Yes, now for a little shameless self promotion …

If you want to learn how to build websites, become a web designer or even a web programmer, we have many options at killersites.com.

But, our most popular has to be our Complete Training packages, since they are inexpensive and have everything you need to build websites commercially.

Our two most popular packages:

The Complete Web Designer

The Complete Web Programmer

… and you can get either package for $99 … or both for $179.98!

Just so you know, you are getting 30hrs+ of training PER PACKAGE and the sources files are also included for each of the web projects that you build. What are you building?

- Shopping carts
- CMS
- JQuery website
- HTML5 CSS3 websites

… And a lot more!

What makes our course packages different … why learn from KillerSites.com?

1. Practical real-world training that will land you a job!
2. Easy to understand nerd-free training, from one of the most established tech trainers in the world – over 15yrs experience!
3. Support, support, support! You can actually talk to people who can help you if you run into problems!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Stefan Mischook
killerSites.com

Hi,

We’ve been working hard and we’ve just released a new training video system designed to help teachers teach web design and web programming.

I think our press release summarizes it well:

KillerSites is proud to announce the release of the Web Tutor.

Developed by experienced web educators, the Web Tutor is an interactive video training system that teaches HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript. The Web Tutor includes quizzing (multiple choice and coding challenges), classrooms, student scoring/tracking and verifiable certification.

There’s a lot more to it than what you see in the press release, for example, check out our
classroom features:

Track your classrooms activity and progress:
Follow each students activity and course progress

Access to all courses:
With a subscription to the KillerSites Web Tutor, we give you and your students access to all of our courses.

Interactive tutorials:
All of our courses include multiple choice questions or code challenges that help you learn the material by solving problems.

Project Files:
All of our courses also include the project files, allowing you to follow along with each lesson.

… But wait! There’s more!

You can learn more about it by watching the video overview:

http://tutor.killersites.com/how-web-tutor-works

Should you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook
killerSites.com

Hi,

Adobe has now announced that there will be no Adobe CS7 product release for Photoshop, Dreamweaver and the rest of their Creative Suite.

They are moving to a cloud based system where you have to be online to use their products and Adobe has control of the upgrades and updates.

… I wonder what might happen if Adobe releases a bug filled version and you can’t roll back to a working copy?

A New Way to Pay

Beyond that, Adobe has changed the way you pay to use their products, where now you ONLY have the option to pay by a subscription fee. For some people out there, that’s fine, while others (many others) seemed to not be too amused.

From what I am hearing, it seems that the cost of using Adobe products (for many) might as much as double under this new pricing scheme!

… Ouch!

Different Country, Different Price!

What’s getting people even more pissed-off, is that the price can be dramatically different depending on where in the world you live! This is amazing since everything is delivered via Internet … why the difference in price? A quote from the article:

It’s still cheaper to fly from here in Sydney to Los Angeles, buy [Adobe's Creative Suite Master 6 Collection] there, and come home. By doing that I’d save $601, and I’d get Virgin Australia frequent flyer points, too.

Read more

KillerSites Treats Everyone Equally

Unlike some companies we know …

… we here at KillerSites.com believe it’s only fair that everyone has the same cost when it comes to any of our training packages and products.

We also believe that some people might prefer to take home and own the video training packages, so even though we have subscription based ‘cloud’ training services (Video Library & KillerSites University), we also offer our courses for purchase via download or even mailed to you on a USB key!

… Being flexible we think is a virtue.

Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com

Hi,

I will start with the main point:

You can now get the Complete Web Designer for only $20 (instead of the normal price of $100) through our special deal.

Read below to learn about the details …

Probably my most popular training package is the Compete Web Designer, because it takes you from knowing nothing about web design, to having commercial web designer skills. Some nerd details:

The Complete Web Designer offers you over 29 hours of training that easily guides you from total beginner to becoming a productive web designer. You will learn:

• HTML
• CSS
• Dreamweaver CS6
• Photoshop for the Web
• HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery

… And more!

Every student of web design needs to get a hosting account at some point.

Being able to properly use a hosting account is part of the process of learning web design and besides, you will probably need a website at some point too. With that in mind, we’ve partnered with a popular hosting company where you can now buy the $100 Complete Web Designer package for only $20 when you get a 1 year hosting package … this will cost you $3.15/month, or the cost of one coffee per month!

It’s is by far the best deal we’ve offered or seen anywhere. If you were ever planning on learning web design, this is your chance to do it for practically nothing.

Stefan Mischook
killerSites.com

Hi,

I had a conversation recently on how to best teach web design and programming, and I thought the main points of the conversation might make a good blog post … so here we go!

Stef’ Web Design Teaching Strategy

There is a lot that goes into creating an effective web design or web programming training course, but I can reduce it to these three main principles:

1. Break things up into manageable chunks.
2. Avoid tech/nerd terms as much as possible.
3. Filter what you teach – don’t try to show everything at once.

My teaching style is based on my ten + years of teaching web design and programming but it is also based on my training in psychology and believe it or not, about 30 yrs of martial arts training – I use teaching principles and techniques I picked up from many styles of martial arts, from my many martial art teachers, and from a couple of broken noses!

… You learn a lot when you get your nose broke, it’s true!

The good thing though, is that I can guarantee that in my web design and web programming training courses, you will not get your nose broken. But you will still learn how to be a professional web designer and web programmer if you want to.

Stefan Mischook
killersites.com

Hi,

We just moved the KillerSites Video Library to a new spot … it has it’s own website finally, after several years.

Besides a new home, the library also has a brand new look and interface that should make the library much easier to use.

Finally, we also have five new courses:

• Beginners Web Design
• Beginners WordPress
• WordPress Theme from Scratch
• Beginners Dreamweaver CS6
• Beginners Photoshop CS6

Thanks for reading,

Stefan Mischook
killerSites.com

Hi,

We just released a brand new WordPress training course that teaches you from scratch, how to create a custom WordPress theme. Some details:

In this series,  the viewer is taken through the entire design and development process, starting with doing the design in Photoshop, then building an HTML/CSS template, and finally integrating that template into a fully functioning WordPress theme.

The author demonstrates a wide range of WordPress functionality, including WordPress search, menus, sidebars and widgets, and how to theme posts, pages, categories and archives. In addition, install and use a favorite WordPress plugin: the Advanced Custom Fields plugin.

This course is aimed at intermediate designers/programmers. To follow along, you are expected to have a basic understanding of Photoshop, HTML, CSS and PHP. The author demonstrates WordPress using a local install on a computer, meaning that web hosting isn’t required to follow along.

Video Highlights:

• Advanced custom fields
• Widget Sidebars
• WP Menus
• Specially designed home page
• Videos featured in Web Designer Magazine

Thanks for reading,

Stefan Mischook
killersites.com

I just wanted to announce my new Beginners WordPress video tutorial course. Here are some of the details:

This video tutorial course is designed to take beginners and teach them the basics needed to know to setup and create a website running on the worlds most popular blogging engine, WordPress!

It is assumed that the viewer understands HTML and a bit of CSS. A basic understanding of PHP is helpful, but not required.

While its best to follow along and write the code, the project files are still included in this video – for those lazy folks out there!

• Installing and configuring WordPress
• Custom Taxonomies in WordPress
• Working with Custom Post types
• Videos featured in Web Designer Magazine
• Running time: 4 hours 25 minutes

Thanks for reading,

Stefan Mischook
killersites.com

The trend is your friend if you are into web design or web programming … going forward, there will be a lot more jobs than web professionals.

This trend means two things for web designers and programmers:

1. There will be more new jobs created, than new web professionals with each passing year.
2. Those who are smart enough to become web designers and web programmers, will see their pay go up as demand goes up.

 Why is the demand increasing so much?

 

Simple really, everything is going to the Web. Every school, every small business, every large business … it is all about the Web.

We’ve actually seen huge changes like this in our recent past. For example, remember Blockbuster? DVD rental was huge in the 80′s and 90′s …. now it is pretty much done. Everyone is streaming movies and TV now.

There are many more technology trends taking shape now and a lot of it is Web centric and that means increasing demand for web designers and programmers.

Learning Web Design and Web Programming

Yes, now for a little shameless self promotion …

We have two video training packages that teach you everything you need to know to become either a web designer or a web programmer … and you can get either package for $99 … or both for $179.98:

The Complete Web Designer

The Complete Web Programmer

Just so you know, you are getting 30hrs+ of training PER PACKAGE and the sources files are also included for each of the web projects that you build. What are you building?

• Shopping carts
• CMS
• JQuery website
• HTML5 CSS3 websites

… And a lot more!

 What makes our course packages different … why learn from KillerSites.com?

1. Practical real-world training that will land you a job!
2. Easy to understand nerd-free training, from one of the most established tech trainers in the world – over 15yrs experience!
3. Support, support, support! You can actually talk to people who can help you if you run into problems!

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

Stefan Mischook
killerSites.com

I want to mention that we are busily working major upgrades to the killer video library, upgrades that will make it easier to find the videos you want to watch.

Click on the screen shots for full size images.

Screenshot #1 – The video player now supports iPad and iOS video playback.

Screenshot #2 – Each video category will now have their own page and the videos are sortable.

Screenshot #3 – Each video course will have its own page.

The updated Killer Video Library should be out within a week. We have two new courses due out soon as well … more on that later.

Thanks,

Stefan Mischook