Hello! I'm a web and graphic designer who loves blogging, startups and everything about the web. I started NETTUTS in April '08 as the first sister site to our super successful PSDTUTS - photoshop tutorials site.
I love making websites and hate making them cross-browser compatible, I love CSS and wish I was better at Flash, I love design and I love building, but I dislike maintenance. I'll do my best to share lots of tips from the trenches and if you know a better way to do something in one of my tutorials, please do share it in the comments!!
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How to Build a Maintainable Site using CushyCMS and Twitter
in HTML / CSS, Site Builds, Working with CMS's by Collis Ta'eedSometimes it seems there are as many CMS products out there as there are web developers. In this tutorial we’re going to build a simple one-page site and then in less than 5 minutes, get it setup with a Twitter feed for daily updates and with CushyCMS for general content. If you haven’t seen it, Cushy is a completely free and extremely simple to use product that’s come on the market recently. Continue Reading
Use Amazon S3 & Firefox To Serve Static Files
in Misc by Collis Ta'eedHosting services have gotten a lot better in recent times, more storage, more bandwidth, cheaper prices. But there is only so far that regular hosting will go. When I first launched PSDTUTS, despite being on a great webhost with some big specs, we ran into both bandwidth and file serving problems when our tutorials (each containing dozens of heavy images) would land on Digg. And then a friend recommended I try using Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (aka S3).
Contributions Open, Traffic Steady & Other News
in News by Collis Ta'eedIt’s two weeks since NETTUTS launched and I’m happy to report the site is kicking along better than I ever expected! With two and a half thousand RSS readers and some eight thousand visitors a day, it’s kinda staggering for a brand new site!
With such booming progress I’ve been knuckling down to get the mechanics of the site working a little better and have plenty of news to tell…
7 Crucial Tips for Designing and Maintaining a Large Site
in Articles by Collis Ta'eedProjects vary in scope and size, and the challenges they entail vary likewise. As a lone web designer, the biggest job I am responsible for is FlashDen. Along with thousands of active members all chatting, uploading and buying, the site processes large amounts of money and large amounts of traffic.
Designing, redesigning, maintaining and working with developer team has given me some useful insights and tips for making life easier. And since today we’ve launched my latest redesign of the site, it seems like a good time to write up my top 7 tips! Continue Reading
Best of the Web - April
in Web Roundups by Collis Ta'eedWhile naturally in my totally unbiased opinion, the best thing to happen on the web in April was the launch of NETTUTS, there is of course tons of great content out there. I’ve put together some of my picks of the best things to pop up during April …
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Build a Sleek Portfolio Site from Scratch
in Site Builds by Collis Ta'eedThere’s nothing like building an entire site to show you a good overview of how a CSS layout should work. Over at PSDTUTS we’ve got a tutorial where you design up a sleek, high end web design. In this tutorial we’re going to take that PSD file and build it with some nice clean HTML and CSS.
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Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery
in HTML / CSS, Javascript / AJAX by Collis Ta'eedOne of the biggest challenge to web designers is finding ways to place a lot of information on a page without losing usability. Tabbed content is a great way to handle this issue and has been widely used on blogs recently. Today we’re going to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then make it function using some simple Javascript, and then finally we’ll achieve the same thing using the jQuery library. Continue Reading
Creating a PayPal Payment Form
in HTML / CSS by Collis Ta'eedAlthough it can have some issues, PayPal does provide a very simple way to take payments on a website. And with a little tweaking you can easily turn a PayPal “Buy Now” button into a form where the user specifies how much they’d like to pay and what they are paying for. Continue Reading
Launch!
in News by Collis Ta'eedAfter the massive success of PSDTUTS, it seemed like a good idea to branch out into tutorials on other subjects. Since one of the most requested types of tutorials has always been for web development, that seemed like a logical place to go. And so today I’m happy to be launching NETTUTS! Continue Reading
User Link Feed
in Features by Collis Ta'eedHello! Welcome to the User Link Feed. Anyone can submit links with a short description which will then appear in the sidebar. Links must be approved before appearing and we filter out links that aren’t relevant to the audience. We generally want:
- Links to Useful Resources and Downloads
- Links to Tutorials
- Links to Inspirational Work (*really good* work only please)
- Links to Articles
You can submit your links below using the form. They are generally approved within 24 hours.
