Online Tutorials Done Right
I’ve never been much of a tutorial guy as I’ve always found that most tutorials are either to time-intensive or not very well written. That doesn’t however mean that I could not have used some great design & web tutorials in the past (if I had quality resources available, I could’ve increased my design skills considerably). Luckily though, two new(ish) resources are easily establishing themselves as the auhtoritative tutorial resource in the community…
I’ve been following PSDTUTS for a while now and even attempted the odd tutorial myself. The only reason that I haven’t been using it on a daily basis, is due to time constraints on my side; that said though, I’ve been so impressed with the quality and in-depth nature of the tutorials on PSDTuts and I’ve managed to learn some pretty nifty new Photoshop techniques in the process.
I love the fact that all the tutorials on PSDTuts are crowdsourced and they thus manage to get some of the greatest Photoshop rockstars around the world to contribute to the site and ultimately educate the masses (read: wannabe Photoshop rockstars like myself). Offering a subscription option (that gives access to the tutorials’ Photoshop files), it is clear that the creators has spent a great deal of time figuring out the best business model.
Evolution is here
With the announcement of PSDTuts’ new sister site - NETTuts - I think that they’ve just evolved (and perhaps revolutionized) their tutorial offerings! NETTuts will be delivering XHTML, CSS, Flash & jQuery (amonst others) tutorials in the same way that PSDTuts has been delivering Photoshop tutorials.
The thing that however really excites me, is the “combo-tutorials” that will be published between the two different properties. An example of this would be the recent tutorial on how to create a sleek new web presence, where the design aspects were covered here and the coding stuff here. Don’t you just think that is awesome?
Think I’ll need to spend some more time reading (and perhaps writing) tutorials in the coming weeks…
(Image by *Urbaani)
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