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Design HTML Email Design Coding HTML Email Building Common Design Patterns

Posted by Perry Clark
Perry Clark
8,261 Points

Lack of explanations

I have followed a lot of content on Treehouse and have always enjoyed the courses. I find this course very frustrating, he just pastes code in with any explanations as to why he does these things, like placing a table in a table. The pasting also makes it very hard to follow, especially with lack of explanations.

I don't see how this can be pro membership content, it really lacks the information that's needed to understand why certain practices are being used.

9 Answers

Oliver Tyson
PLUS
Oliver Tyson
Courses Plus Student 85 Points
Oliver Tyson
Oliver Tyson
Courses Plus Student 85 Points

Yeah this is honestly very hard to follow. It's not clear where the content goes. It is simply pasted in and the narrator moves on. Very hard to follow. Perhaps they should use someone who has more expertise in teaching? There needs to be some visual cues/highlights added to guide the viewer. Very off putting due to the lack of explanation. I will try my best to complete this video but will most likely look elsewhere.

EDIT: Hopefully some of the people's above comments have been addressed. Seems we all have common issues.

Sean Barberie
Sean Barberie
2,250 Points
Sean Barberie
Sean Barberie
2,250 Points

+1 to this. It's very frustrating.

Asia Chan
Asia Chan
11,007 Points
Asia Chan
Asia Chan
11,007 Points

Might I suggest to add a Teacher's Notes with graphics such as the usual Treehouse content. I honestly had to draw out my own tables on paper to see the logic behind the nesting.

Caroline Sampaio
Caroline Sampaio
8,333 Points
Caroline Sampaio
Caroline Sampaio
8,333 Points

Agreed. I'm frustrated with this course. This sequences of copy and paste is annoying me. It's hard to follow.

Rebecca Jensen
Rebecca Jensen
11,580 Points
Rebecca Jensen
Rebecca Jensen
11,580 Points

I agree. Not only is it hard to follow, but it feels like a waste of my time. I'm actually very comfortable with HTML and CSS and I came here to learn about the key differences between HTML on the web vs in e-mail. ...and all I got was some copy/pasted code with no explanation or shared reasoning. My time may be better spent just reading the code at the end of the course.

I almost feel like this resource would be better as a simple file download. The video adds so little and is very off-putting.

tracydipietro
tracydipietro
3,585 Points
tracydipietro
tracydipietro
3,585 Points

Yeah I kind of want to give up and just figure out what the docs mean

Wendy Smits
Wendy Smits
1,661 Points
Wendy Smits
Wendy Smits
1,661 Points

Agreed. It goes way too fast and I miss the exercises so you know what you are doing. Email design cannot be explained in just one tiny course. Hope this will become a valid multi step course!

Al Cook
Al Cook
177 Points
Al Cook
Al Cook
177 Points

Yeah I wasn hoping for a lot more from this

Charlie Harcourt
Charlie Harcourt
8,046 Points
Charlie Harcourt
Charlie Harcourt
8,046 Points

Yes maybe it would be a good idea if they were to re do this and clearly explain what is going on. Maybe get Ned to do this...