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Field Manuals · 30-day courses · built, not watched

A month of daily orders beats a year of bookmarks.

The Field Manual publishes 30-day courses for people who learn by building. Each one hands you a single plan: what to learn today, what to build today, and which free resources are actually worth your time. Day 30 ends with something real, shipped.

Start with Web Design — $29 See how a day works
One plan, not a playlist
No decisions to make except showing up. The sequence is the product.
You build every day
Every day ends in something you made, from Day 1 onward.
Free tools, always
Every manual is built around software that costs nothing.
Bought once, yours forever
No subscription, no login, no expiry. Works offline.

The catalog

Manuals in print, and manuals in progress.

Every Field Manual follows the same 30-day structure, so once you've finished one, you already know how to work the next.

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The 30-Day Web Design Field Manual

Go from never having written a line of code to designing, building, and deploying professional, accessible, responsive websites — with four projects and a capstone in your portfolio.

30 days4 projects + capstone80–95 hours90+ resourcesHTML · CSS · JS · Figma
$29
One-time
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In development

The 30-Day Figma Field Manual

Interface design as a craft: layout, type, color, components, and prototyping — 30 days of designing real screens rather than watching someone else design them.

30 daysDesign

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In development

The 30-Day Freelance Field Manual

Turning a skill into paid work: positioning, pricing, proposals, contracts, and finding the first five clients — one concrete action per day.

30 daysBusiness

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The method

Every day of every manual has the same five parts.

The format never changes, so the only thing you ever have to think about is the work itself.

Part 1

The Mission

One sentence naming today's goal. You always know why today matters.

Part 2

Learn

Focused written teaching — the mental models and the reasons, not just the syntax.

Part 3

Build

Numbered, hands-on steps. Every day produces something that didn't exist this morning.

Part 4

Resources

Two or three hand-picked free links. The best of the internet, minus the rabbit holes.

Part 5

Checkpoint

Self-test questions. Answer them and you're ready for tomorrow.

What a Field Manual is

A training plan, not a library.

The internet already has every lesson you could need. What it doesn't have is an order — and that, not a shortage of information, is what stops most people.

Curation is the work

Each manual points you at the best free material in the world — MDN, freeCodeCamp, the good YouTube channels — at the exact moment it becomes useful, and never before.

Text you can work beside

These are written manuals, not video courses. You can read a step, do it, and re-read it a week later in ten seconds. Video is linked when video genuinely teaches better.

A finish line, on purpose

Subscription platforms profit when you never finish. A manual has 30 days and an ending — you either did it or you didn't.

Proof you can show

Every manual ends with work you can hand to someone: shipped projects, a live site, a portfolio — not a completion certificate nobody asked for.