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Libraries and Training

• Accessibility course from Udacity, a free course by Google.
• ACM offers over 1,700 courses from the Skillsoft Learning Collections to members.
• Wes Bos offers a range of free and chargeable video-based training courses including:
  • ES6 for Everyone
  • Learn Node!
  • JavaScript30 a month of free JavaScript training exercises.
  • What the FlexBox?! with 20-part video training.
  • Mastering Markdown
• ClickMinded SEO training includes updates. A good AppSumo offer.
• Code School, part of PluralSight, teaches web technologies in the browser, with videos and challenges.
• CSS Layout Workshops by Rachel Andrew include updates and a Slack group.
• The Digital Garage from Google. Free tutorials on websites, advertising, and online marketing. Endorsed by the Internet Advertising Bureau UK.
• EdX offer a range of free MOOCs. Many have the option of a verified completion certificate. For example, the W3C-endorsed MOOCs on HTML5 and CSS.
• Google analytics beginners course and a range of ‘one-hour’ video courses by Corey Rabazinski.
• Lynda.com offers subscribers a collection of video courses across technology, creative and business skills, including web design and production.
• Jerry Banfield courses on Teachable include several on advertising using major web platforms. Jerry Banfield is also an instructor on Skillshare (see Skillshare entry below). University of Jerry Banfield brings together a number of Jerry’s courses. Jerry also has many videos on his YouTube channel. I am a lifetime subscriber to Jerry’s courses, including the University of Jerry Banfield at uthena.com
• Mozilla Developer Network (MDN), Shared knowledge for the Open Web: web platform, Firefox and developer tools, tutorials and reference material.
• Pay Per Click (PPC) training by Jeff Sauer.
• Safari Books Online provides subscription access to ebooks and videos by O’Reilly and others, including all the Velocity conference videos and books from APress, Packt and SitePoint.
• Servers for Hackers by Chris Fidao.
• Shay Howe’s courses on HTML and CSS.
• SitePoint web development books, blogs, newsletters, videos, SitePoint books’ sample code on GitHub, SitePoint Premium courses (formerly Learnable). I am a lifetime Premium subscriber.
• Skillshare is a subscription-based site offering video training courses in a wide range of skills including some related to building and running web sites. Some courses are free.
• Smashing Magazine web design and development publications including Smashing Library books.
• SoloLearn free, mobile code learning aiming to prove that everyone can code and that coding is fun. Courses include C++, Java, Python 3, CSS, HTML JavaScript, PHP, SQL Fundamentals and Ruby.
• StackSkills training courses including web testing and programming.
• Udacity training courses. In addition to nanodegree programs, Udacity offers a range of stand-alone free courses such as Website Performance Optimization, Responsive Images, Website Accessibility and Starting Git.
• Udemy paid and free web development courses.
• W3C offers W3C-branded training courses on edX. The first course was on HTML5.1x Web Design Fundamentals Part 1 and was free to take with a fee for validation. The certificates are validated with a GPG signature.
• W3CSchools web development references, tutorials and examples.
• Russ Weakly has courses with Sitepoint on a range of HTML and CSS topics.
• Web Analytics training courses by Jeff Sauer. Now on the site My Data Driven.

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