Instructors & Practitioners

What people who actually build things say about this work

Web design looks straightforward from the outside. Once you start, the questions pile up fast. The instructors at Dhark Veltex have been through that — and they share what genuinely helped, not just what sounds good in a course description.

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2017 Teaching web design since

Perspectives from people who teach this every week

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Olena Bylinska Layout & Visual Structure

Students often ask why their page looks fine in Figma but falls apart in the browser. The answer is almost always the same: they skipped understanding how flow works. Once that clicks, everything else starts making sense faster.

CSS flow Layouts
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Taras Kovalchuk Typography & Readability

I see people spend hours picking fonts and then apply them at the wrong size, with no line-height thought through at all. Readability is mostly math — once you understand the scale, your eye starts trusting your choices.

Typography Scale
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Marta Pylypenko Color & Contrast

Color theory can feel abstract until you check a 2.8:1 contrast ratio against WCAG and realize a whole section of your design is inaccessible. We always start from constraints — they make the creative part easier, not harder.

Color Accessibility
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Vasyl Horobets Responsive Design

Designing only for desktop in 2024 is like writing for one browser. Mobile-first isn't a trend — it's just the correct order. Starting small forces you to prioritize what actually matters on a page.

Responsive Mobile-first
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Roksolana Dudko UI Components

There's a habit of reinventing every button and form from scratch. Knowing which patterns already exist — and why they exist — saves hours. Understanding conventions gives you permission to break them thoughtfully.

UI patterns Components
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Yurii Marchenko HTML & Semantics

Using a div for everything works until it doesn't. Semantic HTML affects screen readers, search engines, and the maintainability of your own code six months later. It's one of those habits worth building early.

HTML5 Semantics

Things we get asked about constantly in sessions

Some questions come up every cohort regardless of experience level. These are real recurring topics from both group classes and individual sessions — not a curated list, just what students actually get stuck on.

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Flexbox vs Grid "When do I use which?" — it comes down to one dimension versus two. Flexbox handles rows or columns; Grid handles both at once. — Olena Bylinska, Layout sessions
Font sizing units px gives you control, rem respects user preferences. Most of the time, rem wins for body text and headings once you understand the math. — Taras Kovalchuk, Typography sessions
How many colors are too many Three is usually enough: one neutral, one primary, one accent. Adding a fourth before the first three are working well is how designs get cluttered. — Marta Pylypenko, Color workshops
Why does my layout break on small screens Fixed widths. Almost always. Switching to percentages or max-width solves the problem for 80% of cases without touching a single media query. — Vasyl Horobets, Responsive sessions

A few numbers worth knowing

Not marketing figures — just honest data from sessions held since the platform launched. Updated periodically when we have enough to say something meaningful.

1,400+ Students taught since 2017 Across group cohorts and one-on-one sessions. Most found us through word of mouth, which we take as a reasonable sign things are working.
6 Active instructors Each focuses on a specific area rather than trying to cover everything.
89% Return rate for second courses Students who finish one course and come back for another within 12 months.
3.5h Avg. weekly study time What most students actually manage, not what brochures say is "recommended."
Students who complete the full program 74%
Sessions rated helpful or very helpful 91%
Students who chose individual sessions after group 48%