One Month After Launch
By Ryan Carson @ryancarson
08 July 2010 | Category: Uncategorized
It's been a whirlwind month since we launched Think Vitamin Membership. We've been absolutely blown away. Our goals for new signups in the first month were surpassed after just 10 hours - and they're still pouring in. Thank you!
In case you missed it, TVM is our new service that offers super high quality training videos for web designers, front-end developers and developers. In addition to the videos, all members get free tickets to Think Vitamin Online Conferences. Yeah baby! :)
Adding a Bit of Delight
Inspired by Aarron Walters talk at FOWD London about delighting your users, we created a special illustrated icon set (done by the talented @mikekus) to give to all Members.
We gave this icon set away by creating a new style of message in the interface where we could insert messages, like this …
We’ve also got a ton of other fun message styles so we can make Members feel really welcome and loved on …
Free Videos
We make 10% of the videos free for the public to view, so here are a couple videos for you to enjoy on Ruby and Node.js.
You can keep up-to-date with new videos by following @tvm_news or subscribing to the RSS feed of new videos.
Intro to Ruby
Intro to Node.js
What Topics?
So far, we’ve been tackling these subjects:
And soon, we’ll be adding …
- PHP
- HTML Email Design
- Getting started with HTML/CSS
- Accessibility (and WAI-ARIA)
- and more …
Big Discounts
Gold and Diamond members just got $300 off tickets on Future of Web Design NYC (not released to the public).
Online Conferences
All members get free tickets to our Online Conferences (worth $150 each). Here are a few upcoming topics:
July 2010
- jQuery
- UX and Usability
August 2010
- Business of Web Design
- HTML and CSS
September 2010
- JavaScript
- iPhone App Dev
October 2010
- CSS3
- Web Typography
November 2010
- HTML5
- ASP.NET-MVC
December 2010
- iPhone App Design
- Faster Websites
January 2011
- Geolocation
- Code Management and Deployment
February 2011
- NoSQL
- Amazon Web Services
March 2011
- User Testing
- Design Inspiration and Creativity
April 2011
- jQuery
- Google Analytics
May 2011
- Payment Processing and Invoicing
- Ruby on Rails
June 2011
- Photoshop
- PHP
July 2011
- App Planning
- HTML5
August 2011
- CSS3
Feedback?
We’d love to hear your feedback on the service, so feel free to hit us up in the comments below or on email at hello@thinkvitamin.com – thanks!
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