Another tutorial we have enjoyed is this one which Creates a Puzzle from a Photograph using Photoshop. The result is very cool and surely can be used in all sorts of photos, from holiday pictures to portraits of friends and family.

How about going back to the 80s? This tutorial teaches How to Design a Stack of 80s Cassette Tapes. A great tutorial for theme parties.

And for kids; How to Draw a Cartoon Rabbit. We love the way this author has designed the rabbit and has taken the time to explain every single step of his moves, the outcome is very cute and easy to personalize for all of you that decide to give it a try.

Last but not least a tutorial on How to Design Text with the Harry Potter Effect in Photoshop.

We hope you enjoy this weeks tutorials!

Fantastic new tutorials out this week! Here is a review on our selection but don’t forget to check us out in Tutorial-Index.com for many more tutorials that meet your specific needs.

One of our regular collaborating authors has sent us a very original tutorial. With Photoshop they have taken apart a microscope and have Designed a Prototype Mosquito with Microscope Parts. The process and result is great, really worth giving it a try and letting your imagination go with other possible metamorphosis.

Another great and original tutorial is How To Design a Flying Elephant with Photoshop, the result is certainly more sophisticated that Dumbo, actually it is quite surrealist and artistic.

Smoky Eyes are in fashion, so how about being able to create a smoky eye effect with Photoshop? Pretty cool wouldn’t in? This tutorial teaches you How To Create a Smoky Eye Make Up Effect the technique and in a very simple manner. Have fun doing the right make up retouches in your pictures!

We are big fans of video tutorials and in this case the author teaches us How to Create Day and Night Lights Effect with 3D Studio Max. A great way to learn and experiment.

We also recommend this week a website design tutorial, in this case How to Design Website Menu with Photoshop.

Have fun!

The author of this tutorial has shown us her Simple Tricks to Draw Your Own Cartoons with Photoshop. It is quiet a fun exercise that involves hand drawing and photoshop techniques.  Great for putting into practice your own creative skills.

This simple tutorial is one that I am sure more than one would have liked to know how to do at some point, it shows you step by step how to Add a Water Reflection Effect on an Image using photoshop. This is a simple tutorial which you can further develop and explore the numerous ways you can create this effect on your own photos.

In this case the author of this tutorial has created a Fantasy Setting Surrounding an Image, the outcome is very good and simple to do. This is the type of tutorial where you can let your fantasy go and explore all types of new ideas and designs.

We love this step by step tutorial that explains very clearly how its author has created A Trip to Planet Mars Scenario. Really worth taking a look at and seeing how the tutorial uses various tools and tricks to get to the final effect.

Our final choice is an interesting one because although it is simple it should be done by everyone that wants to have perfect pictures and effects in their photos. This tutorial shows a simple way to Find the Perfect Background Colour for your Picture. It plays around with various options until it comes to the final one, interesting to see the process and very applicable your one’s own work.

We hope you enjoy our selection!

Design your own F16 Fighter Jet, the result is very amazing and realistic, it is explained down to the detail.

Another option is to Design a Plane with Propellers, described very well, it takes you by the hand step by step of the design.

Create an Abstract Particle Background, a good technique to know, very convenient when you want to replace the background of photos or designs.

Create Spiral Stairs with a figure going up them, great technique and great effect.

How to model a Chinese Table Set, great results and very complete since different techniques and shapes are used in this tutorial.

We hope you enjoy!

This week’s post will be dedicated to website design and optimization. We have received a few very good tutorials that step by step give you tips and ideas on how to design a website from zero. So let’s begin…

Our first step is designing the website with this tutorial on How to Create a Clean, Minimal Website Design in Photoshop. The outcome is very crisp and visual; it is a good starting point to then personalize your own website and design.

Second step is to highlight the important information on your website, either news or special prices:

You can highlight information in your website with this tutorial on How to Design Classic Website Context Boxes with Photoshop. Very useful and easy to match to your website colour combination.

If you were thinking of selling goods or services, you will need to inform your visitors of your prices and promotions, this tutorial teaches How to Design an Effective Pricing Table using Photoshop.

Third step, and a very important one to consider is creating an effective website that takes no time to upload, this tutorial gives you some tips, 11 Ways to Cut Down on Server Load of Your Website.

Last but not least, today no website is complete without a Blog, we recommend for you this 5 Step Tutorial – How to Start a WordPress Blog.

We hope these tutorials are useful and that you are successful in your website design. The best of luck!

Model a contemporary home interior with 3dsMax, the outcome is very hip and can give you some great creative ideas for modelling your furniture setting at home.

The other interior design tutorial is based on How to Model Bathroom Furniture with 3dsMax. A great tutorial to practice with specially if you are an interior design student.

For all those Apple fans we have a tutorial that shows you how to Design an Apple iMac with Photoshop, great and realistic outcome. Great practise to start mastering the program.

If you are into hand drawing logos then this tutorial will be of your interest, it shows How to Create Typography Poster using Photoshop. The creator of this tutorial bases himself on a scanned hand drawn design, the outcome is great and as he points out it is recommended for the CS5 version and users with some experience.

Last but not least, a simple Photoshop tutorial to Design Sand Ridges in a Sand Dune.

This tutorial very effectively explains step by step how to Model a Digital Photo Frame in 3ds Max. The outcome is impressive, certainly many of you will want to try and see the results.

With Photoshop we are also taught how to Manipulate a Recent Photo turning it into an Old Photo. The effect is great and very cool if you want to play around with family photos or photos of trips you have done. We will certainly be trying out this method and recreating scenes of the 50s. It will be a good laugh!!

Twitter is the big thing now, so here is a Photoshop Tutorial on Designing the Twitter Bird. The outcome is very good and for sure you can play around with the design and create different expressions and poses for the famous blue bird.

For all of you wanting to install a rating system in your website, this tutorial will help it shows how to Create a 5 star Rating System using jQuery, PHP and MySQL.

Finally but not least a simple tutorial for those who know its easy but cannot remember how to do it: How to Change a Button Text using JavaScript.

Hope you enjoy our selection!

Digital Arts has sent us great material and we would like to highlight two of their tutorials.

One is how to Create a Colourful and Vibrant 3D Quirky Image with Illustrator. The result is great, very original and an organized chaos of colour and shapes that you can marvel at and learn from.

The other tutorial uses Master Custom Brushes in Photoshop. The image result is very modern and shows how you can obtain brilliant results using customized Photoshop brushes and photomontage techniques.

Another very colourful design is this one that teaches how to Colour Your Artwork Using Actions in Photoshop. The author begins from her own design on paper which is the scanned and coloured in Photoshop. Great result with fantastic colours.

We have also received two very good tutorials on webdesign, from different authors, a good exercise for you to learn and practice different techniques.

One of the designs is a Clean and Minimalist Layout on Photoshop.

The other design teaches how to Create a Blog Website Design in Photoshop.

We hope you enjoy this weeks Tutorials!

This tutorial explains how to Create a CSS Image Gallery, the outcome is very good, the image is expanded via mouse hover. A very clean effect which web designer should master and apply to their designs.

How to Soften Skin with Photoshop, I love this tutorial! Who has never wanted to have a photo with perfect skin? Well now your can, this tutorial is very well explained, it takes you step by step and the results are great.

Create a Fog Effect in Photoshop, this tutorials starts from a photograph of a forest to create a fogy and mystic scene with a goddess. The outcome is great and the explanation is well worthwhile going through.

This tutorial shows you how to Design a Road Side Board with Photoshop. The tutorial starts from scratch and your end result looks quite realistic with a cloudy background.

How to Hide Content until Someone ‘Likes’ Your Facebook, this is a very useful tutorial for those that use Facebook as a marketing tool for their content. Gives you some ideas on how you can increase your follower base.

We hope you enjoy our selection.

This week we begin with a very useful effect; how to create a landscape change effect with Photoshop. To fully understand what this means I recommend you check the tutorial and see how this designer has successfully applied this concept to a photograph. The end result is great, I can think of various images on which I could apply this to.

This new comer has sent us a great tutorial on how to create a portfolio website design with photoshop. The explanations are very detailed and the design is simple and functional, any person venturing into their first website design would definitely want to check out this step by step tutorial.

Design a Business Man Mascot with Photoshop, this is a fun tutorial that starts from a hand drawn design. The tutorial takes you through the steps of creating your mascot; in this case a business man dressed to the detail and a big welcoming smile.

We also have a tutorial that starts from zero and creates an image of stacked up number blocks with 3dsMax. It is a good tutorial to practice perspectives, lines and design.

Our last tutorial for the week, last in line because it is not related to design but just as good and very useful, how to fix a system restore that is not working in Windows 7.

Hope you enjoy!

- Our favorite tutorial for the week is this video tutorial that explains in detail the art of Painting with Lasers in CS5. The video is very well edited, easy to follow and the results are excellent. We encourage you to follow this tutorial if you are interested in painting or in changing the textures of your photographs with CS5.

- We love the effect this tutorial has put together when showing how to create a Spherical 3D Puzzle using Photoshop. The final result is very realistic and well designed.

- This tutorial teaches you in a very easy step by step manner how to create Water Effects in Photoshop. The tutorial begins with a clear screen and takes you through all steps to create a very realistic shore scene with a water splash and all.

- Create a Conceptual Monochromatic Composition in Photoshop, interesting choice of photographs and composition, a very intricate job with excellent results. It is a great technique to further develop and experiment with.

- Our last recommended tutorial for this week for Photoshop rookies, it shows you how to Turn your Photo to Warhol style Pop Art, have fun!

Realistic Architectural Visualization with 3ds Max and mental ray, Second Edition by Roger Cusson and Jamie Cardoso is a highly recommended book for experienced users in modeling. The book jumps straight into the practicality of the subject so you must have experience in this field if you want to get out the most from it.

It is a perfect recommendation for architects and architecture students. Its shows you step by step and in a very clear manner how to render architectural scenes using mental ray in 3ds Max. Programs in general are quite difficult to get a hang of and there always seems to be a point of frustration with all books, this particular book tries to tackle these feelings by using a lot of images and all sorts of marks that will help you follow through the examples with success and a smile, or at least without a frown.

We hope you enjoy it and find it useful!

These are our top picks:

Create a Fantastic Glowing Decorated Time Piece with Photoshop, and how fantastically it is decorated indeed! Check out the intricacies of this design and how no detail has been neglected. The tutorial it extremely well explained and takes you step by step in the outmost detail.

Design a Horse in a Nightime Background using Photoshop, using a photograph of a horse this contributor has created a magnificent image which lies between fantasy and reality. A great outcome and a technique that may be applied to other ideas you may wish to develop.

This tutorial has a different outcome to the rest, it is more practical, but no least detailed and well explained, the realism of this DVD Player Modeled with 3DS Max is incredible.

How to Create Watercolor Effect with Photoshop, in this case the author has played with a photograph of flowers, but you can apply this technique to as many images as you can think of.

This designer has sent us a great tutorial on how to create a Horizontal Photo Gallery with Hover Zoom Effect with Macromedia Flash Actionscript, the effect is great and a very attractive manner in which to display your photographs.

We hope you enjoy our selection! See you next week.

Our contributors have been busy and we have received a great variety of new free tutorials which we hope you will find interesting. Here is our selection of the week!

A 3ds Max tutorial on how to Model a USB Memory Stick, a fantastic outcome, really worth looking at and putting into practice.

For all of you out there that are bloggers or wish to have your own website, this tutorial shows you how to Design an Office Desk Layout. Great step by step explanations where you can get some great ideas to design your own.

Love cars? Well this tutorial teaches you how to Design a Luxury Sedan with Photoshop from scratch. Check out the outcome we love it, a very cartoon like effect.

We have also received a video tutorial for beginners, and quite a fun one, this one shows you how to Turn Daniel Graig into a Painting with Photoshop. The outcome is very cool and worth while trying out with some of your favorite photos.

This is another video tutorial which shows you how to Add Visual Effects using 3D Studio Max.

We hope you enjoy this week’s selection of tutorials!

Our top tutorial for this week shows you step by step how to Model a HTC Tattoo Android Phone, the tutorial covers modeling and rendering. Very complete and the outcome is amazing.

We have received yet another tutorial on modeling smartphones in this case it is a Photoshop Tutorial for Modeling a Blackberry phone. It is a different method to the one above; you can try both tutorials and see the outcome, great practice on detail and patience.

For all those architecture and design lovers we have received a new tutorial on How to Model a Table and Chair with 3DS Max. Very complete tutorial and the outcome is very impressive, enjoy and put to test your creativity.

The other two tutorials we have enjoyed this week are easier and very practical:

One shows you an Easy and Quick way to Create a Photo in CS5.

The other is an Easy Way to Create a Smoke Effect on an Image with Photoshop.

We hope you enjoy these tutorials, and take this opportunity to wish you a Great New Year! The best of luck for 2011!

This week we have made a random selection of tutorials, no particular theme to them just useful tricks and tools that you would like to know of or even refresh your memory with.

How to Create a Realistic Snow Animation with Photoshop, very useful for these winter days and Christmas motives, the tutorial is very well explained and the outcome is fantastic! This is why we have named this tutorial “Best Tutorial of the Week”.

How to Create a Conceptual Vintage Illustration with Photoshop, a very original outcome which is well worth having a look at and obtaining some good ideas for your own work, we hope you enjoy it!

How to Design a Water Drop Effect on Photoshop, tutorial which is easy to follow and from which you can make some very cool effects with from scratch or on to your own photos.

How to Convert a Photo into a Cartoon with Photoshop, a great technique to learn that will come most handy in unexpected moments of pure inspiration.

How to Create Pseudo-Vector Wallpapers for Desktop, a two part tutorial with lost of colour and imagination. A step by step tutorial that you can follow easily and design great Desktops with.

We hope you enjoy this week’s selection. We wish you all a great holiday and happy creativity!

Using Adobe Illustrator one of our members has sent us a tutorial on How to Draw a Cute Santa. The result is indeed very cute and it will look great on your season greetings e-cards to friends and family.

Placing many presents under the tree? Well how about designing and personalizing your gift tags? This Photoshop Tutorial takes you step by step to Design Christmas Gift Name Tags, no need to buy them anymore you can use your imagination to design your own. A fun and very personal touch that your loved ones will cherish and greatly appreciate.

The following Tutorials are not Christmas oriented but we think that you can choose your own themes and use seasonal photos to play around with these very cool effects.

This tutorial teaches you how to Create a Cool Effect on your photos, in this case the photo is of a model. But how about playing with your most cherished photographs and using this effect to greet friends and family in this holiday season?

In Photoshop we are taught how to do a Signature Creation from your favorite picture. The example used here is from Star Wars but you can use whichever theme you prefer to a snowed scenery, a Christmas card, or a family picture. Personalize your signature this Christmas!

Last but not least, is our Top Tutorial of the Week: How to Create a Modern Vintage Concept Design in Photoshop. A very studied and well though out tutorial, even though the theme is not Christmas we had to give them the prize. I hope you agree with us and enjoy it as much as we did.

This book is recommended for people that never got round to understanding Photoshop and how it works with photographs. Do not be scared, it is a not a boring and complicated book, it works through step by step tutorials that are easy and fun to follow. You will see Photoshop in a different light and photography will take a whole new meaning.

This is a great holiday gift for those loved ones that enjoy photography and want to master Photoshop to improve their pictures. We hope you enjoy it!

Since Christmas is round the corner it would be appropriate to also recommend to you a seasonal Photoshop creation, in this case a step by step tutorial on how to create a Cartoon Snowman Illustration Effect. It seems like a simple drawing but the level is “hard”, put to test your Photoshop skills and get into the holiday spirit.

Other additional tutorials that we have picked as the best of this week are:

Create a Feather Effect on Photoshop, very cool final results that you can use for any sort of abstract images of your choice.

Design your website template with Photoshop using this very easy step by step tutorial.

Create a Fisheye Lens effect on your Photographs with Photoshop, for a more dramatic effect and very contemporary look to your photos.

We hope you enjoy the picks for this week!

Fantasy taken to its maximum level, we love how this author has created a fantasy scene with mystery and action using Photoshop CS5: Fantasy Scene of a Sorceress and a Tree Monster . Absolutely love how real bit and pieces of trees have been used to create this very real effect. Our favourite of the week!

Is it not awful when you go to a great city for tourism and the day is gloomy and cloudy? Your photos of great historical buildings loose impact with shadows and low lighting. Today we present you with a very easy to follow tutorial on how to Lightening Shadows in Photoshop. Now all you can regain the colour from your photos and eliminate dark colours from shadows or cloudy days.

Another fantasy setting we loved this week is done with Photoshop in this case the creator plays around with the photo of a girl and creates a whole fantasy scene around her. How to create an Enchanted Forest Around An Image is another favourite of the week, we hope it gets your imagination going and you can create enchanted settings to your favourite photos.

This Photoshop setting is more modern and related to music; it brings you back to pop art and comes up with a very playful mixture of colours that will give you great inspirational ideas. This tutorial on How to Create a Music Concept Design in Photoshop will get all of you into a very creative mood and maybe even some fun ideas for invitations to parties?

The final tutorial we would like to recommend for you this week is one that shows you in a very simple step by step manner how to Make an Elegant Text Style.

We hope you enjoy these recommendations! And as usual don’t be shy you are more than welcome to share with us your creations on Facebook.

This great tutorial will show you how to setup the V-Ray renderer for 3ds Max, which seems to be the fundamental and, probably, the most controversial and frequently raised subjects in the 3d rendering. You will learn what are the best universal settings for V-Ray interior rendering, how to setup V-Ray for good exterior renderings, and a lot, lot more!

2. Add Ultra Realistic Colors to Any Gray-Scale Photo

A detailed Photoshop tutorial on how to colorize your B&W photos. You’ll be shown all the steps necessary to give their outfit nice realistic colors.

3. How to Zip a File or Directory at the Server with PHP

Sometimes you require zipping a file or even an entire directory at your server with PHP. The best way is to use ZipArchive class to do it. If you have PHP 5.2 or later version installed on your server and if zip library is enabled then ZipArchive class will be available to you.

4. Using Inkscape to Create Textures

Usually you would not think of using Inkscape as a way for creating textures, but it can be done! This tutorial shows you how.

5. How to Jailbreak Apple TV 2G Using Pwnage Tool 4.1

A video tutorial on how to jailbreak the Apple TV 2G using the Pwnage Tool on iOS 4.1.

2. Second place is for Daddy Design and their great tutorial that shows how to make digital 8-bit style corners using only CSS. The result is beautiful quick rendering 8-bit style corners requiring zero images. There is only one drawback to using this method: you must use a solid color background in your design.

3. An interesting tutorial from PolygonBlog on how to deal with character rigging in 3D animation takes the third place this week. Character rigging means the process of preparing the character for animation. In this tutorial you’ll learn the basics of using the Morpher and Skin modifiers to manipulate and deform a simple character in 3ds Max 2011.

4. The next place is for Chris and his “Create Quiz in PowerPoint” tutorial. One of Chris’ passions is to add value to each of the presentations that he does during a senior management meeting. In this tutorial he explains how to make an effective and a killer presentation by adding quiz questions and answers in your business presentation.

5. Finally, we have a bunch of SEO tutorials and tips for you. Follow them to get all competitor links using Scrapebox or to get your images indexed by Google Images. You may also want to understand the meta tags and make your website appear top in Search Engine.

Enjoy!

How to Add Column Layout Shortcodes to a WordPress Theme: learn not only how to add column shortcodes to your WordPress theme but also how to convert this into a column-layouts plugin.

Create an Amazing Card Photo Manipulation: in this tutorial the author manipulates some cards so that the symbols blown away! Don’t play poker with this guy!

Turning Photos into Oil Paintings: turn your photos into oil paintings… and print them on the canvas.

Include a JavaScript file from a JavaScript file: it is easy to include a JavaScript file in your HTML. But what if you wanted to include another external JavaScript file from inside your first external JavaScript file? There are two ways to accomplish this.

Marty Eveningn the author is himself a professional photographer and an experienced writer in the subject of Photoshop. The book is like an encyclopaedia on Photoshop, it guides you through all aspects of the software, don’t expect to read it in one go, it is a guide and will be most useful when you have a picture in mind and an idea of what you would like to do with it. We hope you find our recommendation interesting, “Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers: a professional image editor’s guide to the creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC”, is a very handy resource to have on your bookshelf.

1. Making an AJAX Web Chat (Part 1) – PHP and MySQL: in this two-part tutorial, you will be creating an AJAX Web Chat using PHP, MySQL and jQuery. In this first part the author is discussing the PHP & MySQL side. Next week he will continue with the jQuery and CSS front-end.

2. Texture Painting in 3ds Max: this is the third tutorial in four part series dealing with character animation. These tutorials are targeted to beginners wanting to learn the basics of organic modeling, unwrapping, texturing, rigging, and creating a cute 3d monster. In this third part you will be dealing with texturing. You’ll learn how to create and apply textures with Viewport Canvas.

3. Design a Sleek Eco Business Layout in Photoshop: learn how to design a layout for a Green Business in Photoshop!

4. Creating an advanced Javascript Slideshow: very detailed tutorial about creating an advanced slideshow using only Javascript, CSS and HTML and NO jQuery. This slideshow has lot`s of features like auto slide, resize and advanced controls.

5. How to Shape a Youtube Template To Your Channel: tutorial on how to shape your youtube template to fit your entire page.

I. “Top Tutorial of the Week” award goes to Ainsley Bevis for showing how to design, slice and code your own Photoshop layout in Photoshop and Dreamweaver. There is a complementary tutorial, also by Ainsly, that will teach you how to design the layout for this lesson.

II. “Create Professional Blog Layout Design Using Photoshop”, by Anupama Rao, tutorial takes second place this week. Simple, fast and very useful.

III. For the Drupal enthusiasts, we have “How to Create A Drupal Views (Grid Style)” tutorial that comes in third place. On his personal blog, R Hutagaol has quite a few interesting Drupal tutorials. This time he explains to you how to display contents with Views with Grid style.

IV. 4^th place goes to Adriana for a unique Steampunk-ish concept design. In her tutorial, “How to create a Modern Heart Concept in Photoshop”, instead of the rusty and old look, Adriana uses cleaner and shinier elements. She also makes use of nature elements, vectors and some brushes.

V. Nisha Gandhi takes 5^th place this week for her new tutorial “How to Make an Iceberg and a COOL Text”. Check out the amazing results Nisha achieved in Bryce 5.5.

Another example of original and creative use of Photoshop we received last week is a “How to Mix Hand Drawing Sketch With Photo” tutorial that shows how to use sketch and combine it with a real picture in PS. As a result you will get a very unique and fantastic effect. Some drawing skills will be needed here… but, hey, who said creating digital art is only question of having basic skills in using your mouse and keyboard?

We also recommend you two very useful Flash tutorials by Blue_Chi, both on how to use ActionScript 3 to make the most of some latest mobile devices’ features. The first one will teach you how to use the geolocation sensor of a smartphone to retrieve the geographical position of the user. Thanks to the second tutorial you will learn how to use the accelerometer sensor in your Android and iPhone mobile Flash projects. These are just the must-to-know for any mobile app developer.

Enjoy all these fantastic tutorials and remember that these are just a few of our favourite this week; you can find a lot lot more at Tutorial-Index.com.

We know that 3ds Max can be daunting for beginners, many of our Tutorial-Index.com followers anticipate the 3ds Max tutorials that we publish on a weekly basis. It is therefore our wish to help you access the best available tools in the market and become an expert with this program. We hope that this book will help you tackle common problems and will provide you with the knowledge needed to pass on to more sophisticated 3D designs.

“Introducing 3ds Max 9: 3D for Beginners” is our first recommendation within the new section called “Recommended Reading”, we hope you enjoy it and keep reading us for upcoming recommendations by Tutorial-Index.com.

We also recommend a very useful Photoshop Video Tutorial on Removing Flyaway Hairs from Photographs.

There have been many entries for 3ds Max Tutorials on designing 3D objects, here are some great ideas you can pay around with: Design an Alarm Clock, Design an Ice-cream Van, Design a Table or Design a Rugby Ball. Check out our website for more tutorials, you can learn to create step by step all types of objects.

We hope you enjoy this week’s tutorial and as usual…don’t be shy! We’d love to see your work.

Happy Creativity!

Create electrifying effects around an image with this very detailed and well explained tutorial which will take you step by step to end up with a top quality photograph with professional looking effects.

Another amazing tutorial which plays with various images to Create a fantastic surreal representation of time, the result is very Dali like, I was absolutely mind blown with this one.

We also recommend two other tutorials that you must start from scratch, with these your drawing skills will be put to test.

Learn how to design a fantastic Wallpaper of a mother a baby turtle, the way they manage to create a great light effect in the water is fantastic, a great tutorial that you can apply to many other creative ideas.

We have also received the last version of the Roman House tutorial, it finishes off with a step by step guide on how to draw a Roman lady wearing a tunic.  It is very well explained and although it may seem complicated at first once you get the hang of it you will in no time be drawing Romans in chariots!

We sincerely hope you enjoy this selection, as always don’t be shy; we would love to hear from you and your experience when trying these tutorials.

Have fun!

This week we have had a series of interesting tutorials come in, I will give you a selection of our favorites, we have limited space but there are many more tutorials online so feel free to browse Tutorial-Index.com and find what suits your needs best.

• I love this tutorial that takes you step by step on how to Reveal an Image with your Mouse, a great technique that is fun and useful, will keep your friends and followers in suspense ad they try to figure out what image they are about to see.

• I also like this tutorial that teaches you how to Animate an Image Along a Path, in this case they have used a teapot, and I can imagine the effect to be very cool once it has been applied to your final work. Check it out, great to play with and create different paths for objects to move around in.

• This is a simple tutorial and quite a classical one, some of you may take it as a given but others may not; how to Erase Tattoos with Photoshop perfect technique to erase tattoos or imperfections which you may not wish to reveal in your photos.

I hope you enjoy our recommendations, and let me say, don’t be shy! We would love to hear from you and see what great pieces of creative work you are coming up with.

Do you need to start preparing party invitations?

Well we have a few ideas on which tutorials could give you a hand on designing the perfect invite!

Write your party invitation text on this Blood Stained Note Paper, and place a Zombie Eaten Bloody Hand for a real dramatic effect!

Or maybe you prefer less gore and would like a more mystic effect; you can get this by using a recognizable head shot, Frankenstein or a Witch, and turn it into a Smoke Portrait. To accompany it you can add with Hypnotic Typography all the details to your very cool Halloween party!

Let us know how you get on, and don’t be shy, share with us your creations!

Happy Creativity!

We are highly impressed with the dedication of these great designers who share their work, tricks and ideas with all of us. Thank you! These are some of my favorites from the last couple of weeks.

When you were a kid did you have in your mind the perfect cartoon character, the perfect toy you would love to own? Well dig back into memory lane because with this tutorial you can model a 3D character. Its creation in a state of pure bliss let your wild childhood fantasies free!

And here are some ideas that will get you thinking… “just fooling around with some photographs” and it will end up with a joyous exclamation “Honey! Check out what I just created!” here are two tutorials that will leave your piers impressed.

Did you take the perfect photograph this summer? The perfect beach? The perfect sunset? The perfect family picture? Well wait no longer and learn how to convert a photograph into a realistic painting. It’s a great way to make that perfect photograph an unforgettable image.

And those of you who are sitting by the AC and wanting to cool off after a hot summer can also do it in photographs! You can create a frosted image from a photograph, the effect is amazing and really worth while playing around with.

Great tutorials with which to get your creativity flowing and make the end of summer a lot more fun.

I wish you enjoy these picks. Waiting to hear from your experiments and how your photographs turned out, don’t be shy and share with the rest of us.

Welcome back!

• An Indepth Look at the Painting Tools in Photoshop CS5: demonstrates the bristle brushes, which simulate traditional paint brushes – the kind your local art-supply store sells – and its new Mixer brush, which lets you give a photo a painterly look. You’ll be amazed by the results!

• Create a Ying Yang Inspired Poster in Photoshop: a tutorial on how to create a poster inspired by the all-known symbol, Ying and Yang. We will try to create the same balance from the sign in a more elaborate illustration.

• Create A Simple PHP Contact Form: every site needs a contact form, but for a lot of beginners, the code can be a bit intimidating at first.  In this article we are going to create a simple contact form that you can put on your website so your users have an easy way to get a hold of you.

• Vintage Effect in Photoshop: this tutorial will take you through the making vintage effect in Photoshop.

• Create skyscappers in maya within seconds: in this tutorial we take a look at the KludgeCity MEL script created by Edward Whetstone of WhetstoneVFX.com. This tool was developed as part of his short film project, “The Sum of Parts”. It is open-source and freely available for anyone to use or edit.

• Shooting Bullets Against Objects: a flash tutorial showing you how to make bullets shoot and hit an object, using ActionScript 2 .

• Building a Real Application: covers the building of the first real application — the address book. Learn to design and apply the “CRUD” interface to the database of your site and write some Catalyst actions.

• Better Charts in Excel using Photoshop: by exporting the graph into Photoshop, you can easily transform a once boring graph into a stunning masterpiece.

• Mental Ray Lighting and Rendering in 3ds Max 2011: step by step tutorial about modeling a warehouse interior, lighting it, and rendering it with Mental Ray in 3ds Max 2011.

• Creating a blood effect using photoshop: so you wanna make people bleed? You’ve come to the right place…

• Create a ‘Written in the Sand’ Text Effect in Photoshop: in this Photoshop tutorial, using nothing more than filters, alpha channels and a custom brush you can recreate the effect from the comfort of your home.

• Build Hello Mediation Project using WebSphere Process Server 7: this tutorial will help you build your first HelloWorld WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WESB) mediation application and WESB mediation flow-based application.

• Customize WordPress theme to match an existing website: a step-by-step blog integration tutorial.

• Hodgepodge of WordPress Tricks: setting better titles for all pages, setting different backgrounds based on URL, improving WordPress search, live comment previews and more.

• How to Modify WordPress Theme: shows how to work with some WordPress theme codes.

• What Are TrackBacks And How Do You Use Them To Get Traffic With Your WordPress Blog: this is how traffic comes to your wordpress blog.

• Add Article Thumbnails to WordPress with Rotating CSS: “rotating image effect” for your article image thumbnails.

• Designing for WordPress: Chris Coyier’s (of CSS-tricks) process for designing a WordPress site.



Man, it’s been a while since we last posted here… What to say, you know those days when you receive tons of amazing fresh tutorials but you only have two hands to deal with reviewing and bringing it to thousands of your loyal and new users who come every day looking for tips and inspirations. You don’t? Hmm…, we do! But we go flat out to bring our blog back to life and we promise to post regularly.

For the beginning, let us feature some latest tutorials. These were most popular last week.

See Through Clothing

Make someone’s clothes disappear. No there’s no skin revealed. This is an opposite to the Invisible people tutorial

Tempting…

2. Broken Glass – Make a cool Broken Glass effect with any image
Clouds in the broken mirror. That’s art!

3. Slow Streaming Video:  How to Fix
This one has nothing to do with art, this one is just useful. Very useful! And the Word Cup is coming…

4. Make Your Amateur Photos More Professional
Basic, but just go through it instead of paying for basic photoshop course.

5. Create an Kamehameha Energy Ball in your Palm
Kamehameha effect??? Yes, you have to check this out.

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The world may be increasingly digital, but the presence of art in our daily lives remains one of society’s greatest advantages. The public display of art engages the viewer in a way that a computer screen never will. For those who wish to take their artwork to the next step, the key is in hard copy development.

There are a variety of services that can provide the artist with an archival-quality piece, worthy of display or even sale. High-quality printers will work with you to develop a final production that accentuates your work while preparing it for exhibition and display in the real world. Printing your digital piece has a number of advantages. Keeping a hard copy can defend you from computer crashes. While digital is endlessly repeatable and unlimited in its reproduction, a hard copy work can be limited, whether in its print run or display. Creating demand for your art can be as simple as transforming it into a hard copy poster with a limited run. A poster printing service is far different from a download. Instead it is a company that will work with you to present your work in the highest-quality format, without the compression and distortion that so often comes with displaying artwork online.

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Admin

Hi,

Thanks for being our valued visitors and contributors!

We know in the past there have been some delays in content publishing, and from now on we commit to review and publish new tutorials submitted in ma 3 business days.

In addition – if you are facing troubles submitting or getting your content published – please contact us by mail – admin{at]tutorial-index.com , and we’ll respond and manage all issues.

In addition – we’re planning to improve site’s design, navigation, and structure – and we will be happy to have your feedback.

Many thanks,

Yuri
Tutorial-index.com Admin

Yes, it’s time, definely about time to start face lifting tutorial-index.
We’re thinking: groovy new looks, friendly interface, and a more enjoyable experience are due.
remember the before, so you can appriciate the after

stay tuned…

Today we released a new module that removes tutorials from websites that went dead. It works similar to algorithm used by search engines. If within a few month period a website does not show a signs of life or displays generic junk search page its URL is flagged for removal from our database.

How many tutorials show up dead in the first 2 runs since our testing begin? To our surprise – 20%. Are they really dead? Yes. Before the module went live we were testing it for nearly a month. Reliability? 99.9%.

The module idea came after I got frustrated when looking for some Photoshop tutorial just to discover that half of the links that showed up on the search page were dead. As a result we assumed that most users have the same frustration when searching through our index.

So, now you can enjoy better experience with our website that has almost no dead links except those that went out of business for the last month or two.
Any comments?

If you have noticed, we have changed the sidebar over to a faster alternative ajax. This was one of our alternatives when we first made our layout but because of the fact that the site has been gaining more visitors, speed is becoming more and more of a priority.

As a result of the speed, we have reduced some of the php code, and when the new version of ti comes, the site should be a bit faster as well as more efficient. We are cutting down on database use as well as continuously optimizing the pages for speed. In the next month or so the site should be moving onto a faster server with higher response times.

Also with the growth of our site comes more features ^^. We are currently jumbling a bunch of features that we believe may be important to us in the next version of our site. This new version may not come as of yet but, we are still in the early stages of beginning a new compilation for ti. You may see a couple of new pages spring up soon as well.

Lastly, about the forums, it is growing and what comes with growth is moderation. So yes, we are looking for moderators. Send us a message through our contact page.

Advertising Updated
Due to high demand, we have brought advertising back from the dead . It is reincarnated! But yes yes, stop by if you want to gain traffic or more notice to your site. Also, some of the information we have on the page itself is outdated and we will be updating that shortly.

Thanks!

Yes, im sorry about that guys, I took the topsites down for a couple of weeks because it was causing some speed problems on the site and I finally got back to it today. Sorry about that .

Also:
Lately we have seen a huge increase in visitors and tutorial submission and we highly appreciate it. You shouldn’t have any problems connecting to the site either, as we had a couple weeks ago.

Layout Contest
The layout contest will be over Friday the 9th! Be sure to get your submission in because this is the definite cutoff for submissions for the new layout (this DOES NOT mean that we will use your layout even if you win, most likely we will)!

Updates Coming
I know there are a couple of problems with the member system’s cookies, and we will be putting a bit more effort into trying to figure out the problem. Also, we will be tweaking code a bit over the next week to speed the site up a bit, as well as making it more efficient.

Thanks!

This is definately one great step for Tutorial-index, our member system was released yesterday a little bit past midnight! There’s some extra features that come with signing up, here are a few:

Tutorial Commenting
Yes, you can comment on tutorial comments! This should be helpful for giving ideas, or more information, or your opninon on a tutorial. Rating for tutorials will be sync’d with tutorial commenting soon.

An Identity
You are now able to be recognized on tutorial-index and just like other sites, you can have a profile. We will put these features to real use soon, with new features coming soon.

Forums
Most of all, a place to commute and commune here. You can provide suggestions here, chill, or buy/sell/trade. Basically almost anything you can do a forum .

Also, a contest is coming up with good prizes for another project we are coming out with soon for tutorial-index. Stay Tuned!

Yep; we will be switching servers sometime between this week or next week, over to mediatemple. We were going to do this earlier however, weve been working on something new, as well as being in the process of optimizing and cleaning up the site . Our index is inching in towards 2K tutorials, possibly within the next 2 weeks; thanks to you guys!

Also…

We are in the final stages of finishing the member system, a couple of tweaks and bugs that need to be worked out, as well as a few more features needing to be implemented/added. Expect the member system to be out between now and February 1st!

Thanks

Hey guys I’m here to tell you of two pretty nice websites. The first one is a Photoshop Tutorial website, it is pretty new, it only opened about 2 weeks ago. The name of it is Adobe-Tutorials.net so go visit today!

Adobe-Tutorials.net

The second website is an Image Uploading website by the name of Upload Plus. You can visit it by going to http://www.UploadP.com. It is free to upload files, and you do not need to even register!

UploadP.com

This art group has been out for a good while now and has established itself well into the art community as well as the entire web. Check out this new art pack from our friends over at Evoke:

10: Hollywood

Our advertising services here at Tutorial-Index.com have changed a bit lately. Here are a couple of changes we have made to the system:

Partner Link Ads
- We have finally added text link advertising to Tutorial-Index. These text links are located on the front page under “Partners”. The rates range from $13 per month, to $125 for a WHOLE year! You can also buy 3 months for only $32.

468×60 Banner Advertising
- I know this service isn’t new, but the rates have changed as well. Now you can purchase a whole year of advertising for the cheap price of $210!

To see all rates, go check out our Advertising Page

Hey guys, I know it’s been a while since our last news blog entry here, but the staff here at Tutorial-Index would like to wish everyone a happy Christmas.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, many things are going on behind the scenes, and some big updates are coming very soon!

So stay tuned for the many updates to come in the next few days/weeks. Have a happy holiday everyone, and stay safe!

-Robert

Yes, I got tired of seeing the topsites not being updated for a WHOLE week! Bad logic coding on my part, and I’m pretty sure a lot of you will like it better this way. By having the topsites updated daily, it will give other websites in the topsites a chance to actually get in the top three. I’ve been doing some real checking on the sites that have been top 3 and they have been getting quite a few more hits than other sites not in the top 3. So this should help make the topsites a bit more equal.

Also, soon I’ll be adding a new page with a list of the top 20 tutorials, authors, and tags, and they’ll be able to be sorted by clicks, tutorials, etc. Should be a bit more helpful for the guys that don’t know how they stand within our index.

Lastly, we are working on a bigger project as we speak, and we are around always. We just may not seem it . Keep a good lookout, because we will have a nice Christmas present for the constant visitors out there!

Hey guys I’m here to let you all know of a couple of good sites I found some days ago while browsing the net.

NGXdesigns Version 3!
- This site has been around for quite a bit now, but just a couple of days ago they released a new version of their site, and it looks pretty nice! Go check it out! They also have some very helpful tutorials.

- This next site consists of ringtones, but it’s not just like any other ringtone site, on this site you can actually find FREE ringtones! Click Here for Free Ringtones.  Check it out and grab a couple free tones instead of forking over money for them.

Yup, the programming tutorials have finally hit tutorial index! We are working on getting some sites to add tutorials to the categories, as well as submitting a couple ourselves. We plan on filling these categories quite a good bit over the next few weeks, especially html and php! I hope these new sections serve a good purpose to many of you as well .

P.S.:If any of you experienced problems with the sidebar this evening, I’m sorry about that. We had a couple of small problems with the php gd library a few hours ago, and everything should be fine from now on.

Definitely want to say congrats to Greycobra on having 10K+ members. By the way if you haven’t already checked out our friends over at greycobra, then go ahead .

The new web programming categories should be in full working order by the weekend!

Hey guys, PureVisuals.com has been put up for sale at the SitePoint forums today. The starting bid starts at $145, and the Buy It Now price is set at $250. Don’t miss out on this great site and go bid today!

PureVisuals.com Auction

Yes, turkey is great .

Thanks guys for the feedback on the switchover to the new layout. I received some contacts via email about some of the issues we were having and I’ve definitely taken out some time to fix some of them.

Fixed Pagination
We had been having this problem for weeks, I think it was overdue to squash the bug heh. I also took out the time to add install an openSearch guideline file on our site, so if you see your little search box where Google usually is in Firefox with a light blue glow around it, it means this site has a search that you haven’t installed! Hopefully, having us in your search will make some of your lives easier , so you don’t have to stumble through the site just to search it.

Lightened Server CPU Load
Was causing a few problems for some of our visitors and yes, we are still stuck on Bluehost but that will change soon. We found out during peak hours that our site was hogging the CPU down to dust and so I decided to centralize all of the files (something I probably should have done a while ago). The site loads a bit faster right now, but I still have the feeling the Bluehost server we are on is still unsatisfactory for our needs; so you’ll see some changes soon .

In the Process of Adding Programming Sections
Yes, we will be adding web programming tutorial sections soon enough. Were definately expanding our territory a bit more! Sections will include ASP, PHP, HTML, CGI, Perl, MySQL, and more . We havent even started on the desktop programs yet heh.

And we have two more great features to bring you but were keeping them on the “downlow” for now. Just wanted you to be excited . Stay Tuned .

Well guys, thanks for voting for my layout, greatly appreciated. We weren’t sure if this new layout should be called version 2 or not, and honestly haven’t decided yet heh. But it definately helps corner the Fall Phase project we have been working on throughout this season. This layout is a milestone in the Fall Phase project and overall, im happy with the layout and I hope it appeals to you as well.

We will be making quite a few fixes this week before Thanksgiving rolls around, and were working on a new project to drive more interest to ti. If you have any suggestions, be sure to drop a comment, and please tell us if you like this new installment .

We have been promising a new layout forever; definately expect it soon. And the poll between the two layouts has been decided. Stick around to see which one made it on top!

Lots of goods coming your way soon; just stay tuned. Thanks

Yes yes, it is finally here, a topsites system! Now you can submit your website onto tutorial index, and gain a bit of extra traffic . To be blunt, there really isn’t too much to say about it except that, I encourage you to join! Click Here to visit and join!

A few revamps are coming soon, and we are still giving the layout a few touches. Also, weve been gaining more and more submitted tutorials, and we would like to say thanks for the support.

P.S. -I’ve added a new link to click topsites on the main bar. Also, on the sidebar, random topsites will be shown within the next few days.

-Alfred

Evoke just dropped their release at the beginning of the month, pretty good stuff:
Evoke – Discovery
DepthCORE also reoppened with V6 a few days ago, and a new pack, check it out:
DepthCORE – Vivid

Also! Be aware that a topsites is coming, and yes yes, we will be releasing a layout soon, just finishing up, and making a few tweaks! We are continuing to provide tutorials and in due time, we have a few good plans for the future, so stick around!

Hey guys our friends over at http://www.photoshopstar.com have just released version 2 of their site, please take a little time to go over and check out their smoking hot new version! It looks quite amazing.

PhotoshopStar v2!

P.S… hope you all are enjoying our brand new Author pages, but stay tuned for a brand new Layout for our very own site soon!

- Robert

It took forever to actually get this going but it’s finally here! Finally an author/user can check the tutorials a certain site has added on tutorialindex. Sorry for the sloppiness of some of it.
Just click this button beside any tutorial to view the author’s details.

Ill be fixing a few features and adding this around the website a bit before the end of the week. Also ill fix some of the sloppiness of it (No Pagination, Dropdown, etc).

Thanks

Hey guys, just thought I would drop by to let you guys know that we are working on a Layout, and aren’t just dead. Be a little patient and keep visiting back frequently.

This new layout will be more spacious, and that helps us add more information in one single page.

Stay tuned for this great new layout, along with many different features like:

Author pages

Tutorial Details

Leaders

and other extra features.

- Robert

Evoke, an artgroup that has been around a while has just released a new pack entitled Formula. Beautiful stuff in this pack, check it out:

Evoke – Formula

In the next two to three weeks we will release the rest of the fall phase in one big chunk. It’s been a pretty extensive job considering we have had to make a few changes in the backend and do more editing to stabilize the site more. But expect it out soon!

P.S. We have been getting quite a few good tutorial submissions, keep it up!

Thanks

We promised something new was coming “soon” and it is here now! A new tutorial display has hit the scene here at Tutorial-Index.com. This new tutorial display can be seen all throughout the website while browsing around. Here is a couple of more details about it:

Organization:
- Our old display was pretty messy and crowded, this new one is way more easy to read and understand what the tutorial really is and its description.

Tutorial Detailed View: Coming Soon!
- Coming very soon to Tutorial-Index will be detailed info of each tutorial. When released, you will be able to click on the “View More Info” icon and you will see a bit more info about that specific tutorial you clicked.

Author Pages: Coming Soon!
- Also coming soon, you will see a page of each tutorial author. Meaning that for example if you were to click on Video-Tutes’ author name it would take you to a page that will display all 152 of their tutorials plus some Statistics and more!

Tutorial Commenting
- That’s right, after all the other features are released, commenting will be made available for any tutorial you wish.

That’s all for now guys, but this is only the beginning of things to come around here, stay tuned with your eyes very open and check back daily for more updates soon!

- Robert

Hey guys guess what? Phase 1 of the FallPhase update here at Tutorial-Index is here! We are proud to announce that ti now has a brand new Newsblog as well as a Logo to go along with it. We are very excited about this update and hope you enjoy it as much as we will.

Newsblog
- Our newsblog has a whole new look, now not only will you see the latest Newsblog Additions, but you will be able to see the 5 Latest Comments, and who made those comments. The news will also be sorted by categories from now on. These categories are Tutorial-Index Related, which is basically any topic that relates to ti. WWW, this category will be used for any blog additions that have to do with any other site outside of Tutorial-Index. Our third and last category is Administration, which will contain all the topics that pertain to administration changes around the site.

ti Logo
- As you guys can see, we now have a brand new logo up on the front page of our site, and also on our Newsblog.

Enjoy!
- Robert

I happened to find this in our statistics and I was pretty fond of it. It’s a website, sort of like popurls, thats a collection of RSS feeds from tutorial websites. There was not a place for me to contact them on their page however but anyway go ahead and visit:

http://listorials.com/

-Alfredn

Ok, we pretty much have for you whats gonna be in the update so have a look:

Newsblog
Redesign
Yup, finally that “thing” gets what it deserves, an update! We are adding categories to it, and you will not know who’s actually posting the newsblog. It will also be full CSS, for faster speeds, and possible, a more beautiful design!

Website
AJAX
A great new technology is finally dawning on tutorial-index. We will use ajax in various places but we will be sure to place it where you need it most. Im pretty sure the menu might be ajax-ized but im not exactly sure. But there is a lot more going on in the works that will depend upon AJAX.

CSS Redesign
Redesigning the site to CSS will most definately speed up the site a little more, but at the same time, will be a better alternative to frames, and definately is more stylish compared to frames. And no, the html will not be redesigned, but the actual design will be altered dramatically. Be ready . Maybe this will put us into a 2.0 Category Eh?

More Pages
1.We plan on adding a tutorial details page for a more detailed summary of a tutorial before you visit it. Commenting will be activated on these pages as well.
2.Author pages will also be administered for your use, with RSS and lots of stats and other goodies, telling you information about websites that submit to tutorial-index. This should be fairly interesting.
3.See Below.

Rating System Refocused
This one actually takes a little reading:
We are creating a fairly complex rating system to add to the design and creativity of tutorial-index, based on something I would rather not say at the moment, to keep it secretive :O. It will attribute to the new toptutorials/authors(3) page in the index. And believe me, this is something to definately keep your eye on. Im excited as well.

This update should be done in a couple of weeks, maybe even 3 but; it is definately worth the anticipation. We are currently receiving a surge in popularity as well as a great increase in the number of tutorials being submitted to tutorial-index. Keep it up. Thanks.

Yes, we have finally opened advertising. I know I said it would be available saturday and im am very sorry for that!

Well, anyway; the major thing that is coming to t-i is the FallPhase or the FPhase update. As you can see, we are working more than ever by adding more rich content and features for you viewing pleasure. There’s one problem with this though. Everything we have been doing just hasn’t been coming together in the way we expected. So we are adding many new things to the website fairly soon. And I mean it is HUGE. Larger than any update we’ve made so far, by a long shot.

I could explain it all out, but it might be too much to take in at the moment + I dont want to ruin the suprise. Just stay tuned, and you will see.

-Alfred N

As you can see, the last few days we have updated the site with sitewide RSS integration and the subcategories have options enabled so that you can now sort the results of the subcategories. In the next few days the banner admissions and a paypal link will be added.

At the moment, tutorials are continually coming along. We are currently looking for more tutorials in other “unlocked categories” so that we can get more variety. Stay tuned, yes yes, we are working consistently.

-AlfredN

That’s right, more tutorials, over 150 I know of have been sitting on our
allowed list for the last few days. Also just so you know about what weve been doing in the last few days, check out this little list I composed:

-Submission Option List Fixed
Yes yes, we had some suggestions asking that the option list for subcategories be torn down and broken into smaller parts for easier distinction in finding category and subcategory, and yes, this has been completed. Ive tested it in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, so I feel it should be safe for the rest of our incoming visitors on other browsers.

-Category Images In IE Fixed
Robert (I’m Alfredn) took the time to replace the background of the png images with a solid color simply because of IE’s problems with handling a transparent background from a PNG format. They look pretty seamless now, and probably did not change anything for our Mozilla Firefox users (including me).

-Improved Loading Time
Remember when our website was sluggish and awfully slow? So slow, you could go through your playlist and find your favorite song long? 6 seconds, was about our average a few days ago until the 15th of August (Last Post) we found out what was slowing our website down drastically; a text ad from RevenuePilot.

-Placed a Two-Hour Delay on New Tutorials Additions
This was done to give each and every tutorial a fair chance to gain some hits on the front page. So if you submit a tutorial from now on, it will be on the front page at least 2X15(Guaranteed)= 30 Hours, or 2 Days and 6 Hours. Not bad huh?

And no we have not forgotten about our earlier developments listed on our “What’s Ahead for T-I” blog. Take a look at whats going on:

-RSS Feeds
We’ve thought about it, and yes they will be coming soon, if we can catch good time they can hopefully be done by the end of the week!

-Rating System
We are still working on this, however, we have come upon more new ideas for a rating system that may be even more complex that before. Stay tuned, stay aware!

-Statistics
Most likely we will release a module in the coming weeks, but it will not be up to the standards I will like it to be. After this module, maybe in a few months something more in detail and in-depth will be lurking your way; perhaps earlier than that.

-Improved Browsing
We are working on browsing right now, probably in a day or two, you will be able to sort categories and search results, just the fact of making our backend a little more flexible.

And there you have it, pretty much a good roundup of what’s happening around here. Also, one more thing, if you are interested in advertising, a few people are at the moment, then we will be accepting applications on Saturday (August 26th), and there will be a paypal link on the bottom of the advertising page. If you have any more questions be sure to use the contact form on the contact page or contact us at admin@tutorial-index.com

-Alfredn

Hello guys this is Robert here trying to give you all an update on what’s ahead in the near future for Tutorial-Index.com. First of all I would like to thank all of you who have visited regularly, it has been a fabulous 2 first days for T-I. We expect that to keep on going. But it is only possible if you guys contribute by submitting tutorials and visiting regularly. Ok now on to the updates I was talking about. Here are a few of the ones that will be going on in the next couple of days.

- RSS Feeds
That’s right, RSS Feeds are finally coming to T-I. Finally you will be able to get updates on tutorials and a lot of other stuff, expect that soon!

- Rating System
Our Rating system is going through a series of upgrades and will be changed very soon. Expect something more noticeable and easier to use.

- Statistics
Who doesn’t like statistics? T-I will be soon getting a statistics page where you will be able to see Live Stats.

- Improved Loading Time
Expect our website loading time to take a dip for the best! Our site will be loading a lot faster after some upgrades.

- Improved Browsing
Some of you have suggested we improve our browsing by making the stats sortable, and that’s exactly what we will be doing. Soon you will be able to sort your searches as you browse our categories.

Thanks for reading, be sure to keep an eye out for these updates. Be sure to contact us if you have any more suggestions.