Updated on May 21, 2015 in Community
Behind the Scenes of the New Treehouse Orlando Set
If you’ve been a Treehouse student since the very beginning, you might remember the look of our earliest videos. The original set was… well, we didn’t really have one. The actual first Treehouse set, built at our offices in Orlando, Florida in…
October 22, 2014 in Learn
Real-Time 3D on the Web
When you watch an animated Pixar movie, the 3D graphics are extremely detailed and realistic because they’re “pre-rendered”. Each frame may have taken many hours or days for the computer to render and then later you watch those rendered frames in…
Updated on November 16, 2022 in Learn
Cutting-Edge CSS Features You Can Use Today
The last wave of new CSS3 features introduced in-browser design features like border-radius, gradients, multiple backgrounds, and box-shadow. CSS continues to evolve and today’s native features are becoming closer to tools we’d normally use in our favorite graphics editor. In…
Updated on May 21, 2015 in Community
After Just 6 Months Learning Nick is a full-time Web Developer
23 year old Nick Bryan’s interest in the web came from a desire to learn how something we use everyday, and often take for granted, is both designed and implemented. When Nick then found himself, with a background and degree…
Updated on October 14, 2022 in Learn
Install Node.js and NPM on a Mac: How-To Guide
If you’re looking to take your JavaScript coding to another level, Treehouse offers unlimited-access courses in JavaScript (and many other subjects) starting at $25/month. Try our program out with a free seven-day trial today. JavaScript is one of the most…
Updated on May 21, 2015 in Treehouse News
New Courses: Learn Swift
We have launched four new courses that will help you learn Swift, the exciting new iOS language. Swift Basics by Amit Bijlani Swift is a new programming language created by Apple to program iOS apps. If you are new to…
Updated on July 14, 2015 in Learn
Customize Ordered Lists with the ::before Pseudo- Element
Web browsers let you customize the look of most aspects of a page using CSS. But when rendering some page elements, web browsers are resistant to your styling efforts. For example, form elements like select menus, radio buttons and checkboxes…
Updated on October 20, 2017 in Learn
Five Virtues of a Good Software Developer
Recently I was watching a video by John Carmack the creator of Quake and Doom on the process of software development. He has has been developing software for over 20 years and is at the top of his game. And…
Updated on May 21, 2015 in Learn
How to Land Quality Clients
As a web designer or developer, you have a solid grasp of code and design. Your portfolio is stocked with impressive work. You’re ready for the freelance journey. Great! There’s still one skill you’ll need to master, though, and it’s…
Updated on May 21, 2015 in Learn
jQuery Plugins for HTML Tables
(Photo from Flickr user Jeremy Levine) HTML tables have a bad reputation. In the 1990’s and 2000’s, many web professionals would use tables for positioning text and images on web pages. Using tables for layout is bad, but unfortunately that message sometimes…
Updated on June 7, 2023 in Learn
Five Android Interfaces That REALLY Work
It is not unusual for conversations about Android design to turn ugly. While it’s true that the original design of the intrepid operating system were inferior to iOS, and that the old Android Market, without any oversight, was full of…
Updated on October 5, 2018 in Business Resources
Code Oregon – 4,000 Spots Already Taken
In just two weeks, four thousand people have signed up for Code Oregon, the partnership between Treehouse and Worksystems designed to get Oregonians skilled up to work in the tech industry. There are only 10,000 places available so spots are…