I’m learning web design. Who’s with me?!?

Hello, all!

Why, yes, I do have a good reason for not having been around here all that much lately. I have a new obsession. It’s creative, it’s addictive … some might even call it better than chocolate.

It’s the Girl’s Guide to Web Design.

This is an incredibly meaty program created by Amanda Aitken Verrall, a talented web designer and owner of Better Than Chocolate Web Design. It contains 8 chapters of material with over 35 hours of video. You can start whenever you want and learn at your own pace – once you’re in, you have access to the course materials for life.

Amanda teaches you how to build WordPress sites, and she makes it fun. I’m only three chapters in, and I cannot tell you how much of a blast I’m having learning this stuff!

But the most important part of what I want to tell you is that the Girl’s Guide to Web Design is getting ready to be taken off the market. As of May 10 at 11:59 p.m., enrollment is closed. So if you’re at all interested in website design, I’d highly encourage you to get in now while you can. Because while the class is closed, Amanda is going to revamp it, and when it re-opens, the price will be significantly higher. Those who register now will have lifetime access to the course materials (and Facebook support group) throughout the transition period and for life, as well as all the new course materials (for life). It’s a seriously great deal.

So if you’re at all interested, please click here and register now. You won’t regret it!

 

 

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