1. CSS
  2. Flash
  3. HTML
  4. Illustrator
  5. Java
  6. JavaScript
  7. Maya
  8. Photography
  9. Photoshop
  10. PHP
  11. Ruby
  12. Ruby on Rails
  13. 3ds Max

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You've stumbled on the little blog for Good-Tutorials. These posts are penned by Zach Holman. This blog is a good way to stay current on newest features on Good-Tutorials. If you want to hear some of the inside scoop behind development or catch some sneak peeks at new features, you might be interested in following @holman on Twitter.


JavaScript Tutorials

Posted by Zach Holman over 2 years ago — 9 comments

With Flash released earlier and CSS and HTML tutorials added recently, it seemed suitable to finish up the major portions of client-side development today with JavaScript tutorials. Have a ball learning about adding some dynamic user interactions to your website.

Yes, I realize the problem here: with more and more topics getting added, some portions of the site get a little bit hairy. There will be a refresh for the sidebar here shortly, and hot on its heels will be a few smaller changes for the tutorial submission form (since I know at this point it can be a real pain to scroll through all of those entries).

Enjoy some JavaScript.


User pages, checking your tutorial comments

Posted by Zach Holman over 2 years ago — 7 comments

So, in a bit of a surprise move even for myself, I apparently kept on going from the comment restyling and went ahead and added some to your user pages. There's some new styling for your user profile (my profile, for example), but the bigger addition is the ability to see who's been commenting on your tutorials.

This is a request I've gotten more than a few times the past couple weeks, and I'm happy to finally be able to include it. What's more, you'll now have an RSS feed that you can subscribe to from that page, so if you're a tutorial author you can submit your new tutorial, subscribe to your RSS feed for comments, and you'll get any new comments on your tutorials piped directly to your RSS reader. It's a quick and easy way to help you stay on top of what people are saying about your work.


Updating comments

Posted by Zach Holman over 2 years ago — 9 comments

Tonight I went in and cleaned up the look of comments a little bit more. I think they're a bit cleaner overall now. I also wanted a way to identify moderators and myself (for those of you who don't know me) so that tutorial authors can know where the feedback's coming from, so to speak. Hopefully that will reduce some confusion in the future.

In other words, I just wanted to make comments a little more discussion-like, which is a direction we'll be heading more towards over the coming weeks and months.

Comment away. :)


CSS and HTML

Posted by Zach Holman over 2 years ago — 11 comments

Not much of a suprise here; CSS and HTML tutorials have been added to Good-Tutorials. It just seems fitting given the increasing usage and popularity of the PHP and Ruby on Rails sections of the site. I was planning on just doing CSS first or just doing HTML first, but I figured that there'd be a lot of confusion, with HTML tutorials being submitted in the CSS section or vice versa, so you're getting two new topics today. :)

And, as usual, a lot going on behind the scenes in the past couple of days- should be some performance gains, and I cleaned up some formatting on tutorials a few days ago. The front page only has blog post titles instead of a short description, and I finally got around to paginating the blog itself. And lately I've been spending a lot of time planning and researching some of the major features I have planned for release in the next month or two... ;)


Adobe Illustrator, Speedups, and Updates

Posted by Zach Holman over 2 years ago — 11 comments

Today I'm pleased to announce the addition of Adobe Illustrator to the family of tutorials here at Good-Tutorials. This is in part due to the high demand shown in the previous blog post; thanks to all of those who commented. I think this will be a pretty healthy addition to the site, and hopefully it helps start driving some more attention to Illustrator (and Illustrator tutorials) in general.

Alongside Illustrator, there's a few of the normal updates as well. There were a few non-trivial database optimizations tossed on the site, so theoretically there will be some speedups on tutorial pages (although whether or not you really notice it might be another question). Regardless, I've been pretty happy with load times since the launch of the new version.

Also a few bug fixes: the pagination links are displayed normally again (not spaced out all funky-like), a couple backend updates, and there was one or two other smaller CSS fixes tossed in there at some point too. Nothing major at the moment, but that mostly reflects my current schedule. I'll free up a lot of time in a few weeks, and once I hit that there will be some much larger additions that I can focus my efforts on.