Our site is almost fully functional and in short time it will reach it`s final form. The site will have a News section, this article is the first one of the serie. In this first News article I want to talk about the site and it`s goals for this year: a higher quality website with higher quality tutorials and more visitors for our publishers.
Introduction
My name is Boros Csaba (Csabi), now I'm 17 and I live in Romania and I am a beginner English speaker and I am also the creator of this site and the only administrator, developer and designer of the site, but from the listed occupations programming is what I know and like the most (if you want to talk about programming or about the site then please contact me at info@tutorialswindow.com, I'm happy to share my knowledge and to share ideas). I'we created this site from several reasons, the main reason was to test my web programming skills, a tutorial collection site was the best choice to develop because every site need to have content and here the content is sent by others :) An another reason was to earn some money with it, to have a project to show on contest (I'we already won the 3rd place on an international contest) and to include it in my portfolio. And for sure a very motivating reason was to build a community, an active community and it' very good to see it growing.Some statistics - 1.000 visitors on average!
The site currently has 172 submitted approved tutorials and 16 published approved tutorials with a total of 191.878 views, 1.021 visitors on average per tutorial. 1.021 is a very high average value and it`s possible only because I accept only the top quality tutorials and this is good both for publishers because they get more visitors and both for the readers because they don`t need to seek through a lot of junk to find the valuable content.One of my main goals is to increase this value to 1.500 average views/tutorial until the end of this year, so I will rise the quality of the site and I will try to bring new people to the community.
As you probably noticed the tutorials are published only after I approve them and I think the approval is very fast comparing to many of my competitors, I try to approve the tutorials as fast as I can, I check my site for new tutorials at least 10 times a day, from my desktop or my phone so the tutorials are approved withing a few hours. (I need to apologize for the the past 2 weeks when I could not approve any tutorials because I`we submitted my site to a contest and I`we made it to the international final and I won the 3rd place with it :) but the contest`s rules said that I must not made any changes to my work after submitting it). But now everything went to normal so the tutorials are accepted within a few hours, but are not show immediately on the site because, each site has at least 3 hours to be the first tutorial on the site so after I approve some tutorials they are moved in a queue from where a tutorial is added to the main page each 3 hours. Although the tutorials are immediately show in the category and subcategory pages so they can already start to bring visitors.
Website improvements
I do know that the website has a lot of bugs and features under construction, for example 2-3 weeks ago the site was hacked, but I`we already fixed some weak points but I do know that it has some vulnerable pages so I have a lot of things to fix and build.My main plans/goals/ideas with the development of the site for this year:
1) I want to create a new commenting system with Gravatar avatars and I want to make it so I can approve or deny the comments and when I approve a comment the author of the tutorial where the comment was added will be notified so he can reply the questions.
2) I want to complete the publishing system and to bring more people who want to publish, I think the publishing system is very easy to use and it`s a great system for writing tutorials, but it has some features that are still under construction.
3) I want to finish and fix each page of the site and I want to write some tutorials/articles about how to use the site and all it`s features.
4) I want to create a feedback form so I could find each error of the site and I would know what is good, what is not and what would be good.
Thanks for reading this article!
Thanks for reading this article!Don`t forget that you can contact me at any time at info@tutorialswindow.com
And check back because this article is only the first of the serie, but there will be more new articles, too.
Csabi
Posted 373 days ago.Hi!
This is the first comment using the new comments system!
Yep, It`s ready!
Sure, it has some minor bugs and the notify on followup comments is not ready, but I wait your feedback for debugging and further fixes!
Thanks for any help!
I`m waiting to approve more comment!
This is the first comment using the new comments system!
Yep, It`s ready!
Sure, it has some minor bugs and the notify on followup comments is not ready, but I wait your feedback for debugging and further fixes!
Thanks for any help!
I`m waiting to approve more comment!
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