2 Year Anniversary + Future Sneak Peek
Today marks the 2-year-anniversary of Tutorial9. In so short a time, our community of designers and artists have helped ten of thousands educate themselves—and have shared hundreds of valuable resources to use freely in commercial and personal projects.
We’ve learned a lot in these two years, and today we’d like to celebrate self-education. Tutorials aren’t about how you can become more like someone else, but instead how you can teach yourself important skills, and then apply the right processes and your own ideas to the right project. We stand firmly on the idea that self-education is one of the most important principles of our time…when the world says you should be more like someone else, and when mediocrity is praised, we believe in striving to be the best you can possibly be in whatever interests you.
Tutorial9 is a platform that enables self-education, and doing what is right.
And we’ve learned a thing or two ourselves these past few years…
Tutorial9 Re-thought
We’re in the process of rebranding Tutorial9, and shifting some of our fundamental building blocks. Right now, we serve over 50,000 users a constant stream of new tutorials and resources, and we do a pretty good job at it. These tutorials however are often very specific. While they are useful teaching tools, they only offer a small slice of an overall practice at any given time.
In the new Tutorial9 we want to offer both small slices, as well as comprehensive sets of tools for entire projects. These Tool Boxes will provide all the necessary knowledge and means for completing complex projects of your own.
Want to create a WordPress theme from scratch? A WordPress Theme Toolbox might contain all the building blocks for designing a theme in Photoshop, putting it into code, and then offer a plethora of extras such as incorporating featured posts, or adding custom template files.
The idea here isn’t to show you how to build a specific site, but rather while you’re building a site using Tutorial9 as a reference where you can quickly find the right tool to get the job done. And this isn’t just a concept for website designers… For example, there could be tool boxes for:
- Model Photography – Forms needed, lighting setup, useful equipment
- Business Cards – Where to print, Coupons, Best Practices
- Retouching Photos – Photoshop Tools, Case studies, Enhancements
The possibilities are endless, but the idea is that for every project, a specific set of tools can be used to get the job done quicker and better.
New Look
There will be plenty of changes and improvements around Tutorial9 alongside Tool Boxes, but one of the most noticeable changes is going to be the new look. We’re changing everything to better reflect who we are, including our brand.
When we’re ready, it will be time to say goodbye to the old cloud, and hello to the new:
All of Tutorial9 is becoming more streamlined, faster, easier to use. We know how people use the site, and there are plenty of improvements we are making so that you waste less time, and find what you need more quickly.
When will it be ready?
We’re working hard to prepare the new Tutorial9 experience, but as you may imagine, there is a lot to be done. We’re in no rush to get this out before it’s ready, and there is a good chance you won’t see any big changes around here until late 2010. We can’t share any more details about the new Tutorial9 at this time, but we can listen to your thoughts about the current experience here. If you want to influence the new Tutorial9, please contact us and tell us what you’d like to see. We’ll definitely see a lot of people requesting one feature or telling us how another feature should be scrapped, and as usual, the truth will be somewhere in the middle. Your thoughts are important to us though, and do help us deliver a more useful experience.
Thanks for another great year folks!
42 Comments
Gr8! Congratulations! And i know from past experience that tutorial9 is great for self-teaching. I started out a year ago, when i was 12, and at that time i didn’t even know photoshop existed. Now, a year later, i’m writing tuorials myself and have my own website! And it was all thanks to Tut9.
Flag as inappropriateGreat news! Congrats for two years old and hope new site will be even better.
Flag as inappropriateGreat stuff guys!
Congrats on 2 great years.
Look forward to seeing the new site.
Flag as inappropriatecongratZ :D :D
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This sounds great David. Can’t wait to see the new Tutorial 9 :-)
Flag as inappropriateCongrats with the two years. The new design looks promising, but it seems like there is a tiny “pixel-error” in the white area around number 9 – or is it just me :)
Flag as inappropriateHappy Anniversary! looking forward to the changes.
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Flag as inappropriateVery excited to see this change. I love what you guys have now and it will be hard to top, so I’m sure you must really have something good.
Flag as inappropriateOne word: bittersweet. Love the simplicity & pixel popping text but the current design was a game changer.
Flag as inappropriateExcellent … keep up the good work.
Flag as inappropriateMan, I’m glad you’re moving on to a better look and updated site, but I really enjoy your current layout and logo.
Flag as inappropriateSounds brilliant! Congratulations and thanks for sharing so much all this time.
Flag as inappropriateExcellent … keep up the good work. Thanks once again.
Flag as inappropriateSounds great! I really like the new logo, its very clean and stylish.
Flag as inappropriateCongrats! You guys have come along way
Flag as inappropriateI dont know if the image of this post will be the new T9 logo, but I like it, and would be cool if the future site get that minimal style of the logo, in grayscales.
The only thing I would add on the layout is a hole new section fot the “Creative Bookmarks” posts, because they shouldnt be on the Freebies, Resources & Downloads.
Flag as inappropriatehello David,
Flag as inappropriateCongrats !!! UR site is very informative & exciting..
Keep the good work going on…
This is one of the best design sites I’ve ever found!! Happy Anniversary!!
Flag as inappropriateHappy second Anniversary¡¡¡¡¡
Flag as inappropriateHappy Birthday! Keep the good stuff going! :D
Flag as inappropriateI’m really pleased about the development of tutorial9. The concept of more comprehensive tutorials sounds great and I totally agree with you at this point. The building process of a big project is something that should be given more attention by the tutorial sites all over the web.
Greetings and congratulations to your anniversary,
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Happy birthday!
Flag as inappropriateLooking forward those news.
Happy anniversary. :D
Flag as inappropriateGreat news guys and well done for the last two years. Looking forward to the future!
Flag as inappropriateCongratulations.
Flag as inappropriateCongrats!
Flag as inappropriateHappy Bday Tutorial9!
Flag as inappropriateCongrats guys!!
Flag as inappropriateCongrats on the 2 years, we are greatly appreciative for all the wonderful tuts you’ve given us. They’ve truly helped me out as a designer and I look forward to many great things from here.
Flag as inappropriateLove the site as it is right now, but i also think that a redesign would be great! Keep up the good work!
Flag as inappropriateThe new future looks very bright! Congratulations on the two years. Keep the good and inspirational work!!
Flag as inappropriateI noticed something about the new mark. Beautiful as it is, it seems unbalanced to the left. Check out the space between the outer ring and the cloud symbol: it’s definitely closer to the ring on the left.
I thought it was a creative effect, but upon closer inspection it’s too slight to be deliberate.
Flag as inappropriatehappy anniversary first of all and congrats on your success. my suggestion for the future is to give a little more attention to the photography section cause i feel its a bit overlooked. thats all other than that i think the site is brilliant and offers a lot of good freebies =)
Flag as inappropriatemore power!
Congrats on the 2 years! I found Tutorial9 not long ago, while I was searching for some design resources. Since then, I’m a sworn fan and follower. Looking forward to see the new look and features!
Flag as inappropriateThis is very exciting! I can’t wait to see the new site. Congrats on two years as well.
Flag as inappropriateThis is a great site, all the new is better, congratulations for this 2-year-anniversary of Tutorial9 !!
I waiting !!
Flag as inappropriateCongratulations.Love you site which I discovered via smashing network.Keep up the quality and best of luck for the future :D
Flag as inappropriateLooking forward to the new looks man. :)
Congratulations on the 2 years. Time flies when having fun, right? ^_^
I always look up to people/teams who are able to maintain such a succesfull blog.
Flag as inappropriateCongrats on reaching the two years mark. All the best for the future and I just can’t wait to see the new look with constant new resources and tutorials.
Thanks David.
Flag as inappropriateLooking forward to it, keep up the good work :)
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