If you follow our sister blog PSDTUTS, you may have noticed that last week we updated the design to a new theme – version 4 to be precise – and we’re thrilled today to give NETTUTS a similar makeover!
As you’ll find the new theme is a mix of some cosmetic upgrades and a few new bits of functionality! We now have breadcrumbs, better author profiles on tutorials, tabs to break up post types and a new and improved user link feed. Perhaps the biggest two changes though are that we’ve added:
- Screencasts / Videos
With Jeffrey putting together so many awesome screencasts, it was high time they had their own place on the site. We hope to make this an increasingly important part of the site in the months/years to come. - Freebies
There are so many awesome scripts and components and widgets out there that we’ve added a new section to the site to start aggregating them all. We’ve added a few just now to get the section started and we’ll be adding a couple new link ups each week to build up a nice directory of awesomeness to add to your next project. Anyone can submit their site/script/component/widget to be included and we’ll feature the best that come in, sending traffic and thankful NETTUTS readers out to visit!
Meet the TUTS Team
During these last months we’ve also been improving the team who run these awesome sites. So let me introduce:
- Skellie – The TUTS Manager!
We are VERY proud to have former FreelanceSwitch editor and super talented blogger Skellie managing the TUTS sites. She took over about a month and a half ago and it’s been smooth sailing all the way. As TUTS Manager Skellie is working on our expansion plans, coordinating site editors and making the whole operation more and more efficient. - Derek Herman – HTML / CSS / WordPress Commander
Everything you see before you has been coded up by the fabulous Derek Herman of Valen Designs. These days Derek and I work together a lot to build most of the Envato sites you see / will be seeing. He’s the best front-end coder I’ve ever met and I’m very proud to have my design work chopped up by his formidable skills. - Chris Moyer – PHP Pathfinder
From setting up our Plus programs to keeping the sites up under the ridiculously heavy traffic loads to building new writer / editor infrastructure, Chris Moyer’s keyboard controls all and without him we’d be lost! You can find Chris at InaRow! - Sean Hodge, Joel Falconer and Jeffrey Way – Editors Extraordinairre!
And of course the guys you are most familiar with, our Site Editors – who bravely face the trials of WordPress day in and day out to bring us our daily TUTS fix. Thanks guys!!! - And me
I don’t get to write tutorials anymore (though I keep hoping that’s going to change soon) but I did design this new theme – that is if you like it. If you don’t like it … then … erm … it was someone else pretending to be me …
6 Months and Rockin!
I looked at the calendar today and realised it’s been 6 months since NETTUTS started which is just amazing. Seems like it was only yesterday that Cyan was telling me off for launching a site without actually making a plan on how I would populate it :-) Congratulations to Jeffrey and all the team for getting this site really pumping. I have a feeling that NETTUTS is headed for a big future!
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Love the redesign
Looks great!
Ey nice to see the new theme over here. Great work ;)
love the new theme. Couldn’t wait when i saw it on psdtuts first
The new design looks good only wish you were not centering them.
Wonderful structure.. I like it!
btw, where is my gravatar? :)
Great work, congrats! :)
Looks brilliant, well done on a smashing design :) Great to see who the team is too!
Thanks guys!
@Pavel: Gravatars should still be working as usual … i think :-S
Also the little snippets next to the logo at the bottom are awesome ;) – One thing – it doesnt seem to remember your details on the comment form anymore… that’s a little annoying, but only a minor quirk :)
Thanks everybody. They’ve done a fantastic job with the redesign. I’m a very happy editor.
Oh wow, this redesign looks awesome. I’m going to use this as an inspiration…
As usual, love your work.
Very nice, a good improvement.
I love it! It’s like going into a super clean restroom at a fancy restaurant! You wish it were your bathroom but it’s not. So clean and visually appealing! I hope my analogy wasn’t to offensive but that’s the feeling I got! ;)
The new design is the business!
Great work!
And I´ll be finally writing some tutorials in spanish (I don´t trust my english that much) now that multiple languages are being added soon! =)
Nice redesign while keeping some of the original feel. However, one of my little gripes is that there’s no link to “Add your comment” and the Comments area on top of the single post page… wouldn’t be so hard to add? :-)
Nice look! Nice feeling!
An add comment link’s not a bad idea. Maybe we can bring through the comment count and link it up to jump down the page!
Hey can anyone see the Favicon? For some reason it’s not showing up on my computer… weird
oh wait … it’s showing up in Safari … that’s strange!
Dang. I love the new layout it actaually makes me smile. I even like how the comments are layed out now. :) Will there still be source downloads. Or will it turn into psdruts where all the tuts are plus and there’s no downloads
wTF. There’s no most talkitive users feed. Again. WTF
Awesome! Glad to see these updated too! I love this new template, so clean, crisp and amazing.
Great design.. as can be expected. :)
I JUST FOUND A BUG
All users who left the webiste field the comments empty get this “http://url(optional)/” set as thier URL.
FIX IT.
AWESOMENESS!!!
Is this quote box intentionally sitting a few pixels higher than the generic avatar to its left?
i read this blog since it went online. the old design was clean and nice. I thought it’s hard to top. But you made it :D
really nice work, Collis!
Awesome! It’s really hard to imagine that you guys are only six months old :) I love this site!
as expected. looks like the same as psdtuts.
Great work, congrats!
free vector http://zatstyles.blogspot.com/
nice job! loved the changes
I love the new comments design. Especially the input box. I wonder how many people will copy it…
brilliant!
As i said on PSDTuts, good work !
Fantastic work! :)
Make it good ;)
As always great job guys. The site looks fantastic.
Yep – expecting the change following the overhaul at PSDTuts.
Nice design Collis. By the way, I can see the favicon without a problem.
@Ben Griffiths – yep – the comment form is a bit annoying :)
Oops – sorry for the repeat comment.
I noticed that the Copyright & Usage footer section has a typo:
withoutattribution
should be
without attribution.
Already said this on PSDTuts but great redesign.
BTW what ever happened to “GraphicRiver” Collis?
Nice, only thing to do is change the layout of verctor tuts ;) and all of the tuts site are redesignd :D
greetz
http://www.opensourcehunter.com
Thank you for putting the search at the top!!!
It really looks nice but i dont like the color guys..
Absolutely love the new site!
Everything looks a lot more organized, and the additional info on the authors of post are great.
Congratulations!
Looks really nice! Especially liking the new footer/nav design! :)
Collis,
This design is amazing (revolutionary)! You’ve just set the bar in my mind for what a wordpress theme can do!