Tutorials 2.0 » Blog http://tutorials20.com Learn Photoshop, Graphics Design, 3D, Animation, Photography and more Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:54:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Tutorial Site of the Week on Pixel2Life http://tutorials20.com/blog/tutorial-site-of-the-week-on-pixel2lifecom/ http://tutorials20.com/blog/tutorial-site-of-the-week-on-pixel2lifecom/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:55:50 +0000 Shadowness http://tutorials20.com/blog/tutorial-site-of-the-week-on-pixel2lifecom/ Pixel2life, one of the biggest tutorial sites on the Web is featuring Tutorials 2.0 as its “Tutorial Site of the Week Winner”. The folks at Pixel2life are amazing people (I contacted them once) and they were kind enough to let us share our tutorials on their site. To all the tutorials writers out there, that is the first place to go to when it comes to getting attention for your Website. It was no coincidence that as soon as I launched Tutorials 2.0, I had placed them on top of the list of sites to visit!

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I know I’ve been ranting forever about our traffic, but I can’t help but be amazed each time by our numbers. I feared that we would average low and would have to constantly work hard for bursts of traffic, but boy I’m glad I was wrong. We’re now averaging 6,500 uniques a day; that’s about 14,000 page views, not counting the RSS reads and social sites where people read our tutorials. The “Jelly Remake” tutorial alone attracted 45,000 hits in 5 days ;) .

On a fun note, here’s a screenshot of my workspace. Yeah, I’m very fond of Apple. Having worked on a PC for 12 years, switching to the Mac desktop has been full of good surprises. I have never felt so much at home, it’s truly an inspiring workstation for designers and developers.

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By the way, don’t hesitate to comment. I’d really like to hear what people think or would like to see on this site.

-Meng

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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!

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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!
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Meng

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# of visitors the first day: 194
# of visitors yesterday: 3,669

# of registered authors: 15
# of active authors: 4 (tell the rest to get more active!)

# of tutorials posted on the 27th December(pre-launch): 1 blog
# of tutorials posted on the 28th December(pre-launch): 6
# of tutorials posted on the 29th December: 5
# of tutorials posted on the 30th December: 5
# of tutorials posted on the 31th December: 3
# of tutorials posted on the 1st January (was drunk): 2
# of tutorials posted on the 2nd January: 4
# of tutorials posted on the 3rd January: 3
# of tutorials posted on the 4th January: 4

Analytics Graph:
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Category views

14355 Graphics
6460 3D
5019 Motion
4177 Blog
4139 Coding
3690 Misc
1559 Design (??)

    All these numbers can only mean two things:

    1) We’re growing!
    2) You’d better come back every day or you’ll miss some AMAZING tutorials! (Just kidding, you can always browse back through tags and categories)

    I’d personally like to thank you for using this site and also to the blogging & social communities for letting us share our knowledge through these tutorials. Last but not least, props to the authors for their hard work in teaching us something new every day.

    Cheers,
    Meng

    ]]>     http://tutorials20.com/blog/tutorials-20-1-week-after-launch/feed/ 0     Launching Tutorials2.0! http://tutorials20.com/blog/the-beginning-of-20-tutorials/ http://tutorials20.com/blog/the-beginning-of-20-tutorials/#comments Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:45:51 +0000 Shadowness http://20tutorials.com/?p=3 It was an idea I wanted to start quite a while ago: combining tutorials (art) and 2.0 philosophy where it belongs to the users to tell what’s good from what’s bad. When you think about it, blogs and tutorials — which have been around for quite a while — are almost the same in term of content and how to get the point across.

    With Tutorials 2.0, users would be able to navigate easily, link easily and most importantly share & post easily their favorite tutorials to their favorite Web spaces.

    You win at participating — because you want to keep this place clean and filled with stuff that’s important to you.

    This is just the start, so be the first the leave your valuable feedback. ;)

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