About the Gorilla Guide

The Gorilla Guide started out as a book to show how to build real websites in simple terms on a need to know basis. This website itself originated as a reference guide to augment that book. Pretty soon it became clear that the book needed some kind of course to help people get started building their own website. The idea was not to create a course that was academic. What was needed was a course that was hands on. Plasticine for grown-ups. It needed to be both enjoyable and productive. A course where the participants actually put their own personally designed and built honest-to-goodness website alive on the world wide web.

The result is the Gorilla Guide Website Workshops. It builds on known concepts to bring a clear understanding of how the web works to ordinary, non-technical people who have businesses and interests they want to promote. Participants discover that web design can be fun as well as creative.

The next step will be to introduce web hosting services later this year. This will complete a trilogy of web services.

In the meantime please make good use of the web design reference section, which focuses on things not documented in a sufficiently accessible way elsewhere.

The Gorilla,
March 2010