About a year ago, my co-founders and I were talking about how difficult it is for real beginners to get started making web applications. Between setting up a development environment, learning how to program, configuring servers, etc., the entire idea can seem insurmountable to someone who's never done it before.

We brainstormed for a while, decided we would do a video series, and then went straight to creating videos that would teach absolute beginners how to go from nothing to deploying a site on DotCloud. Twifbook (our silly portmanteau) is the site that everyone who follows every single video will launch, live, to their own domain name (yes, we walk you through that as well).

I want to give a huge shout-out to CodeAcademy for doing an incredible job getting the general entrepreneurial community jazzed about programming. Our goal is to put a more practical spin on it--and get people using their programming knowledge to actually launch things.

Let us know what you think!

What are you using for payments?

I want to suggest the site to several friends, but don't feel completely comfortable with the current payment form/lack of transparency. Looks like a great idea for people with an idea but no experience developing.

Lesson 5 and 6 are CSS "Part I and Part II"...I'm assuming these are introductory and early-intermediary lessons aimed at relative beginners? And so Lesson 7 is "Organization in Django"? Managing a MVC framework seems like too big of a jump for a HTML/CSS beginner.