The Go-Getter’s Guide to Self-Development: Spice Up Yourself! [May Online Courses Edition]

31 May 2017 Ann King

What’s up, guys? 🙂

Have you enjoyed our April online courses? We hope so; it’s time to share updates, so, let’s dive into the whole power of May self-development!

Firstly, I want to mention that online courses are a great opportunity to get to know about new things and to improve our skills. In fact, lots of people unfairly associate online education with something annoying and time-wasting. To the contrary, it is an ideal tool to brighten up your leisure and to boost your outlook on life.

As a person who adores learning, I wanted to assemble the coolest online courses in one place so that I could self-development in a variety of fields! That is what I did and would now like to share them with you, guys 🙂

So, let’s enrich the last month of spring with cool educational and entertaining goods!

Creative achievements in design!

Drawing on Everything: Discovering Your Creative Voice

A gentle and gorgeous visual artist Shantel Martin is waiting for you to join her useful online course! Basically, Shantel will show you her studio in NYC and will enlighten you about her projects and sources of inspiration. Moreover, the primary mission of her course is to find your goals by pushing all your limitations to one side. Therefore, if you’re a creator, hurry up and join this hassle-free self-development online course!

Duration: 28m

Cost: The course is premium. You can unlock the access to 15.000 online courses by choosing your preferred plan. Monthly - $12, Annual- $8 per month, billed $96 once a year, Teams - per student/billed annually (learn more). A free trial is also available.

Lettering for Designers: One Drop Cap Letterform at a Time

Jessica Hische, a letterer, and Illustrator will help you to create beautiful designs with creative lettering. Learn all about lettering foundations, find out what makes a letter look captivating and intriguing, and start your project curated by Jessica from a single but excellent letter!

Duration: 1h 40m

Simple Character Animation

Fraser Davidson, an award-winning London-based, Director and Animator, presents to you his online animation course! As a matter of fact, people talk about animation as the future of design, so, get involved in this straightforward and clearly explained course that will cover all your animation-related questions. Additionally, you will learn how to create your designs in Illustrator, how to build and rig in After Effects, how to make your character come alive, and how to get it into a GIF format! You will design your own character in an animated run cycle during the course, so, hurry up and make something lifelike!

Duration: 59m

Cost: This self-development course is premium. You can unlock the access to 15.000 online courses by choosing your preferred plan. Monthly - $12, Annual- $8 per month, billed $96 once a year, Teams - per student/billed annually (learn more). A free trial is also available.

Logo Design with Draplin: Secrets of Shape, Type and Color

Aaron Draplin, a Portland-based designer, can’t wait to share with you all essentials of the logo design process. In brief, you will learn the best techniques, tips, and tricks that always work for creating stunning logos.

Duration: 1h 7m

Classic Pattern Designs - Make a Toile de Jouy pattern

Can’t live without beautiful patterns? Get to know their history and styles, design your pattern and create its motifs, edit your patterns in Adobe Illustrator, and more together with Bärbel Dressler in her new online course!

Duration: 1h 47m

UI & Web Design using Adobe Illustrator 2017

Dreaming of becoming a successful User Interface designer? Daniel Scott, a Dublin-based web designer, will help you to learn all UI design essentials and even teach you how to build a professional portfolio website. Use Adobe Illustrator like a pro and upgrade your skills with this online course!

Duration: 4h 7m

Fresh online essentials in development!

CSS Tutorial For Beginners: Style Your WordPress Templates

If you’re familiar with WordPress and HTML, hurry up and join this simple course covered by Eddie Irvin. Generally speaking, you will learn how to spice up premium WordPress themes with good-looking CSS!

Duration: 3h 23m

Cost: This May online course is premium. You can unlock the access to 15.000 online courses by choosing your preferred plan. Monthly - $12, Annual- $8 per month, billed $96 once a year, Teams - per student/billed annually (learn more). A free trial is also available.

HTML By Examples Project 3: Create a digital restaurant menu!

Want to build a mouthwatering digital menu for a restaurant website? Get involved in this quick and reasonably simple online course covered by Jan Zavrel. The full course contains 4 parts that will help you to become familiar with DIVs and background images, elements positioning, block & inline elements difference, gradient in CSS, third-party fonts, responsive design, and more! Build your own web page by the end of the course!

Duration: 1h 13m

Shopify Essentials for Web Developers: From Store Setup to Custom Themes

Wondering on how to create a Shopify Store? Kurt Elster, a senior eCommerce consultant and a co-founder of Ethercycle, is waiting for you with his online course to help you learn all Shopify essentials in detail. In a word, you will create your own Shopify development store during the course.

Duration: 3h 2m

Get started with SASS and improve your CSS workflow

Rob Sutcliffe presents his online course that will help you to learn SASS and to spark your CSS workflow on the fly. Learn a better way of brightening up your website with this course.

Duration: 1h 57m

The Ultimate Step-By-Step Guide to WordPress Security

In essence, this online course covered by Christine Maisel allows you to learn all key points to keep your WordPress-powered website safe and secure. No hackers, no blacklists, only organic ranking and the first-class protection with this online course!

Duration: 1h 14m

Marketing, Business, and Lifestyle with Spring Intentions!

Getting Started with Email Marketing

Allyson Van Houten will guide you in building a strong email marketing campaign to help you to and your business to hit the road running. In fact, quite simply, it's a useful online course!

Duration: 1h 1m

Cost: This self-development course is free 🙂

The Modern Marketing Workshop

Small wonder that marketing has become very powerful nowadays. Seth Godin launched his online course to guide you in all marketing essentials, to enrich you with profitable business opportunities and to teach you to act with as many benefits for your business as possible. Develop your own point of view, tell a business story that will touch people, and create a modern marketing plan during this online course!

Duration: 2h 49m

Stand out and make money on YouTube! - by Professional YouTuber JAZZA (1mil+ subs)

Have you ever dreamed of becoming famous on YouTube? Join this online course covered by a professional YouTuber Josiah (Jazza) Brooks to discover how to create content that stands out and how to turn your channel into a moneymaking machine.

Duration: 2h 7m

Let's Organize! Organization and Productivity Hacks for Busy People [Eazl's Easy MBA Series]

Do you feel messed up? Do not worry, do not give up, and join Davis Jones in his online course that will help you to stay focused on the right things, to organize your activity, to align your emotions, and to increase your productivity.

Duration: 2h

An Insightful Guide to Becoming a Freelancer

Can’t wait to become a freelancer? Wrap up, and join Monika Kanokova in her online course! Join Monika will guide you in all necessary steps to enjoy freelancing and make a lot money doing it. No experience required, just your enthusiastic desire to succeed!

Duration: 1h 3m

Master outsourcing: Manage outsourced teams like a professional

Evan Kimbrell is waiting for you to show you all the ins and outs of outsourcing. Furthermore, you will learn everything about outsourced teams management! This course will save you a lot of time and money, and will help you to boost yourself as a successful entrepreneur!

Duration: 1h 41m

How To Sell Your Art On Etsy in 2017

Looking for the best place to sell your art masterpieces? Meet Etsy! In fact, lots of people worldwide use this platform to sell their handmade goods and to promote themselves. Melanie Greenwood is ready to help you to create a captivating and compelling store on Etsy so you can sell like a pro. Let your products be famous with the help of this online course!

Duration: 4h 20m

Handmade Journals: Mastering The Basics

Kiala Givehand shows you how to create breathtaking handmade journals in her online course! Learn simple book structures, gluing and sewing techniques, and more on your way to gorgeous journals!

Duration: 1h 12m

T-Shirt Screen Printing for Beginners

Do you adore screen printing? In general, this informative online course covered by Doug Vander Meulen will help you to get started with screen printing in little things and to spice up t-shirts with your cool designs. Additionally, this course comes in handy as a great opportunity to start a new hobby!

Duration: 1h 21m

How to Make Gelato: Tips and Recipes to Make the Delightful Italian Frozen Treat

Summer is coming, so, we definitely need to prepare tasty and icy gelato! This course delivered by Marie Asselin will help you to understand the real difference between gelato and ice cream. You will also learn how to make and to serve delicious gelato and how to make it vegan or dairy-free. I’m in love with gelato, so, I’m coming with you to this course! 🙂

Duration: 26m

The Art Of Baking: A Beginner's Guide

Can’t live without baking? This online course should be your goal! Sarah Graham will teach you all cooking basics and will serve you with tips and tricks to bake stunning cakes, bread, etc. Are you still here? Hurry up and enroll!

Duration: 54m

Cost: This self-development course is free 🙂

Getting Started with Wine: Buy Smarter, Taste More

Are you in love with a good wine? If yes, this course should definitely be your goal! Gary Vaynerchuk is ready to help you to familiarise yourself with all wine essentials. In fact, you will learn the correct ways of tasting, selecting, and shopping for wine. Learn expert tips and tricks about each type of wine and get the most out of them!

Duration: 55m

In the long run...

As you can see, there are lots of opportunities to expand your knowledge in a variety of different spheres! I hope that this website themes bundle will help you not only to achieve exceptional results in development, business, and design, but also to learn useful things to improve your everyday living!

Stay Tuned!

What is your favorite online course? What would you like to add to my list? I’m very happy to see your thoughts in the comments section! Please, rate and share this post with your friends so they can grab some cool courses too. Chill out, enjoy the last days of spring, keep calm, and wait for the June bundle! Thanks for reading 🙂

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