So I know this is a blog about web design and development, but I thought I’d start my news post by announcing a brand new site we just launched called AudioJungle! It’s a stock music and sound site, which expands off FlashDen into the audio market, and we’re super excited about the launch.
Thank Goodness for CSS
A little while back I wrote here an article titled 7 Tips for Designing and Maintaining a Large Site where I talked about some of my experiences with FlashDen. Well I have an 8th tip now – Make Use of CSS!
When building AudioJungle, we saved enormous amounts of time by simply running an extra stylesheet over the top of the existing FlashDen set. This is kind of like those sites which let you choose what colours you want to use, except on a bigger scale. It took a little while to accomplish, but not nearly as much as laying things out all over again.
NETTUTS News
Meanwhiles here on NETTUTS, it’s been a month since we launched and incredibly the site has attracted over 6,000 subscribers! A big thank you to SixRevisions who placed us right at the top of their well-dugg post 30 Websites to follow if you’re into Web Development.
Interestingly, our sister site PSDTUTS was also on the list, but about half way down the list. This meant I got to measure the traffic difference in being at position #1 and #15 on a list that gets dugg. While PSDTUTS received about 2,000 visitors from SixRevisions, this site received almost 10 times that number!
If you’re into SEO, you probably know a similar rule applies in Google placement. If you are come up at the top of the first page, you are apparently likely to receive something like 14x the traffic of the 10th spot. You can read more about this on the excellent SEOBook website in the article How Much is a #1 Google Ranking Worth?
In other news, we’ve had a great supply of tutorial submissions coming in, and you’ll have noticed the number of authors here is quickly increasing as we publish reader contributions. Also the talented Raj Dash who wrote up our CSS Grid Frameworks post the other day has signed on to write many more in-depth posts. So I hope to slowly up the number of posts we get out a week to publish all the new contributions.
And if you have a moment …
Finally if you have a moment, with AudioJungle going up, I thought I would submit it to some social media sites to make traffic :-) So if you have a moment, and like the site, I’d really appreciatea vote!
- Stumble:
http://audiojungle.net - Digg:
http://digg.com/music/Microstock_Sound_AudioJungle_Launches - Reddit:
http://reddit.com/info/6l1f3/comments/ - Mixx:
http://www.mixx.com/stories/336638/sound_and_audio_stock_audiojungle - Propeller:
http://music.propeller.com/story/2008/05/27/audiojungle-launches/ - DesignFloat:
http://www.designfloat.com/WebDesign/audiojungle-launches/
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omg… 6000 readers is something….
This site is cool. Great design as always! Ive already added this on cssbuilt.com. Thanks Collis :)
I’ve just bookmarked this site already.
Thanks Joefrey!
Awesome news, I love it :)
Great news!
David Carreira
Great news – this site is going great so far, and I dugg, etc. audiojungle already!
You’re launching a new site like every month!!! It’s ridiculous & fantastic! :D
Congrats on the growth of this site Collis and the Audio site looks like a hit!
Hi Collis, does the number of sent in tutorials really mean that I don’t get notified whether or not my tutorial was accepted? I’ve been eagerly checking my mail the last days, since i sent in a sequel to your Amazon AWS tutorial :)
So am i still waiting on nothing or haven’t you been able to open my contribution yet :)?
And of course congratulations on AudioJungle. I totally love it, even though I suck on audio.
Jurgenv (from over at FlashDen)
I’ve had a chance to browse around now, and the site is awesome, well done :D
wow really love this one. In fact I bookmark it. thank you guys for this such an informative and awesome website :-) great job I love it.
great to see more content coming!
also congrats on AudioJungle!
Collis,
Great to hear everything’s going well for NETTUTS and PSDTUTS. Subscribership is doing awesome. I signed up when there were 2,000 subscribers (most were probably followers from PSDTUTS and FreelanceSwitch), and that was three weeks ago, right now there’s over 6,000 subscribers!
I knew I had to put NETTUTS on Six Revision’s #1 spot; if it’s anything like PSDTUTS, we’re in for a lot more high-quality tutorials, thorough tutorials.
Regards,
Jacob
this is the same design as FlashDen…no wonder how he manage to built a new website every week…
Hey Collis,
congrats on the new sites, i really hope everything goes well with them.
i know that id be interested in case study/walk-through of the audio jungle site. how about it?
pleeeease. ;)
very nice, love the lizard tale
This is a nice site. keep doing the good work!
I love psdtuts and this site!
this site is my morning breakfast!
I really dig the design.
Blimey Collis – do you ever sleep?
Interesting site – I’ll be sure to keep checking it out, as I do all your others :)
You guys are killing it!
Hmmm….. 20,000, that’s amazing. Congrats, can’t wait to start seeing the submitted tutorials being made onto the site with a tut a day.
Looking forward to touch the 2nd target :)
You have such a nice network Coolis. Congrats
Congratz!