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Posted by George S-T
George S-T
6,624 Points

Web Design and Development

There are several tracks to do with web design/development on Treehouse. Which one is the one to choose to be able to make responsive high-quality interactive websites? (like this Treehouse one, obviously less advanced though).

There is Web Design, Web Development, WordPress.

4 Answers

Rebecca Rand
Rebecca Rand
2,581 Points
Rebecca Rand
Rebecca Rand
2,581 Points

I am currently doing the Web Design track and it go through basic website HTML, CSS, and how to build responsive websites. I would imagine the Web Dev and WordPress tracks should be taken after the Web Design track.

Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points

Depends what you want to and your ability at the moment? I didnt know any HTML/CSS back in the summer but now feel confident building a responsive website like you describe (although lacking back end function like required for this treehouse site). I would advise completing as much HTML/CSS until you feel confident then complete the Wordpress course to give you a basic grounding in PHP and wordpress, add in some jQuery as well to make your websites a bit more adventurous :)

Christopher Hall
Christopher Hall
9,052 Points
Christopher Hall
Christopher Hall
9,052 Points

If you feel like you're more of an artistic type ("how it looks"), then I would recommend the "Web Design" track to start. Alternately, if you feel like you're more technical and focused on functionality ("how it works"), then the "Front End Web Development" track would probably be better. Some of the sections in those two tracks overlap anyway.

Learning Wordpress can be useful if you wish to create blogs and content management systems, but remember that it's coded in PHP, so you will want to learn more about PHP when learning about Wordpress.

qdzfplofsk
qdzfplofsk
22,025 Points
qdzfplofsk
qdzfplofsk
22,025 Points

I would do WD followed by FED, which mostly overlaps with WD.