Building and maintaining well-designed websites is becoming even more crucial for businesses as consumers look online before making purchase decisions. These businesses are on the look-out for trained web developers who can design user-friendly, responsive websites that also perform well on different bandwidths. To jump start your web development career, join one of these 15 web development training courses online.

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2. W3SCHOOLS
While many web training sites look colourful, attractive, and welcoming, with
video and colourful graphics, W3Schools looks a bit flat and boring at first
glance. But don't be put off!
If you're looking to start from the beginning with the most basic lessons in HTML
and CSS, the site offers a steady progression of interactive tutorials that
explains everything in plain and simple language and, more importantly, lets
you play with markup live on the site, so you can see what effect the tiniest
changes can have on how a web page appears in the browser.
For a beginner who doesn't know quite where to start with HTML, CSS, and
JavaScript, it still provides a very user-friendly, straightforward and free way
to get going.

3. OPERA WEB STANDARD CURRICULUM
The good people who work at the Opera browser created and maintain this free
and comprehensive resource introducing the basics of web design and web
standards. Like W3Schools, it's based around plain text and not exactly
visually seductive. But the writing is lively and easy to follow, which more than
makes up for that.

4. GOOGLE CODE UNIVERSITY
Google's lessons in "HTML, CSS, and Javascript from the Ground Up" presents
the basics of building websites with video tutorials presented by Google's own
developers. A perfect place for beginners to start with their web design
training.

5. TREEHOUSE
Treehouse is a video-based service, offering web design training in HTML and
CSS, web development (including HTML5 and Javascript), and creating iOS
apps (using Objective-C and Xcode), all wrapped up in a clear and easy-to-
navigate user interface.
Treehouse charges a subscription for its services, but the videos are very
professionally produced, and you get a wealth of lessons covering almost
every aspect of web design and development.
Not only does Treehouse provide great content but there's also a game element
to the site that tests you on what you've learned and rewards you with
achievement badges. So if you need extra motivation to learn, this is a great
site to use.

6. LYNDA.COM
Like Treehouse, Lynda.com offers a wide range of video-based tutorials that can
teach you how to design websites (as well as covering other design-related
subjects) for a monthly fee. Lynda.com has been around since the dawn of
the web (it launched in 1995), and also produces books, videos, and
documentaries. An authoritative source of web design training videos, you
can get a taster by checking out its free tutorials.

7. DON'T FEAR THE INTERNET
Don't Fear the Internet is the brainchild of freelance typographer and illustrator
Jessica Hische, and is aimed at similarly creative people who have little to no
desire to do web design professionally - but at the same time don't want an
ugly cookie-cutter site showcasing their work.
Through short tutorial videos, you’ll learn how to take a basic WordPress blog
and manipulate the CSS, HTML, and even some PHP, to match your
aesthetic needs. So if you're scared off by web design terminlogy and general
geekdom, but like the idea of a more casual, good-humoured approach to
learning, this is a great place to begin. The site is free to use, although
donations are welcomed.

8. MOZILLA SCHOOL OF WEBCRAFT
No, we haven't added a rogue Harry Potter game in the list. The Mozilla School of
Webcraft is part of an open education programme at the online community for
learning, Peer to Peer University.
The site offers a host of free web design training courses, including ones in CSS,
PHP, and HTML. It also features various challenges to test your skills: for
example, Challenge 101 will help you create your own basic website from
scratch.

9. NETMAGAZINE.COM
Our sister website, from the makers of monthly print mag .net magazine, is
packed full of tutorials on all aspects of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and
more. Most of the material here is aimed at intermediate to advanced web
designers, and we'd particularly recommend the series entitled "Build a
responsive site in a week" for anyone wishing to get started with responsive
web design.

10. SMASHING MAGAZINE
It's not actually a magazine (well, not in the traditional print sense of the word),
but the web design blog Smashing Magazine is a fantastic resource of
tutorials on all aspects of the process. Likenetmagazine.com, the lessons are
aimed at the intermediate to advanced end of the web design spectrum.

11. CODECADEMY
Codecademy describes itself as the 'easiest way to learn how to code' and has
established a great reputation for itself within the web design community.
This free web design training resource runs through the path of building websites,
games, and apps in an engaging way, easing users in gently with a very basic
first lesson.
The site also features a social network aspect, meaning users can interact with
and learn alongside friends and colleagues. And, like Treehouse, the team at
Codecademy also understand the power of a badge, offering them at various
key points in the training.

12. WEBDESIGNTUTS+
Webdesigntuts+ offers a huge range of tutorials on a wide range of web design
and web development topics for free. There's also a premium area with paid
content. The site's part of the wider Tuts+ network, which includes PSD
Tuts for Photoshop tutorials and WP Tuts for WordPress tutorials.

13. CODE SCHOOL
Code School's approach is to help users learn by doing, through interactive video
and coding in the browser. This web design training comes at a price but, in
our opinion, it's very reasonable.
For just $25 a month, users gain access to all areas to the school's entire training
content. But this is not just for individuals, there's also the option for
businesses to enrol entire teams on training courses - an offer that the likes of
IBM and NASA have already taken advantage of.

14. CSS-TRICKS
CSS-Tricks is a blog where web designer Chris Coyier walks through some of the
latest CSS techniques. It's become immensely popular among professional
web designers, and has recently developed a partnership with number 4 on
our list, Treehouse. It's a brilliant and constantly updated source of tips,
tutorials, and video lessons - all free.

15. SITEPOINT
Australian company Sitepoint makes its money selling web design and
development books, but that doesn't stop it providing some fantastic tutorials
on its site for free. These tend towards the techie, but there are also some
useful introductions to web design for beginners, such asthis article on HTML
and CSS.

16. UDACITY
Want to learn how to build a simple web browser in just seven weeks? Or how to
build a search engine like Google? Well, with Udacity you can do both and
best of all the training is absolutely free and is led by expert professors from
Stanford and the University of Virginia.
For anyone interested, courses are not offered on-demand. Instead, prospective
students can visit the website for a class schedule and enrol accordingly.