the premium subscription, you have access to all the videos, sources files and we give you one year access.

3. And of course, the KillerSites University where you get the interactive video training experience:

killersitesuniversity.com/

You can either buy individual courses or subscribe to access all of the training courses. KillerSites University is an interactive learning system, where you are quizzed and code challenged, while you watch videos that teach web design and web programming.

Stefan Mischook
killersites.com

Hi,

I got a good question from someone wanting to learn web design:

… if I buy your videos on how to construct a website, do I not also have to purchase the software to actually make the website, such as DreamWeaver or some other software?

My answer:

Hi James,

To create web sites, you don’t have to buy the expensive commercial packages like Dreamweaver. There are many free alternatives that work great and in fact, we include one in this package:

Complete Web Designer

That said, we teach with the popular commercial products because they are popular. But once you learn to work with say Dreamweaver, any web design program you use will be easy because they are work in the same way.

.. Like driving a car, it doesn’t matter which car it is you are driving.

I hope that helps,

Stefan
killersites.com