Preserved Topic: Request and Suggestions Please...

Hey all,

Its Adam, from RazorDesigns. After all of the comments here at the Asylum I have made amny changes to my website. (razordesigns.net) I am working very quickly on the tutorials section and wanted to get some suggestions and requests on what kind of tutorials everyone is looking for. Some sites have repeated tutorials you can find anywhere..So please make some suggestions....I will definitly take them into consideration and the tutorials page will be posted soon....Thanks....Oh and, you fcan critique some of the changes on my site as well, if you'd like.

Thanks,
Adam S.
razordesigns.net

dude! I apologize for the previous comment I made regarding your last name and want to tell you that your new frontpage kicks ass! It does load a little slowly over T1 though. Regardless, I still love the graphics....

http://www.razordesigns.net

okay, now that i have alink i can click it.... bbl.

...: i can't think of even one tutorial that needs to be done :...

Hey man the layout look's cool! The first thing could be making tutorials how you did those different effects to your layout??!?!
Then maybe some photomanipulation and some tuts from the interfaces you've done?

Cheers
Jusa

-Time is always against me-

Thanks for the comments.......
:-)

Boudga: Thank you for apologizing.... I hope and look forward to talking with you on the Asylum more.

Hopefully my tutorials section will be up in a couple of days.....Im still open for suggestions...Thanks for the ones posted.

Thanks,
Adam S.
razordesigns.net

Lookin good.

Just one little nitpick coming from a teacher.

"I cleaned up his suite..." You do housecleaning on the side?

On the photo retouch. Just a little typo.

I would like to see a tutorial on masking 'wispy hair'... in other words, when ya get a photo with someone who has straggly hair all over the place (due to wind) and then one wants to isolate the person from the background...

well thats my wish

dont think I saw your site before... it looks OK... cant say that I see anything that is particularly outstanding but the graphics are clean and the Download time is decent.

As Twitch^ said, there are virtually limitless tutorials already. I'll fill ya in on the approach I'm taking with mine...

1. Go more in depth with your tutorial (on whatever subject) than the most indepth tutorial you've seen.

2. Try out your tutorial on someone who's Never tried what you are teaching. If they can do it, you're done. If not, make it clearer.

3. Cross-link your tutorials. I've got one on reassembling slices for buttons, it cross links with the tables tutorials, as well as the PS tutorial on making the images, and the javaScript tutorial. It's a bit of repitition, but this wayALL bases are covered.

4. Leave lots of comment tags in your code, a lot of people like to look. I've got stuff like:

<!-- here's where we blah blah blah note how we blah blah blah-->

5. Do " real world" type stuff. If possible, show examples of real web sites using just what you're teaching. For example, in my tutorial on Nested tables, I laid out all sorts of ways to do them---then took screenshots of EBAY and Yahoo finance, marked them up to show the individual tables, and then back referenced to the separate points in the tutorial to show HOW they did this or that.

6. This one can get tricky: If possible, try to have your tuts FLOW. Don't show how to do something, then abandon it completely in the next tut. Ideally, design something in your mind, then show in a tutorial step-by-step how to do the complete design. The trick is to also have the tuts viable on a stand-alone basis.

(ex Let's say you do a tut on how you did the graphics an your homepage nav bar. Have that tut, then flow into the tut on how to slice and dice, then how to reassemble , then how to make buttons, then how to add the javascript, etc.....

7. Show A LOT of examples, and then SHOW THE CODE.

But again, the most important thing is depth depth depth!!!

BTW- I like the new design a lot!



[This message has been edited by heddaLettis (edited 02-07-2001).]

you know, hedda, you're looking at this in a very intriguing way... i like that.

check out most publications on the web now--they're cross-linked back and forth so that no information is typed without someone reading it through one way or another. links of relevancy, especially. i think we should start writing tutorials that are more informational, and, hence, more like articles. seems a lot more logical.

I'd love to see some more tutorials on how to achieve great effects with the use of color dodge

As soon as I get my site up I plan on making a series of three tutorials.

"Doing a little dance"

"Making a little love"

"Getting down tonight"

Of course, they will be cross linked. The three are deeply aligned with each other but also, can survive as individual tutorials. Unfortunately, the sequencing is important in these tutorials. If you try to complete the "doing a little dance" tutorial after the "making a little love" you may experience excessive fatigue or you might just appear downright desperate. "Getting down tonight" can be completed in any order. It is independent of the other two yet can be used to greatly enhance either of them as well.

It should be an interesting challenge. I'll post my results as soon as I have them up.

hedda - you seem to share a similar view to mine... i've done mini tuts for folk here on how to make an interface in ps, cut it up, then putit together in tables... another tut that i would love to have time to do is applications of javascript: form validation, or something like that.... the key is in the "applications of"....

Not sure I'm thinking along the same lines....here's what I've got brewing:

A javascript tut series that doesn't try to teach you to script.

I'm doing a listing of most common uses of javaScript and providing the code ,explanations and examples.

I'm providing the code with the "Your stuff Here" areas highlighted.

As I said, I cover the most common stuff, rollovers (that one's detailed) redirection, popups, etc...there will be a somewhat more in depth area for forms .

On the links page, I'll give lotsa links to "canned" scripts.

However, I'm 23 pages into the tutorials with no end in sight and growing increasingly unhappy with the overall design.

hedda... last time I checked, inmates in solitary weren't allowed to converse with the other inmates...

nuthin' much.. it's a original piece..

but.. can u please be fast on ur button enhancements sect ?

that i wanna see..

anyway.. Ur Site is COOL !

"they may forget what you said, they may forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel"

anyone wants some cigarretes?