We’ve been dugged, again, this time with Renyn’s latest tutorial: Jelly Remake. It received a lot of attention in the front pages on digg and del.icio.us. While many thought it was cool, some had questions on specific steps. Not to worry, your questions have reached the author. That’s the advantage of having a community like Tutorials 2.0 - while we’re learning new ideas from the tutorials here, future entries can benefit from your feedback.

Oh, allow me to introduce myself: I’m Meng To, I’ve been establishing and maintaining various communities since 2000. Here’s a little bit of history on the things I’ve done:

My passion for Art led me to create one called Shadowness, that’s where I was able to get in touch with a handful of amazing artists who’s just as keen as me to share their knowledge of Art. While starting off my career as a Web Designer, I founded a few other communities/sites before starting my own company.

I’ve helped launch CampusNetwork, a social-network for students founded by Adam Goldberg originally made to compete with Facebook at the time. We later abandoned the project then Adam joined Facebook as he and is founder, Mark, were good friends. As I mentioned on my previous blog entry, Adam now works for Google.

As for myself, here in Montreal, lot of things happened and I worked my way up until I had the opportunity to personally manage an ambitious project named Pixilis, a photos/videos sharing service. Unfortunately, due to conflicts of interest within the production team and the investors I later decided to leave the project after its release.

These days I just want to continue contributing to the Web with projects like Tutorials 2.0. It’s pretty exciting to be able to write a few tutorials/blogs about my ideas on graphics, design, CSS, AJAX, PHP, Hosting and even marketing. You can learn a little more from me by hitting the URL www.mengto.com.

I’m also extremely pleased with the idea of bringing together incredible artists who I got to know through other projects and who will help contribute fantastic new tutorials every day.
Recently I’ve joined the MyBlogLog community to keep track of blogging and social communities. It’s pretty cool so far where it gets us in touch with other places of similar interests. Take part in it and help us promote the goods, what could be helpful to you could be helpful to everyone!

Cheers,
Meng

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I spent the morning with a friend (Adam from Google) optimizing the Tutorials 2.0 site as we faced tremendous traffic, having made it to the top 10 stories on digg.com. We’ve had more traffic this morning than in the past week, that alone says a lot. Thanks to him, we got the site functioning like it should, again.

(On the side we were also watching Steve Jobs run his show about the new Apple iPhone :D.)

It’s been an unbelievable day so far, I’d also like to say thanks to Jason from empiredezign.com who’s been an incredible author for Tutorials 2.0. We’ll soon be having more fresh tutorials coming, great artists who’ll be contributing to the content of this site. Join in, you could be one of them. This is just the beginning.

But for now, cheers and thanks for the support!

UPDATE: It was short and sweet, but we’ve been on http://del.icio.us front page too!

Meng

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