The Girl's Guide to Web Design

Then you, my friend, are in the right place! Press “play” on the video below to hear me tell you exactly why:

Hi! I’m Amanda from Better Than Chocolate Web Design. And I want to fill you in on a unique learning experience that I think you’re going to love.

It’s called The Girl’s Guide to Web Design, and it’s about empowering you to create the uniquely gorgeous blogs and sites you’ve always wished you had the chops to make.

If you are ANY of the following:

• Someone who’s been dying to get that pet project up on the web (whether it’s a blog or a site) for AGES
• A lady in business who needs a new site to represent her genius (or her company’s genius) online
• An entrepreneur who has a constant stream of brilliant biz ideas and who is sick of having to save up for a web designer to get them up on the web
• A graphic designer who wants to be able to take her gorgeous graphics and turn them into honest-to-goodness websites
• A Virtual Assistant who wants to rock her clients’ worlds by saying “why, yes…I most certainly CAN code HTML and CSS!”

…you’ll want to keep reading.

The Girl’s Guide to Web Design (GG2WD for short) is a one-of-a-kind online course. A course of the impossibly fun variety!

The whole thing is geared towards creative types who have an eye for design and a secret wish to know how to make gorgeous sites and blogs, but who are missing the graphic, web, or coding skills to make it happen. Ladies who are frustrated with having a ton of beautiful ideas, but no way to get them onto a computer screen.

Sound like anyone you know? I thought it might!

…So here’s the scoop.

In this at-your-own-speed online video training course, I’ll teach you (and a bunch of other bold souls) to design and code your very own WordPress theme (based on the Thesis framework) that looks exactly how you want it to look, down to the last detail (custom graphics and all). It will be magical and it will be empowering. It will make you want to turn down fun Friday night plans because you’d rather stay home and work on your brilliant site or blog. In fact, it will downright blast you into a new way of being in the world.

How can I make such bold claims? Because I’ve seen it happen to the hundreds of women who have graduated from The Girl’s Guide to Web Design.

So please…don’t think for one second that web design is one of those “can’t be taught” skills. It can be taught, and it IS being taught – by me, to an army of awesome Girl’s Guide to Web Design students, learning at their own pace and according to their own schedules, every day!

Nope – I simply won’t allow you to miss your chance to bring your biggest, boldest ideas into being, to make more money with your fancy new coding skills, or even to start an amazingly fun and flexible new career as a web designer just because no one’s ever shown you the how-tos (they’re not actually that hard – trust me).

And if you won’t allow that to happen, either, then YOU are exactly the type of go-getter who’s perfect for this course.

To really get your motor running, here’s a top-level view of what we cover in The Girl’s Guide to Web Design:

• Getting set up with a domain and the right kind of web host
• Laying the groundwork for your site (the technical stuff you need to know)
• Dreaming up your look and feel (using my signature daydream-inspired process)
• Graphic-design for non-graphic designers (no Photoshop required!)
• Fun with HTML (when you learn it my way, it’s much simpler than you think)
• Demystifying CSS (how to fine-tune everything about the look of your site, from colors to fonts to spacing and positioning)
• The exact techniques to use to take your site from “blah” to awe-inspiring (otherwise known as “how to think like a designer”)
• Top-notch WordPress plugins to make your life easier (from security to marketing)
• Tricks and tweaks for an SEO-friendly, bulletproof site (don’t leave home without it!)
• Watch me create a site from start to finish (an insider peek at how I do what I do)

In a nutshell, this course will teach you all the webby skills you could possibly need – in a totally non-intimidating way.

If you’ve never looked at a line of code in your life, you’re in the right place. As long as you’re willing to learn and put in some practice time, we’ll get along just fine.

Ok…I’m intrigued. Let’s hear some specifics.

The course consists of 8 chapters (9 if you count the bonus foundation chapter at the beginning), locked away inside a private website (secret clubhouse style). Each one will take you through a different step in the site creation process using a mix of videos, exercises, and practice time.

We’ll be diving deep into this stuff, exploring tons of examples to see what makes design elements “tick” in terms of code. I’ll explain things in normal person language and will show you ALL my designer and coder tricks – no holds barred. My goal is to make the course a no-overwhelm zone, so that you can kick back and enjoy an amazing sense of community with your cool-chick virtual classmates while you learn, learn, learn.

In short, it’s going to be awesome, and you don’t want to miss this. For all the juicy details, click the big white box below!

See you (and your future blogs and websites) on the flip side!

~ Amanda

 
 
Got a kick out of this? Please “like” it, tweet it, or leave a comment below!