would love to join psdtuts and nettuts but you will increase your customer base when you do something about having to have a credit card attached to your paypal account!

sorry tried the nice softly way before and no-one did anything!

Well, I wouldnt mind seeing more CSS tutorials, since I can’t code php, ruby, etc. I dunno, the CSS topic has been pretty much covered.

About a premium, I probably wouldn’t pay for premium any way cause I don’t have a job or anything like that, but I think tutorials that are exceptional or really detailed video tutorials would be good, but I wouldn’t do make downloads premium only.

Quick tips should stick around. Like you mentioned, I sometimes have to skip the tutorials ’cause I don’t have time to read the whole thing. But quick tips are short enough to squeeze in.

Jeffrey, I would definitely like to see more CSS and wordpress tuts. it’s never enough.

As for premium membership. This model works nice for PSDtuts IMO, but to use this model for tutorials in nettuts, I would except something exceptional, that hasn’t been covered before anywhere else (very tough!).
Magazine would be a nice option for nettuts Premium service.

@pavs – In regards to the premium members, I agree with you. That’s why I’m working hard to make sure that what we offer is stellar. Otherwise, it won’t be worth your $9.

How about a tutorial for ExpressionEngine?

I don’t know about a subscription program. Many have tried and failed, further it gave the community a sence of “The hell with them” and it frustrated me personally.

I have to say that $9 would have to bring me $9 worth of value each month and I am already getting that from your articles now. Question is how would you top that off? I guess I am answering a question with a question and its not what you’re expecting.

I love your jQuery tutorials. But I would love to see something like “Learning jQuery in 15 lessons” or something like that. I think there are a lot of CSS/XHTML guru’s out there who would love to incorporate jQuery, but just don’t know where to start.

I would write a weekly tutorial, but I do not know any flash or ruby on rails just php, wordpress (extensively), and CSS (extensively), and jquery.

Please don’t do what psdtuts did when they had premium thats why i don’t go to psdtuts anymore everything that was free got worse and worse. Then downloads started to dissapear PLEASE Don’t do that.But like what above have been saying more wp and css tuts

I definitely like the Quick Tips and think they should stay. Sometimes you just don’t have enough time to follow a full length tutorial.

As far as premium service, like you said, it will be harder to offer a product. I personally am intrigued by the t-shirt idea.

I feel the premium service should be for all of the TUTS sites. So 9 dollars for all the sites premium services. I cant see myself paying for PSDtuts and NETtuts. 10 for both makes sense.

just my 2 cents.

@Vin – This should help you get started. http://nettuts.com/javascript-ajax/15-resources-to-get-you-started-with-jquery-from-scratch/

What I Want?
I think we could use some Flash/AS3 tutorials and best-practices, more CSS, more(read not just jquery) JavaScript Framework tutorials and walk-throughs, Video Tutorials (maybe? maybe not…), etc.

Quick Tips?
I love ‘em. I think it never hurts to have short bursts of very useful info, and yes, I think as professionals, or those working their way to being professionals, we understand some things will be obvious or feel redundant at times, but it doesn’t mean its not new and useful to someone else.

Premium?
I’m not a huge fan of a division to premium services, imho, but I understand the ads don’t always pay the bills. I avoid PSDTuts Premium service, but I might consider a NetTuts premium service if it had the right stuff. What that right stuff is, is beyond me at the moment. Script Libraries? Downloadable Video Tutorials? Classes/Series on higher end projects (ie., developing an e-commerce site, creating a content management system from scratch, etc.) I think you put yourself in a tough spot doing this though as it’ll be harder to satisfy everyone since everyone wants to work on different platforms, and at different paces, but still want their money’s worth.

The key with offering premium services is not to diminish the benefit which non-members receive from this site. Like nTulip said, we’re already receiving very valuable tutorials, the $9 should be for something to round it off…

Maybe you could offer some discounts for premium service members. You could make a deal with lynda.com or o’rielly books … or sitepoint books! … For instance, you could offer premium members 10% off books / tutorials from those sites!

A forum???: I don’t know if it’s been considered yet but I think this site really needs a forum to host in-depth discussions, questioning sessions about tutorials and general discussions and queries about CSS/HTML/JS/PHP etc. etc… I really think a forum would benefit everyone!

I think the quick tips are good but it’s important to differentiate NETTUTS somehow – lots of blogs offer the odd quick tip – the ones offered here have to be interesting, innovative and if possible, ground-breaking!

As far as tutorials go I’d like to see a couple of general usability/accessibility as well as semantics and web standards. I’d really appreciate a well-written article from a professional on one of these topics!

Maybe tutorials for coding stuff for other websites (i.e. blogger templates, wp templates, freewebs easybuilder templates, etc).

@James – Yeah, I completely agree with the Forum comment. NETTUTS 100% needs it. I’ll take with the management about that. It wouldn’t be too difficult to set up.

I would like to see more tutorials on java script but that is because I am getting more into as of late. I also would like to see more on Wordpress and other CMS but also a starter section on back end tutorials. For the premium package, a yes on video tutorials. I am not sure about subscription to a magazine, I like how all your stuff is online, I can access it anywhere i am at. I will do more thinking on this as this was just off top of my head. I also would like to see some things on silver light. I do not use it but am curious.

I second the request for Expression Engine tutorials.

I’d love to see more tutorials on Ruby and back end development. I’m trying to cross over from just a designer into a developer/designer.

As far as a membership goes, I’d offer some sort of one on one support service. So people can get help with their projects, and get feedback for ideas.

Its really nice that all your site give so much to us, we are very thankful.
but you never cover anything about ASP.NET / Atlas / SilverLight.

I think all your sites are above all the sites which provide tutorial and there is a big different in quality your sites provide, i know there are same number of programmer as of PHP. even if you give 1% of your time to ASP.net

People who work in dotnet will learn lot from your work. please consider it, sometime in future.

thanks

Thinking on it, one thing you could offer for Premium is downloadable effects. A CSS Framework (the devil, I know), a Javascript effect (FancyBox charges 30-odd dollars for commercial use), an in-depth plug-in for Wordpress, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, etc.

It’s nice to release smaller effects and demo’s, but us developers sometimes create larger effects, that would take a while to explain, so you can release the Source for someone to read through, and use in commercial projects?

*shrug*

I’d like to see some more PHP myself. I’m having hard time finding some good up to date tutorials for it, and I think it have been limited on NETTUS too.
F.x I’m currently looking for a way to make a Php gallery with some upload/edit/delete functions, which I would gladly pay the 9$ to learn, if that was the case.

Other than that, +1 on the quick tips and forum, as well. Looking forward to the changes

Nettuts has covered some great topics and the quality of each tutorial is the sticking point for me. Some quick tips don’t cut it for me because they cover the kind of stuff that a quick Google will answer. I want tutorials which give me more advanced tips explained in a clear and concise way.

Personally I think that Nettuts should focus on just a few areas of web development. Covering PHP, ruby, python, perl and ASP is way to much for anyone to take in. Better to have quality articles on a narrow range of topics. Just concentrating on CSS, HTML, PHP, MYSQL, WordPress and JQuery would be great for me.

I would like some tutorials on how to develop websites at a more advanced level and how to combine code successfully. Sites like http://www.w3schools.com may cover every single HTML element, CSS selector and PHP function but aren’t of much use on their own. The best web tutorial I have found so far is http://www.phpwebcommerce.com/

It covers how to create a web commerce site and covers every step of creating an e-commerce site from scratch. While the outcome is pretty useless the tutorial clearly shows how to lay out a database, file structure, sessions and user interface. This is the level of tutorial I expect form Nettuts.

Now that i have had some time to think it over i would LOVE a shirt. Also its good advertising for nettuts. Make it nettuts colors

Way cool

I like the idea of CodeIgniter/CakePHP tutorials. These tools can make developing some smaller web apps a little easier for the average developer.

On the note of Flash/Actionscript tutorials, it’s difficult to do that and keep the quality up. 90% of Flash developers are self taught by sites like FlashKit and Pixel2Life, which offer sub-par tutorials at best. All of these tutorials are full of deprecated, or just plain wrong code/logic.

Someone would have to make sure that the accepted Flash tutorials were solid tutorials that don’t teach any sort of bad practices or warped logic.

That said, tutorials on programming basics would be useful to all those designers who are stuck with css/html because they don’t get the logic behind development. Teach the logic and the syntax comes naturally after that, right?

Another Flash related avenue to explore would be the math behind animations. Most people think they can grab the tween tool and do all the cool things they see on websites. That’s rarely the case though. Almost all of it is math, and not the easy stuff either.

My 2 cents…

For a premium service, perhaps have a few series of tutorials – new parts twice a week – all coming to a final, much bigger project? There have been a few ideas I’ve had for a tutorial, but simply felt in order to cover it in as much detail as I’d have liked, it would need to be in multiple parts. Just a thought.

I would love to be a staff/frequent writer, and actually enjoy writing tutorials for the community. However, my strong points lie in XHTML, CSS, WordPress & other CMS’s with a bit of jQuery and PHP/SQL combo. I don’t know anything enough to write tutorials for other languages.
Although I would love to see some Ruby and ASP.NET tutorials to try and extend the area of topics covered by the site.

And about Flash – doesn’t Collis have plans for a flash tutorials site? (FLATUTS?) Would that work well with another site covering it?

From what James said, I also feel a forum would be a MUST for the site.

One more thing: a few more PSD-to-HTML tutorials for beginners I’m sure would be great additions to attract more people just getting started in design.

@Sean McArther – I love your idea. We should get a team together and develop a killer jQuery app and brand it as NETTUTS-APPS or something like that… Great idea!

I have an idea for another tut site: GIMPTUTS for Gimp, and VIDTUTS for video editing / production tutorials.

@Dan Harper: Yeah, I think Collis is planning FLATUTS…I think he announced purchasing the domain a while ago.

More tutorials for entry level people would be good. It should help expand the user base of nettuts too. Basic HTML tutorials should be covered as well. There’s a lot of stuff that even jr. level web developers would take for granted that a designer would find a huge barrier.

Also, I’m all for the quick tips and I like the idea of a forum too.

TUTS that I would fancy seeing:
1. ExpressionEngine
2. MooTools
3. Scriptilicious
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RE: Premium account incentives;

Like other’s have posted, I am not a huge fan of the paysite format. But, if it is required, I would expect to see the items I listed below. However, just because I would expect to see those items does not mean I would sign up. :/

1. Downloadable goods (templates/fonts/etc)
2. Downloadable tuts
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I know ASP.NET from work. It seems like people rarely like .NET unless that’s all they do. I, on the other hand, am technology agnostic. So, if you’re looking for some .NET stuff, I can possibly contribute from time-to-time (or at least try to).

More Mootools and Jquery, like total beginner tuts. thanks.

As someone has already pointed out the NETTUTS tutorials may be too advanced, at least they are for me. Some tutorials covering the fundamentals of each programming language would be much appreciated.

However my humble opinion is you’re trying to cover too much stuff in just one place. You could split NETTUTS up in three parts: HTML/CSS/jQuery tutorials (for web designers), PHP/ASP/Ruby/ecc. tutorials (for programmers), FLASH tutorials (well I think Flash deserves its own site, don’t you?). Or maybe you could split it in NETTUTS/beginners and NETTUTS/advanced. Just my idea.

Quick tips are fine by me as they can serve as reminders.

And one last thing that has totally nothing to do with this, but I would LOVE to see a tutorial site for video editing (I’m so into After Effects right now!!).

I like the Quick Tips…please keep them around.

Just to add to my last post: I love the quick tips.

Just my 10 cents. I would like to see more CSS and WordPress coverage. What ever happened to the Rockstar Wordpresser book? It seems like it has been 5 or 6 months ago this was mentioned and then nothing. What’s going on with this?

Best regards,
ChrisS

I love the quicktips.. they should stay.

I would love to see more wordpress tutorials covering topics like custom fields and integration of jquery or mootools to create useful widgets for wordpress

Flash tutorials incorporating XML to create navigation menus and photo galleries both for beginners and advanced users

keep up the great work!

@Chris – They’re hard at work on the book with Harley. Expect to receive some news on the book in the next month or so.

@Chris From Collis’ Twitter a few days ago: “recently found a coauthor to help finish the book named Harley Alexander, so not long to go now!”

Like you said in your post, you cover Wordpress and JQuery a lot. Why not Joomla! or other CMS’s?

I sent in a Freelancing article I wrote in my spare time. I think I will go ahead and apply to this!

Keep the quick tips

One thing about the plus subscription – would there be a discount for a “pay for a year at once” option? Also, $9 every month seems quite a lot when the content on here is already pretty great – and especially so when you work out to paying over $100 per year – would you really be able to make it that worth while? That’s a similar price to buying a new web dev book every month, which would have masses more content…

Sorry, the above was meant to read “every other month”

While your looking at future plans, would you consider an edit button?

The current tutorials are fine (i a fact, they are what mkes this site great in the first place)
I love the quick tips, and wouldn’t mind seeing more wordpress tuts (because it’s so popular and so fast-evolving, and has endless possibilities).

For the Plus membership i shouldn’t make special T-shirts or whatever, people want tuts !
so for the plus membership, bring plus tuts !, more advanced, and on more advanced languages than html (for example ruby) besides, only people seriously busy with web development and people truly looking to find out the latest techniques (web designers, free-lancers,…pro’s) are the ones that would pay 9/month for your knowledge, not the kid that thinks wants to make a neat-o website for his world-of-warcraft team…
well that’s what i think…
ps: sorry for my bad english, i’m dutch.

like to see more frameworks and libraries covered – like Ruby(what is that), Drupal, MooTools also I think the quick tip should keep going.

@DH Thanks I look forward to it.

I’m not sure if this would be suitable for this site or not but I was thinking a tutorial for making a google or windows sidebar gadget would be good.

I like the quick tips, I think they should stay. As long as they don’t stop the in depth tutorials from coming, I can’t see any harm in them.

Personally I would like to see less Wordpress and CSS (the web is absolutely overloaded with these tutorials which can be learned in a weekend and mastered in a month) as I see that as hacking more than actual development. What about frameworks? Frameworks are the future. No one is coding absolutely from scratch anymore. I could provide Code Igniter tutorials, but would also like to see what other frameworks can do as well. I was very excited about Nettuts when it launched but haven’t seen anything very compelling as most of the tutorials are geared towards absolute beginners. How ’bout some more advanced things like OOP, Web services like AWS and API’s. Good performance and security tutorials are rare in contrast to all the simple stuff. I would only pay for tutorials that help me make more money as a developer. I pay $250/yr for a VTC membership and it’s absolutely priceless, I can learn virtually anything I want. At $9 a month ($108/yr) you’d have to provide serious value that can’t be Googled or found in documentation. I may be outside the target market as I consider myself an advanced developer but when you say web development, I don’t think Wordpress, CSS and XHTML, I think Ruby, PHP, MySQL, AJAX, .Net(yuck), Django, etc. The J-query stuff has been great but I’ve already invested time and money into Prototype and Scriptaculous and would love to see more on those libraries. My advice is to think about what you had to learn by old fashioned research because the tutorials just weren’t available. Quicktips are great, maybe you could pick obscure PHP functions that are lessor known but very useful and provide some quick examples of practical uses. Classes would be a valuable commodity for pro accounts but they’d have to be iron clad with great APIs and portability. Serious developers are always looking to improve their bag of tricks but the last thing the web needs is another CSS/XHTML tutorial site. No offense to the beginners, but that stuff is simple and the web is saturated with it. I don’t mean to be overcritical but you asked our opinions and I’m very opinionated. It’s simple:

if($content == “quality”)
{
$readership = “growing”;
}
else
{
$readership = “waning”;
}

Yeah, the Quick Tips have been cool so far. I find that sort of factoid a nice way to build my toolbox.

And personally, I’d love to see some intro to Javascript topics.

I would love to see some Expression Engine tutorials!!!

How about a global tuts membership for a little more higher fee?

In my opinion Flash is a whole different TUTS site than NETTUTS, I would prefer to see more ruby tutorials now that big sites like Twitter are starting to use it.

I’m guessing there are a lot of people here (like myself) who are xhtml/css people and are looking to learn PHP/MySQL and Javascript. I like the tutorials the help transition the web designer into the web developer.

I would LOVE to see case studies of complex web sites. Or, I’d love to see a step-by-step build that includes everything one might learn here: valid xhtml/css layout with javascript enhancements, a CMS and some PHP/MySQL back end.

One thing I never see anywhere is tutorials on server management. I would love to read about Apache administration…ESPECIALLY security related tuts.

Finally, I’d like to third or fourth the FORUM suggestion. Tutorials are great, but I find learning from discussions is even more helpful.

Great site as it stands, though. Definitely one of my favorites.

Oh! And e-commerce. I don’t know where to start when trying to add a shopping cart to an existing website. I’ve used pre-built template based services, but how would one add “add to cart” type functionality to an existing design?

Video tutorials would be great! I’d be interested to see a series of tutorials on jQuery, working from the basics up.

I love the PHP learning regimen, that is something hard to come by and I am really looking forward to that, I am a bit disappointed that round 2 hasn’t come along yet, but I think that is a great tutorial for a site like this especially for someone like me who is eager to learn PHP.

Flash is another biggie for me, especially with ActionScript, I think I read somewhere that FlaTuts was under construction? I would LOVE to see a site like that within the TUTS family, I think a lot of people out there are like me who really love the results you can get with Flash but are a bit intimidated by the construction and ActionScript that goes behind them, and for me a good AS resource has been hard to come by, so a very well put together FLA site would be great in my opinion.

Beyond that I think you guys are doing a great job, I would also suggest more training regimens like the PHP one, for those of us who are in the beginning phases of learning development, with so many different things out there, it can get a bit overwhelming, at least to me.

Hope this helps you out in some way, thank you for all the great sites.

1 – Keep it free for us readers, or as free as possible please !!

2 – I would reallllllllllly like if you can do some tutorials on completing a web site… I am talking here of taking our design, puting them in xhtml/css AND creating the template file that will drive all our site’s page !!!

3 – I like your job.

Also, I would recommend some beginner tutorials on Ruby on Rails.

New developers and designers are quick to learn PHP but RoR has yet to see a boom in popularity. Most new developers will see that 37signals is making some great stuff with it and would probably like to know how to do the same. (I am one of them)

CakePHP

it’s a piece of cake to bake a pretty cake.

@benjo we don’t need downladable goods. there are other places for that. this is a tuts site. there should be quality tutorials here.

I’d like to see more advanced PHP tutorials. Making things look nice with jQuery is all good but it’s really of no use if you don’t know how to create sites that utilize databases, template engines, etc.

Two things come to mind. First, as web designers we are responsible for finding solutions to design and usability problems. Perhaps a client that wants 20 large photos of Rover on the same page, or a client that wants 50 pages but has no clue how to organize all the information. I would like to see articles on solving design and usability problems.

Secondly, how about some articles that tackle developing a site from finding inspiration through adding the final touches and code cleanup. Perhaps use an old site designed with nested tables and image slices and show a step by step overhaul.

Keep up the good work.

We’re tired of the “premium” tutorials, they’re all private if you dont know sometimes its hard to pay 9 dollars i know its nothing but 9 dollars can be something more important for the family otr the house that a website…

now, in psdtuts, netuts, and vectortuts, the tutorials are now private the newest tuorial you put in psdtuts is private until you sign up, who will be intesrested in a private tutorial?

sorry, but a website that teaches private stuff is not a good option…

now you’re just like or pay the 9 dollars or you dont get nothing from us!!

thats kind of stu…

Think about it…

I really like to see more professional flash tut here. Why don’t you guys make another tut site for flash? e.g. flashtuts.com

First off, great site. Definitely keep the constant updates coming.

I would recommend adding a “Experience Level” to each tutorial. Sometimes I’ll get really excited about an article, only to find that it’s aimed at someone with a very low experience level. Also from the comments, it seems like the tutorials aren’t advanced enough for experienced users, and are too advanced for beginners.

A lot of the Wordpress/jQuery tutorials don’t seem to be tutorials as much as really well documented code. I think the more generic, the better.

And lastly, I think there should be some design tutorials, as well as some more higher concept tutorials (for example an article about MVC, or CSS best practices, etc).

I’ve had a few people show me sites they’ve done, and I’ve recognized the effects from here (mostly the jQuery stuff, in my opinion). It seems that people are copying and pasting code rather than truly learning. So rather than a tutorial telling people how to make something specific, what about an indepth tutorial about what you can do with the “Traversing” functions in jQuery, etc…

Either way, great work so far- keep it up!

ASP.NET tutorials would really be great. ASP.NET is really easy to get into and rapidly start developing applications in. Plus Microsoft has done a great job by releasing free express editions of their IDE to get you started with .NET programming. I would love to do a few starter tutorials for ASP.NET if required.

A premium paid membership site will not induce me to part with my cash although a monthly quality video tutorial (a la Justin at Cartoon Smart) would.

The web is flooded with wordpress and css tutorials, how about covering some of the other cms’s? More php and javascript would be appreciated and if you do build a forum, that would make a great tutorial. bbpress?

The quick tips is a nice idea but the quality so far has been poor. Two of them teaching non validating code and a couple so basic as to be insulting. Css reset and multiple selectors? Come on!

I’m with Dayton Nolan on this, plus I also mentioned it earlier this week:

The other TUT sites are all pushing out high experience level tutorials. It’s what makes them stand out from the crowd. This site has also done some great tutorials, but is lagging behind it’s brethren in my opinion.

First of all, you’ll never please the whole crowd – so my advice would be to stop doing tutorials for specific libraries unless you can do the tutorial and then translate it to a couple of libraries to please most viewers.
For example: a gallery script in javascript and then have an example of how to work it for scriptaculous, jQuery and Mootools. If you don’t do that, most viewers are immediately put off it I reckon, as most experienced coders already have a favorite library and won’t be budged by one tutorial.

HTML/CSS? Over done and way too simple, go search google and you’ll find anything you want. Unless it is something brand new, leave it out of NETTUTS—again, I feel you should be aiming at a higher level.

My thoughts on what you are aiming at:

Unique, high-level and versatile tutorials that lead to the viewer being able to understand the subject matter and accurately reproduce the example—which should be cross-browser compliant and accessible, as for full time developers, those two are now bread and butter requirements for any project.

Firstly, I think that nettuts is a great site. I’ve learned a thing or two here.

We’ve certainly had an emphasis thus far on Wordpress and jQuery. Nothing too wrong with that – they’re popular and there are lots of people who crave information on them, but a bit more variety is certainly wanting.

Definitely keep the tips – a post doesn’t have to be long to be useful, and hey – like @Paul said, you can never please the whole crowd at once. Some tutorials have been of no interest to me, and others have taught me nothing, but that’s the way it goes.

In some ways, I believe that the guys over at vectortuts and psdtuts have an easier time of delivering great content. I say that because it’s quite hard to find decent photoshop/illustrator tutorials on the internet, and those sites that provide tutorials are often plagued with adverts and popups.

Nettuts is a great little site, and I hope it continues to flourish.

My suggestions:

1) CMS tutorials such as Expression Engine.
2) ASP.NET – see how that goes down with people, though I’d be interested to know how many of your readers would show an interest in that one.
3) General PHP security
4) Using Python for web development.
5) Not too keen on a premium service.

@Shane – I agree with your remark about PSDtuts and vectorTUTS. The problem is that there already is a lot of great webdev content out there… NETTUTS has to somehow differntiate itself, either by offering different content, more in-depth content or something like the premium service… Otherwise we’ll just end up as another fish in the pond!

I’d like to see more Ruby and more Perl, there are quite a few very useful frameworks for both that are worth covering. I don’t see the point in covering Flash much, it’s been ages since I’ve seen much of interest come from Flash, it’s become a lot less useful with current browsers.

Would like some tuts on the Zend Framework!

i agree with james…nettuts needs more in-depth content and less of those little tips that we all know and have read on many sites before…

I personally find the quick tips a GREAT idea.
I would love it, considering how i don’t really have much time to read long tutorials.
Of course, long tutorials are appreciated too as they are much more informative.

On the other hand, i don’t prefer the idea of a premium service, as i myself am not earning money yet.

Yours Sincerely,
-Kay Hwee

I think that you should have video tuts for premium but not restrict any of the other tuts. You shouldn’t make downloads or any of the tuts that you currently have premium only.

I would like to see more CSS and full site creation (ie. PSD to (X)HTML + CSS).

No quick tips however make some of the tuts bigger (ie full site creation tuts)

I greatly enjoy your site but would never pay $9/month for material that I honestly could find elsewhere.

Would love to see Ruby on Rails tutorials. I would also like to see a more comprehensive tutorial on how to design and code a wordpress theme. This doesn’t have to include the photoshop part, but merely how to slice the design and put it together as a custom wordpress theme. Although, the photoshop design could be part of the tutorial on psdtuts.com.

There is no way that you can offer premium content which can’t be found elsewhere — in some form — on the net. And there’s just no way I’m paying $9 month.

Usability and and UI at the developer level would be great and well needed in the community.

I’d like to see more Wordpress tutorials. You already have some great ones, but I’d like to see more.
Thank you for great content.

Looking at the replies you can already tell your users have varying degrees of skill – beginner to expert. I’m more of a print designer (yeah we’re still out there) and consider myself more on the entry level side but I appreciate all the tutorials you publish on NETTUTS ’cause it gives me something to look forward to understanding and achieving.

What I’d pay $9 a month for, no committment. Building a complete CMS, and I’m not talking about intergration of WordPress. Most of the books and tutorials out there teach you, but I’m yet to find one that incorporates design and programming, like so many HTML/CSS tutorials do.

I say keep the Quick Tips for sure! They’ve been really helpful… and quick.

I’d definitely like too see javascript tuts that do not use frameworks (Jquery, mootools etc) and also CSS and ASP.NET.

Yeah keep them quick tips coming.

i love the quick tips, can we keep them about?

What I want:

PHP & PHP/MySQL tuts. I’m still suprised how few there are considering how popular the language is. I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m not going to use a CMS until I know how to make my own. I’m trying to teach myself via shotty tutorials on other sites and messing around with the TBSource code.

Quick Tips:

<3. Need I say more?

Premium service:

I’m torn on this. I strongly dislike monthy fees, but at the same time I don’t feel I would be let down, content wise. With that said, the content would have to be excellent- much better than it already is- for me to dish out money every month.

I would also like to +1 for the global membership thing. Maybe $9/site or 15 for two, etc. I don’t know, that’s your job..!

For those saying all Tuts should be focused at a higher level, I have to respectfully disagree, there are beginners (like myself) who visit this site in the same way that mediocre to advanced developers do, and for that reason I think that tutorials should cater to users of all skill levels.

That sounds great!

I don’t mind having:

1) more CMS tutorials (you already have tutorial about how to add cushyCMS in it, I’m not exactly sure what’s the limitation are but what about try different CMS?)

2) more css (for buttons, layouts, forms, etc.)

3) misc such as dead state button, contact form, etc.

4) how to add shopping cart (I assumed paypal is the easiest way to do it??)

5) not too sure about wordpress tuts (not too fond of it)

6) keep the tips and the tuts every morning!! Most important of all!!!!

I’ve been in the web design and development biz for 10+ yrs now, and am always learning something new.

I love the quick tips and tuts. I don’t care much for video tutorials, I prefer to be able to sit back look at the code and go, “OK, I see it now.” In fact I think I’ve ever only watched 1 video tutorial.

It would take something pretty amazing to get me to pay for a premium service. A really good mag ‘might’ do it, but at a subscription rate of $108/yr it would have to be an astoundingly amazing mag.

I’d love to see a tut on how to add commenting to a site (not WP or any other blog software where it’s a feature you can enable or easily add-on). I have a client that wants commenting but can’t find much for a beginning coder to be able to accomplish it.

I second an article on adding a shopping cart would be great too, as well as securing a page for cc info or something like that.

If you need CSS articles I’d be up for writing some, but it looks like you’ve already got it covered.

Thanks for the great site, I especially love the tips as they are easy to make time for.

I would like to see Drupal tuts and overviews and tutorials on the PHP 5 frameworks, in particular Qcodo and Kohana.

I think you should go for an all out “Tut’s” Premium Membership. I’m predominately a print designer, but I love learning about web related info. I can’t justify paying $10 for 2 different tuts.

I like the Quick tips as well. It’s like a “cookie” a tasty treat worth of learning.

Thanks for all the great articles. It has been very helpful.

I think that having more articles on php(OBO Programming) in generall, and more about developing your own stuff rather then to use other stuff. And sure more jquery / other ajax stuff.

Some Joomla Tuts would be great!

Ive seen basic PHP, nothing mind blowing or exciting with PHP yet.

I would like to see some tutorials on how to make/implement flash menus similar to the starcraft2/Diablo 3 websites.

(off topic, but may we see a flashtuts.com soon?)

Though it has already been stated numerous times, NETTUTS is a great site with some excellent tutorial and community thus far.

As well everyone is saying there are too many jQuery, CSS, and Wordpress tutorials. Yes, those are obviously the categories most the tutorials fall into, but they are just as much part of the web as anything else. I would not want to see the tutorials on these subjects start to disappear simply to make room for tutorials of another kind.

As far as branching out into other areas of the web. PHP, Ruby on Rails, Adobe Flash, and ASP.net are still definitely areas which need to be covered. All of which are very popular mediums for which to make a website. Apart from coding/scripting languages there are other parts of the web that could easily fall under this site’s range of tutorials such as: SEO marketing, user experience, and accessibility.

With that being said each tutorial shouldn’t be created to please everyone because it never will. So more advanced level tutorials and even step-by-step per tutorial should definitely be something to look into. Although, if there hasn’t been much popularity in the category being written for I would advise the author to provide links and resources for those reading it. Therefore, even if the tutorials more difficult on an opinion-based level, any reader viewing the topic would easily have ways to understand what’s being said.

For the quick tips and tutorials I say keep those alive for sure, they are extremely helpful and I can’t see any reason not to keep them coming.

And lastly, membership. If and when there is a membership fee implemented into NETTUTS It would certainly have to provide some really quality content or resources that simply can’t just be found by Googling. For example: If you where creating a tutorial on how to develop a website from PSD to XHTML/CSS and then integrating it in Wordpress. Providing the Wordpress theme along with the source code once completed would be something worth 9 bucks.

All-in-all NETTUTS is a great site with some excellent resources. I can’t wait to see what instore for it over the net couple of months.

I would personally pay $9 a month for a premium service. I don’t subscribe to many premium sites, but I like Nettuts a lot and would want to support it.

I’m more of a usability, SEO and web copy writer kinda web designer, so Nettuts helps me out a lot on the technical side of things:) Quick tips must stay and there should be a couple of tuts on “White Hat” SEO, usability, content quality etc… as well as tutorials on “short cut” web stuff for us non programmers.

Books that are swell: “Don’t Make Me Think” by Steve Krug and “Hot Text – Web Writing That Works” by Jonathan and Lisa Price.

Thanks for the great site, guys!

My vote to keep Quick Tips

More wordpress tutorials please. They help me the most.

Definitely keep quick tips. Both choice and variety are good things, so keep ‘em coming!

Also – with quick tips, often they’re something small that would otherwise not be covered, and also not often searched out (or even covered) on sites.

I know some people are sick of the WordPress coverage on this site but I would love to see a tutorial series that runs through the process of creating a WP Template from scratch.

Advanced CSS is always good, there’s too much of the same thing out there and far too much of it is really basic beginner stuff. There’s nothing wrong with that but some high brow stuff would keep the progression goin.

I’ve been a big fan of these sites for what feels like a long time, my skill set has really improved in the short space of time I’ve migrated here from PSDTUTs. I really appreciate the work that goes into this little empire and it’s the best place for fresh tutorials that are relevent to my job.

Thanks

You guys are already off to a great start and I’d love to see more jQuery tutorials. Create a jQuery plugins database with user reviews. Maybe a snippets database too!

Here’s some more ideas for tutorials/quick tips…

1) IE6/IE7 CSS Bugs
2) Firebug/Debugging Tips
3) Usability Tips
4) Web 2.0 Application Case Studies w/ Implementations, Examples
5) CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Zend (Saw this mentioned earlier, good idea! Also comparing the PHP frameworks)
6) CSS Frameworks
7) ExtJS, YUI, Mootools

If you’re going to do a premium service I’d probably expect to see videos of creating a complete website/web application.

Hope this helps!

I don’t know if anyone else noticed, but it looks to me like Collis is planning a global membership, like what has been suggested above.

http://tutsplus.com/

TutsPlus.. a system that lets you gain ‘plus’ features to all the TUTS family of sites? Sounds like it’s coming.

–Chad

Personally, I’d like to see some means of open communication like this (perhaps forums as suggested) where users can post what it is they’re interested in learning/seeing more often… I’d love to put together more Mootools tutorials that are considerably more advanced (or straight forward for that matter) but at the same time creating something different. We see a lot of the same sort of tasks being accomplished with jQuery all the time.

Something besides Wordpress! I’ve been spending what little free time I have exploring ExpressionEngine more, but I’d love to see some tutorials from “the pros” on other CMS.

I like the idea of video based tutorials, it would definitely speed things up (I think?) for the tutorial writer, as you can communicate a lot more information and it gives people the opportunity to see a developer working in their environment… everyone’s always asking about process, and work flow, and I think that would really show through here. I don’t know what sort of services are available (and affordable) for hosting streaming video that NETTUTS could look into, but it definitely seems worth the effort.

Oh my lord! You got quite a feedback there?! Cool.

I’d just like to say, that I’m not really a developer- more a designer.
And more than half the times I visit this site- I leave just as fast again, cause the topics are way too advanced!

I think more CSS-tuts and perhaps articles, that explains what jquery and Ruby etc. are? And what they do?
I’d like simple but valurable framworks, that are easy to implement on my own website to give it a wow-effect.
Acctually- I wold pay to subscribe- if I got finished -ready to put on my own site codes. And the for free could just contain the tutorials.
This way you pay to get it easy and quick. And you visit the site for free to just learn how to do it yourself..

How about that?

Hey guys! Re the book questions (only one or 2 I think) – Collis and I are working hard to get it finished – I assure you my part is very nearly finished. As I’ve taken time of the tutorials, I’ll be coming back into the article side of things with a rather large article – some cool jQuery integrated with WordPress; completely rethinking how a Blog is – actually taking a different medium and applying it to a Blog.

As others have stated, I think video tutorials would be a great addition. They allow the user to take the whole tutorial in faster and in a more visual sense then just screenshots here and there as in written tutorials. Allowing video tutorial submissions would really boost my interest in both writing and reading tutorials on this site!

As for content, I thnk its safe to say not everyone wants the same thing. The topic covered by this site is so wide that it would be impossible to cover all the areas not to mention skill levels. I find the more topics covered the more interested I am. I am always searching for new and unique ways of acomplishing things dealing in web development. The more unique the tutorials are the better!

Anyways, just my thoughts.

Keep quick tips and more JS tutorials please!

Hey!! great site and awsome tuts, but could you write more on ruby and also actionscript/flex? thanks very much:)

I’m enjoying the Quick Tip series; if anything I’d want to see you expand that series even more. Like quick little PHP scripts, Flash tips, etc. Thus far it seems to be CSS-Oriented.

I’m also eagerly awaiting your next PHP guide. I work primarily in front-end PHP design with a bit of custom CMS-writing, but am by no means a competent PHP programmer, so I’m always excited to see new “from the beginning” tutorials.

Another thing (which may be mentioned in posts above mine) that I’d like to see is some tutorials on the use of regular expressions. They are highly useful in any scripting language; and from my experience not so well understood.

Personally, I am trying to make the jump from designer to developer/designer. I have a strong interest in css, php, cms flash and flex. I love the tutorials for what they show but information on what a particular mark up can do would be helpful. I vote yes for the quick tips. More tutorials on drupal and joomla. Projects on a larger scale like social sites, application building with explanations supporting your choices. Screen casts work well an an alternative to typing every step in a post.

I love the format: morning article and quick tip in the evening.
I am hugely supportive of articles related to Drupal and Ruby.
There are many topics not fully covered in the Drupal community and
i think the format you present here for tutorials is brilliant.

I would like more HTML/CSS tutorials, and some more PHP.
Flash would be interesting.

Will we be getting those shirts soon?

Both long tuts and quick tips are great—some of the longer tutorials are too exhaustive, so the Quick Tips are easily digestible, which I’m grateful for—and count me in for anything and everything WordPress.

Your WordPress tutorials have gone far beyond a lot of the ultra-basic ones I see on many sites; very meaty.

The jQuery stuff is awesome; I haven’t yet gotten into much else (like Ruby), so I’m more in the beginners’ ranks. But lovin’ it – this site totally rocks.

I don’t think you guys have had enough PHP tutorials, 90% of the posts are on Javascript and Ajax.

Something that would kick my ass is if you guys made a link roundup of great PHP tutorials or make some. (the only php tutorial I saw was the one on the guy that wanted to learn PHP and make it a group effort).

Other than that you guys are doing great, I really like this site. Unlike other tutorials sites your tutorials are quality and work, and you are consistent with your posts.

I wish you guys the best!

Some more CMS tuts besides Wordpress would be great.
Especially the design parts, as creating really stylish themes for
joomla or drupal. Oh, and the quick tips are just great.
Keep them!

CodeIgniter and ExpressionEngine would be tops on my list to add. Also, keep the JS library tutorials coming (jquery, extjs, mootools, etc.). I also would be interested in video tutorials but they’d have to be of the quality that lynda.com provides for me to pay any type of fee.

I agree that there needs to be a forum too.

I would love to see some tutorials on Developing Adobe Air Desktop Applications. ^^

Hard to add anything useful to the above list, so I’ll just keep it short. I’d love to see more accessibility and usability tutorials here, and things like ‘AJAX, from A to X – a comprehensive beginners guide’. That’s because I love the things AJAX can do, but I’m not really into XML, DOM, … yet, but I’d love to see the magic happen.

As for the question about a premium section: I wouldn’t pay for it. For one, if I don’t find it here, I’ll most likely find it somewhere else (only not that well written), and I believe it would be very hard to satisfy everyone. But that has been established, when I read the other comments.

I’d like to see a guide about using subversion in a web workflow. There seems to be little out there describing how to set it up, and how to use it, specifically for web development. And now that Coda has introduced subversion support – it would be a good time for a good introduction.

Seriously I wnat to say something. i and all of my friends are not much capable of spend $10 per month. psdtuts.com has done this and we are damaged in knoledge. please spread knoledge as free as possible otherwise people like us bellow middle class families never get updated. please dont make it a $ game.

please reply!

I would love to see tutorials on PHP, CSS etc that are definately not covered anywhere else on any other sites, if theres something that no one else has provided yet then i would like to see it here.