We Need an Awesome Weekly Writer

We Need an Awesome Weekly Writer

on May 1st 2010 with 32 comments

It’s that time again; I’m in need of a kick-ass – and consistent – author to help out on Nettuts once per week. Your duties will be to write an in-depth tutorial or article each week on anything ranging from PHP to JavaScript to CSS. Your pay will begin at $200 per article, resulting in roughly $800 per month. However, if you do a great job, you’ll also be invited to write a Premium tutorial every month, which would increase your pay to around $1100 – $1200 each month. Not bad for a once a week gig!

When I make these kinds of posts, I receive far too many one-sentence emails that don’t help. This time, to apply (and note that not many people do), I need you to email me with a few sentences about yourself, and a link to something that you’ve written on the web. It can be a link to your blog, or even a tutorial you’ve written for another web development tutorial site. If this is not included, your email will be deleted. Please email nettuts@tutsplus.com with this information. Thanks, everyone!

 
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  • Sergiu

    Hey Jeff,

    Good work specifying the terms. (sending at least some description and a link).
    Hope you’ll find a good writer (it’s for us, after all). Good luck!

  • http://twitter.com/nickplekhanov Nick Plekhanov

    Email you with all needed informatiom.

    Thanks for the opportunity!

  • Karl Ballard

    I wish to write a few tutorials but not week-in-week-out.

    If you have a template that I could write it on, that would be superb!

    Many thanks.

  • http://www.dans-blog.com Dan Walker

    I’ve dropped my application in, I’ve got 18 months free for my University gap year and I’d love to take up a position with Envato. The sooner you reply, the sooner my stomach butterflies will go away, look forward to hearing your reply!

  • http://xpressabhi.com abhishek

    Hi,
    Thanks for this opportunity to write on your blog. I am web developer and a blogger. I have a blog but I don’t write tutorials on my blog. Till now I used to read from another and your blog and enhanced my coding skills. I specially like jQuery tutorial. Now I will try to write some tutorial about it. If anything substantial will come out, I will mail you the article or send you a link of my blog.
    Thnaks

  • http://www.qwibbledesigns.co.uk Matt

    Best of luck finding an awesome writer Jeff, look forward to seeing the work of whoever you pick =)

  • A reader

    Offtopic, but, eh, Jeffrey, I pitched a tutorial idea via a special form a while ago, and still I’ve not received a reply. :(
    Is this because it’s rejected or haven’t you found time to read it?

    • Sebastian

      Because I mean. He’ll know who you are by “A reader”.

  • http://www.reindel.com Brian Reindel

    Hey Jeffrey,

    I find the submission process for Nettuts to be rather cumbersome in relationship to the pay, and it might be worth your while to reconsider how you accept and review submissions from authors. I’m not sure how other authors feel about it, but I find that I lose interest quickly when I’m the one who has to format the tutorial HTML, and create and provide images, and there is still a chance it could be rejected. Most authors, especially those that slant toward programming as opposed to design might commit to writing something if they weren’t tasked with that additional work. This might require an editorial review of ideas before the actual submission, and then building off a smaller talent pool where what gets sent to Nettuts is simply a PDF, plain text or rich text with code samples embedded. A working demo could be zipped. Just my two cents, and I’m sure some will feel differently.

    • A reader

      I’m definitely going with this. Tuts+ is about quality, but to get quality you need to give people the opportunity to submit their quality in an easier way.
      There should also be a page where people can request tutorials and articles. A potential writer can then pick a subject and write a tutorial or article about it. Something like the ‘Suggestions’ page, but it has to be put a bit more in the attention.

      • http://www.dans-blog.com Dan Walker

        Whilst I don’t mind the formatting or images etc, I enjoy finding my own images, I do like the idea of a suggestion box somewhere easy to view (on the front page sidebar or at least have a prominent link to a suggestion page). Perhaps it could be a tag cloud or something people could add to?

      • http://twitter.com/michalkozak Michal Kozak

        Agree. Idea box sounds like a really great idea. I think it would boost up the amount of incoming tutorials for review. Which is good, I’m guessing, since you sometimes have some troubles with finding/creating new content.

      • Nuruzzaman Sheikh

        Yeah I’m also totally agree with idea box.

    • http://arabianbazaar.com MySchizoBuddy

      If their is a ideas or suggestion box then you need a way to track which author has decided to write what article, so no two authors are doing the same thing.

    • http://rohansync.com Rohan

      Honestly, you could just email Jeffrey with your idea. If he thinks it will work, then you don’t need to worry about acceptance. As long as you write a competent tutorial, it will be accepted. I know that, because I’ve done it.

    • http://felixb.se Felix

      Idea box, yes please!

    • http://www.reindel.com Brian Reindel

      Early on, I think only in the beta of StackOverflow, there was a component to the site that allowed you to submit feature requests/bugs. The features that got the most votes were the ones that were implemented the quickest, since the most number of people desired them (i.e. — no under appreciated efforts). I feel as if some sort of similar ranking system or a voting paradigm would be beneficial for the “idea box”. There could also be two components to the idea submission, the first being a list of individuals who would be willing to write the tutorial, and the second would be those wanting to read the tutorial. Also, for those that suggest the ideas to be written about, if one is chosen and published, they could receive a reward, like a month subscription to the premium membership.

    • http://andrewburgess.ca Andrew Burgess

      It’s too much work to format a tutorial in HTML? It’s not really additional work; for the most part, you could write it in Markdown and convert to HTML; that’s what I do. And most of the time, your images are screenshots, so that’s hardly too much to ask. If you pitch a solid idea to Jeffrey before writing the entire tut, you won’t be wasting your time.

      • http://crispytech.com Saad Bassi

        Totally agreed with Andrew. If you have a good idea, then Jeffery will reply you so that you can start working on it. Idea Box was there. I don’t know why they are not using it. You can still see it if you go to http://tutsplus.com . There is a user feedback system.:)

  • Abbas

    Thanks for the great opputunity .
    Have send you the details by mail.

  • http://www.neilrpearce.co.uk neil

    Hi Jeff, email sent! Great opportunity and look forward to your reply?

  • http://blog.jesusyepes.com Jeus

    If i have a better english, i will at least try to aply. Are you considering writing spanish tutorials?

  • http://arabianbazaar.com MySchizoBuddy

    Can you release information about which topic is the most popular here. How many people view your Ruby articles compared to php articles. Or this this information totally confidential.

  • http://makedesignnotwar.com Brandon

    Heya Jeff,

    I’d love to join in, but I wouldn’t be able to start hammering out content until as late as July – you already have most of my credentials – I’d be particularly interested in covering WordPress topics and general web design and usability topics (relevant to the site’s core of course) – let’s chat over email if you’re interested :)

    Brandon

  • http://www.jordanwalker.net Jordan Walker

    Yep, don’t have too much time yet to devote.

  • http://http//twitter.com/bliitzi Deoxys

    Damn, I wish English was my native language ;-). Then I would give it a try.

  • http://thoughtsunlimited.net/blog Ashwin

    Just popped in my Email… I would look to scribe about WordPress, Web Development and Design…

    Nice Opportunity and look forward to your reply!

  • http://brockdesign.net Brock

    Wow, I really hope you can find a great writer. I would like to see more wordpress related content.

  • http://phpprogs.blogspot.com kuldeep singh

    Hii this is kuldeep singh here (PHP,Joomla,Social Engine,Facebook APP,Orkut APP,CakePHP, CodeIgnitor,Wordpress template, Opera widget developer and freelancer).

    I have a great tutorial about developing opera widgets. This tutorial will include developing opera widgets ,deploying those and using and submitting those on the web..

    This tutorial will be new topic in your website I hope everybody will enjoy it a lot and I also you will pay me double for that tutorial written by me.. there are some other tutorials and development techniques that i would love to share on nettuts..

    m a regular reader too of your website and a premium user too for your website nettuts. and i am daily writing awesome and perfect tutorials to start with new technologies onto my blog.try me..

    and one more thing I am having my own blog here phpprogs.blogspot.com and still I have not posted it onto my site because I want to publish it on your website..

  • Milan

    Well, you agreed to publish my article a long time ago, but obviously, I just lost my precious time on writing it. It never got published. You didn’t even bother to apologize.

    I didn’t wish to discourage all of you guys eager to write some cool stuff, so I apologize in advance if I’m being misunderstood.

  • http://variable3.com/blog/ Harsha M V

    Awesome. Will drop in my email soon. plan to write about cakePHP and few APIs

  • Anonymous

    It is funny how eager stupid people are today to have their article published on Nettuts for a lousy $50.00 bucks. Why would you want to go to all the trouble to build some one else’s business. These people are using you! You do all the work and they make the money. You will spend two days on writing, formatting, creating the images and the project files for a long, well written tutorial. For what? $50.00 bucks? Are you kidding me.

    Furthermore, Jeffrey Way doesn’t even have the common decency to write back a single sentence like “buzz off” even if he already approved the topic and told you to go ahead. It is the American way isn’t it Jeffrey? Not even a faint idea of common courtesy, decency or professional Etiquette. Everything is an ego trip!