Updated on August 6, 2015 in Community
From Customer Service to Back-End Web Development, Nicole Found Success with Treehouse
Nicole worked in customer service, but in her free time enjoyed personal nerddom, playing around with consumer technology and building things. Inspired by these interests, Nicole decided to register for an on-campus Computer Science course but quickly found the course…
July 17, 2015 in Community
Dawid Quit His Full-Time Job and Teamed Up With Two Friends to Start a Successful Software Lab
After graduating from university, Dawid took a full-time job as a junior Java developer at one of the world’s largest rail equipment manufacturers. However, he soon realized that the position wasn’t a great fit for him. Instead, Dawid was inspired…
June 26, 2015 in Treehouse News
Want to Teach for Treehouse?
Our teachers are amazing. They write their own course content and code challenges. They deliver their lessons on camera with personality. It’s not the easiest job to be found in tech. It requires someone who thrives in an environment of…
June 25, 2015 in Learn
How to Create a Stunning Site Hero Image in 5 Minutes or Less
Hero images are everywhere these days. You’ve probably seen them front and center in websites for apps, magazines, stores and pretty much every other product category. And with good reason: these large background images are often successful at capturing a…
Updated on June 25, 2015 in Community
In Two Months of Full-Time Learning Peter Gained The Skills He Needed to Become a Junior Web Developer
After two years of pursuing a degree in economics, Peter decided to make a big shift and take a basic web design course. Finding the pace of the class too slow, Peter turned to Treehouse to learn in his free…
Updated on June 18, 2015 in Learn
The Treehouse Show | Episode 145: Justice, Carousels, Centering in CSS
It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 145 of The Treehouse Show, Nick (@nickrp) and Jason (@jseifer) talk about Justice, Carousels, and Centering in CSS. For a free month’s trial, Join Jason and Nick at…
Updated on September 11, 2023 in Learn
Learn JavaScript and Up Your Photoshop Game
You’re a Photoshop master. You have your preferences perfected, the menus memorized. You’re a Wacom wielding wizard. Or are you? If you use Photoshop and you don’t code, you’re wasting time and effort with every project you touch. That’s time…
Updated on July 14, 2015 in Learn
Getting Started with Ionic
What is Ionic? Ionic is a set of performance-focused, beautifully designed HTML, CSS and JavaScript components optimized for building mobile applications. Ionic is composed of Cordova, the open sourced part of the PhoneGap platform, Sass and AngularJS. It allows you…
Updated on July 14, 2015 in Learn
Why Ionic is Reigniting the Native vs HTML5 Debate
A Little Bit of History Back in 2010 the iPad was released and Josh Timonen and I wanted to build apps for it. Neither of us knew Objective-C and without spending too much time learning a new language we…
Updated on June 11, 2019 in Learn
Intro to Neat — A Semantic Sass Grid
Mobile devices came to conquer the planet, and they won. Well . . . mobile devices at least seem to dominate the way in which we access the Web. As a result of the mobile revolution, we no longer have…
Updated on May 21, 2015 in Community
Joe Learned to Code & Transitioned into a Career He’s Passionate About
Despite being an economics graduate with a career as a loan analyst, Joe decided it was time for a career change. After a gratifying experience dabbling in basic UX and product design side projects, combined with a lifelong interest in…
Updated on February 22, 2022 in Learn
How to Create a Sticky Navigation
Many websites use a “sticky” feature in their main navigation menu. The menu scrolls with the page, then sticks to the top once it reaches the top of the viewport. There are lots of jQuery plugins we can use to…