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The web is constantly evolving, so the best web professionals never stop learning.
Resources
- Treehouse Forum - Get help with code challenges, projects, and more
- W3C - Standards group for web languages
- Treehouse Blog - The official blog for Treehouse
- CSS-Tricks - A blog about CSS
- Web Community Twitter List - List of important web industry leaders to follow on Twitter.
- GitHub - Share your code with Git.
- CodePen - Share small HTML, CSS, and JavaScript projects
- Dribbble - Share shots of your design work
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The web is a relatively unexplored medium.
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That's why the best web professionals are fueled
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by endless curiosity and a passion for learning.
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They also understand that they can't work alone,
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and need a network of resources to draw upon.
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We're going to look at a few places to learn new things
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about the web and see how to become more involved with the industry.
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If you miss a link, don't worry.
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All the links we discuss are
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included in the notes with this video.
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You're already using Treehouse to learn new things so, the first place
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to learn more might be the next course that you're interested in.
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In these lessons, we built what's called a static
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website with a simple HTML and CSS front end.
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Because there's no database and no back
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end programming code running on the server.
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If you want to make more advanced things like contact forms, social networks,
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e-commerce stores, and more you will want to learn how to make dynamic
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sites using back end programming languages like Ruby or PHP.
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Since you're taking this course it's very likely that you're on a treehouse track.
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After you finish that track you may want to
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continue on to Ruby on Rails development or, PHP
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development to learn about back end languages and databases.
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If you get stuck or have a question about a lesson, a project you're working on, or
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if you just have a general inquiry, the Treehouse Forum is a great place to look.
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There, you'll find a vibrant community
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of students, web professionals and Treehouse teachers and staff that
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can help you on your journey. Beyond Treehouse, there are
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many other resources around the web that you may find useful.
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Another place to learn is actually the World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C.
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The W3C is an organization comprised of companies and
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individuals that sets the standards for HTML, CSS and many other web technologies.
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If you need to reference extremely detailed and official information
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about an HTML element or a CSS property, just head over
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to your favorite search engine and type in w3c followed
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by the element or property that you'd like to know about.
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Lets try w3c paragraph, and here I have
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several links that can help me learn about paragraphs.
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And here on the W3C's site, I can
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learn about the P element, or the paragraph element.
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Most of these documents can be highly technical in
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nature, so it can be a bit intimidating at first.
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That's exactly why we've broken down a lot of these lessons on treehouse.
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I'd actually like to take a step back here and point out
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the way that i just used to search engine to look something up.
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You may find yourself forgetting some of the information you learned.
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And, that's perfectly normal, because it takes a lot
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of practice to keep it all in your head.
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Even the most experienced web professionals will use a search engine
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just like I did, to look up elements and properties
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or just look for solutions to problems they might be having.
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As you become more familiar with webdesign and development, you may
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also want to keep up with the latest through webdesign blogs.
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The treehouse blog available at blog.teamtreehouse.com is one such place.
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Where you can find lots of articles
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about webdesign, development, business and other topics that we teach.
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Another one of my favorite blogs is CSS Tricks, run by Chris Coyier.
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As the title implies, this blog focuses on CSS
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specifically, and shows you lots of nifty techniques and tips.
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There are lots of blogs like these ones, so try searching for
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topics you're interested in and see what blogs come up.
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Another great resource is Twitter.
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If you're not already on Twitter, you may want to get started there.
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Twitter is a social networking site where you
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can share short 140-character updates with your followers.
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You can also follow other people that are interesting to you.
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The web community has a large presence
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on twitter and there are many important figures
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that have made great contributions to the industry.
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In fact, I have made a list called Web Community, which
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you can find a link to and the notes for this video.
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By following some of these people you can gain insight into the latest web trends,
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how web designers and developers think and
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generally just keep a pulse on the community.
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Twitter is a good
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place to build a following and post links to your
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latest designs, websites, and tips that you've learned along the way.
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It's a great way to get involved with a community.
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There are other places where you can post your work as
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well which will help give you more visibility, credibility and experience.
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These are all helpful things if you're looking for a job or new clients.
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You can share your
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code on sites like GitHub.
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Or Codepen.
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You can also share your design work on sites like Dribble.
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If you have any interesting links or screenshots that you've
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posted elsewhere, be sure to share them in the treehouse forum.
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That way you can get advice or
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feedback from fellow students and tree house teachers.
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Even the smartest people on the web community still have an
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endless supply of new things that they should learn a bout.
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So don't ever feel discourage if you come across something you didn't know about.
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As you've probably figured out by now, the more you learn,
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the more you'll realize how much you still have to learn.
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The best way to live in this industry is to
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be nice to people, share your knowledge, and never stop learning.
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