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.


Tutorials: what do you want to see next?

Posted by Zach Holman over 2 years ago — 32 comments

I have a pretty good idea of which sort of tutorials will be appearing on Good-Tutorials over the next couple of weeks and months. Some of them are for your run-of-the-mill software, some of them include some new areas not quite touched upon yet. So I know which tutorials I'd like to include eventually, but I'd love to have your input on what you'd like to see sooner rather than later. I'm pretty flexible on the order of when I add tutorial topics.

So if you have any input, now's the time. Which areas are you most interested in? What new topics are you going to be learning in the next couple of weeks?


Bucketload of smaller updates

Posted by Zach Holman over 2 years ago — 4 comments

I just pushed out a bunch of (albeit smaller) updates to the site. For the most part you might not notice many changes, although there might be a smaller minority of you out there where this will really help you out. Here's a quick listing of most of these changes.

  • Search now works for special characters, like "web 2.0".
  • RSS is updated to better handle tutorials without thumbnails (like PHP or Ruby tutorials).
  • Tutorials without thumbnails (again, PHP or Ruby tutorials, for example) now get a link on their individual page (ie, the stats, comments, share, etc page). In other words, if you're commenting on a tutorial, you can finally click on the title of the tutorial to view it.
  • Fixed some issues with URLs and special characters on those individual tutorial pages.
  • User profiles now show a healthy limit to your most recent comments.
  • You can check out the number of comments on your tutorials on your tutorial management page in your account.
  • Fixed some small issues with the formatting of a category's name.
  • A cool update for moderators (check out the queue, guys).
  • Some backend refinements to help with the tutorial submission process.
  • The favicon is back in your address bar.

So no, not a bunch of really cool new features, but hopefully this will help make for a smoother experience overall. I'm not just sitting back and relaxing over here. :) Besides which, there'll be plenty of fun stuff coming soon enough.


Good-Tutorials on Rails

Posted by Zach Holman over 2 years ago — 7 comments

It's about that time again for some additions. I'll just go out and admit it- this one's out of selfishness. Good-Tutorials started in PHP, then moved to Java, and it's developed in Ruby on Rails right now. I like Ruby on Rails. I really like it. So I figure, what self-respecting owner of a tutorial website could go without their favorite language and framework listed?

I tried just making a Ruby category and then shoehorning Rails into it (as is the proper way of doing things), but I couldn't seem to make it fit- Ruby's a big topic on its own, and mixing Rails into it really tends to confuse things. For that reason, we're unveiling two new topics today: Ruby, and Ruby on Rails. I'm hoping this will be a very popular section of the site in time, given the strong growth of Ruby on Rails in the web development sector as of late. I have a blast developing my projects in RoR... maybe with some of these tutorials coming you'd like to give it a shot, too. :)

I'll be popping in with a new post in the next few days concerning a few more code updates to the site. Also, if you're still interested in moderating, send in your apps; I'll start approving people as moderators in the next couple of days, too.


Recruiting some moderators

Posted by Zach Holman over 2 years ago — 8 comments

The core of the group of current moderators was recruited from the prior version of Good-Tutorials, when the focus of Good-Tutorials was on Photoshop. As we've now obviously expanded to Flash and PHP (with many more topics in the pipeline), it's become clear that it'd be nice to get some moderators on the team that weren't exclusively Photoshop-oriented.

As I've mentioned before, it's not a terribly huge job; just come on, rate some tutorials, and do this every day or two. For that reason, I'm trying to look for those of you who come on a daily basis anyway- I know there's a bunch of you who are repeat visitors that would like to get access to tutorials earlier than the rest and who wouldn't mind doing the community a bit of service. Through this process we're able to get tutorials listed faster and reviewed better than I used to do alone.

If you're picked, you are probably someone who comes here on a near-daily basis, can exhibit enviable English skills, and are technically inclined towards programming, design, general technology, or otherwise. By the language aspect I mean basically having the ability to determine whether a tutorial is good or not based on how something is written; in my years of reviewing tutorials there is an incredibly high correlation between how well someone writes and whether or not that tutorial is a "good" tutorial.

If you're interested, send me a line at goodness l at l good-tutorials.com with the subject "Moderation", along with your username, any specific area you have a particular interest in, and a one-liner that explains why you should be picked. It's not a huge application process; I just want to find people that are really interested in doing it. I appreciate your time, and look forward to some emails!


Top lists, featured tutorial queue

Posted by Zach Holman over 2 years ago — 6 comments

Updates for April 6, 2007 include a new top list and a featured tutorial queue. For the top list, you can now view the top tutorials for a variety of different areas. For tutorials: top comments, clicks, clicks per month, clicks per day, saves, rating. For users: clicks on their tutorials, and number of submitted tutorials.

The top list can be found at:

http://www.good-tutorials.com/top

A commonly-requested feature was to make the wait list for featured tutorials public again. When you click on a "feature this tutorial" link, the possible advertising topics will now have a "next available" line next to them so you can get an idea of when your tutorial will get featured.

Also, a few bug fixes went through, most notably was the bug with usernames having a period in them. So those of you with domain names as your username should have no more issues in that regard any more.

Until next time, have a good one!