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Ok, well my series is focused on teaching developers how to create their own simple frameworks to suit specifics needs. It will also explain fundamental design principles using popular sites as examples of why their design works.

Anyway, I'm halway through making my series so I'm gonna launch that and if it's received well I'll probably do a bootstrap customisation series too.

Slightly controversial question, but how much would you be willing to pay for a series like this? I think I paid €80 for Michael Hartl's rails tutorial series and I was satisfied with that price.

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There are different market segments in in the web design world. there are those that want to learn how to design something from scratch, and then there are those who want to learn enough to build upon the work of others (bootstrap, jQuery UI, etc.). I fall into the latter category, so I can't give any recommendation on the course structure or cost.

That said, there is a lot of buzz around bootstrap v2 now, so you might consider doing it the other way around - pick a few bootstrap customizations as a teaser class to help built market momentum for the full classes.

Yeah I'm kinda trying to cover both bases, offering enough to guide someone through the full design process from scratch, but breaking it up into segments so someone like yourself can skim through it.

Interesting idea, I may end up doing that.

Anyway, I'll probably giveaway a bunch of free subscriptions to help get it off the ground. I don't have time right now to build a launch page and get hosting, so if anyone's interested, shoot me your name and email address at colmtuite@gmail.com and I might get in touch when I launch.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Regardless of what price you end up deciding on, please provide people with a way of leaving their email address with you.

I am interested in your video series and may buy them, but right now:

- I have no way of finding out when you're done, except for polling you, which ups the burden on me

- I am likely to forget about you

- I am likely to miss your announcement that you're opening up shop

A simple "leave your email here if you want to be kept up to date" form would be awesome !

Ok so took your advice and threw a launch page up. You can leave your email and I'll notify you when I'm ready to launch.

http://www.designskool.com

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