This is Your Captain Speaking

This is Your Captain Speaking

on Jul 13th 2011 with 33 comments

I’m going to break this to you bluntly – Brandon’s left. Don’t take it personally, I’m sure he doesn’t prefer Wptuts+ to you, these things just happen.

Allow me to introduce myself: my name’s Ian and I’ll be at the controls of Webdesigntuts+ from now on!

I’ve been loitering the Envato corridors for a couple of years in one form or another; firstly as a staff writer at Vectortuts+, then as Editor of Activetuts+. You may also have seen some of my random contributions such as the recent Tuts+ Bundle, the Remote Staff Infographic and the Tuts+ caricatures.

You can check out more of what I get up to on my site snaptin.com.

Me in a Nutshell

  • My name’s Ian (you can call me Ian)
  • I was born in sunny Yorkshire, England, just as Duran Duran were forming..
  • I studied Graphic Design in Nottingham, England (though I’m still not sure it was entirely the best route to go)
  • I live in France
  • I have two little girls aged 6 and 3
  • My good wife is Dutch
  • Give me a Mac over a PC any day
  • Give me the great outdoors over a Mac any day

My name's Ian Yates

The Future’s Bright

I’m really excited about looking after Webdesigntuts+! It’s a great site, has a great community behind it and has huge potential. I’m already working on a few changes but I’m all ears. If you have anything you’d like to see on the site, be it a subject, a specific tutorial, a new post format, a guest writer, whatever – I want to hear about it! Feel free to throw a comment up on our Facebook page, or tweet @envatowebdesign!

Thanks for listening. Fasten your seatbelts please.

 
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  • Kristian Poslek

    Welcome! :)

  • http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/author/shaun/ Shaun Cronin

    Welcome Ian!

    I wish you all the best.

  • Adam

    Glad to have you aboard! :)
    I’m sure you’ll do a great job, look forward to seeing what you can contribute to the site.

    Good luck!

  • GorillaWma

    Welcome Ian, I have no doubt that you will put same effort and enthusiasm as Brandon did in his posts, so looking forward to see your articles and tuts!

  • Fily

    Welcome Ian!

  • Techeese

    *slow clap* to the new captain of the ship

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  • http://www.albruna.nl Martin

    Anyone who is smart enough to marry a dutch woman can’t be ALL bad ;-) (I am dutch). So a big welcome from me!

  • http://fajarsylvana.com Fajar Sylvana

    Welcome Ian :)

  • http://www.adesignlink.com Chad P

    Congrats! I wish you all the best.

  • Gianluca

    “allow me to introduce myself
    I’m a man of wealth and taste”

  • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates
    Author

    Thanks folks, I’m feeling right at home :) (Gianluca: I should have used that! Love the Stones…)

  • http://hood-lord.deviantart.com Kanchan Rai

    Hey welcome Captain!! I hope the same as our fellows above commented!!

    I love this site (as a matter of fact, as soon as webdesigntuts was launched and posts came in pouring, psdtuts+ was left behind to no.2 as my favorite site in the tuts+ network :D ).

    I’d love to see more of the HTML5 and CSS3 things here (yes, they are in nettuts+ but I’d love them here lot better) and Interviews and biographies of Masters in this field or their workflow!

    • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates
      Author

      Hi Kanchan,

      Thanks for your thoughts! You’re right about HTML5 and CSS3 often appearing on Nettuts+ and the likelihood is they will continue to do so. There’s always going to be a bit of cross-over between Nettuts+, Webdesigntuts+ and Wptuts+, but that isn’t a problem. HTML5 and CSS3, from a web designer’s perspective, are definitely on the agenda here :)

  • Georgij

    Welcome!

  • http://seyekuyinu.com Seye Kuyinu

    Welcome! Let’s learn from you!

  • kankuro

    Welcome abroad captain…. by the way… where did brandon go? may i know captain?…

    Waiting to read your contributions….. congrats and welcome once again…. :D

    • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates
      Author

      Thanks Kankuro,

      Brandon’s still around, he’s behind the wheel of the recently launched Wptuts+ (WordPress tuts) and you can expect plenty of collaboration tutorials between us.

      Together Nettuts+, Webdesigntuts+ and Wptuts+ will cover all your web-learning needs!

      • kankuro

        Wow… that sounds cool and interesting…. can’t wait to lunch it…. it seems my timing is perfect… coz i need to learn the wordpress CMS…. thanks for the info captain….

  • India

    Welcome Ian Yates! Looking forward to see where you lead webdesign tuts+. I’m sure it will be great.

  • Sleeman

    Hello Captain , wish all the best , we are looking forward to learn from you .

  • Mick Davies

    Welcome Ian, you can call me Mick! Good luck, I’m sure you will do a great job capt.

  • http://theversatilitygroup.com Diane

    I would like to see real world web design layout tutorials in Fireworks, by a proficient real world designer. I’m sure Tom Green is a great guy, but he and I don’t do the same thing every day. I started using Fireworks many years ago, and moved to Photoshop, and just don’t know how to do all my Photoshop tricks in FW. There would be a lot of benefits, but it would take me twice as long or more. I’d love to do a couple complete site design tutorials to break through that wall.

    • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates
      Author

      Duly noted Diane – thanks for your input!

  • http://mokshasolutions.com Moksha

    Hello Ian I hope you will take webdesign to new height

    Brandon we will sure miss you, thanks for all those tutorials and tips we have learned a lot from you and had lot more to teach us, but things happen and I you got a better job or offer so you moved, take care bye.

  • Rob

    Unrelated but i’m curious, is the article thumbnail picture from Biggles Learns to Fly artwork?

    • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates
      Author

      Well spotted :)

  • http://www.aaronlumsden.com Aaron Lumsden

    A big welcome to you Ian. This blog has been a great resource for tips and inspiration so far and I’m sure you’ll do a great job of maintaining it. All the best in your new post my friend. From a fellow yorkshire man Aaron (Leeds to be precise :-)

    • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates
      Author

      Nice to meet you Aaron, thanks for the welcome! And great portfolio, by the way…

  • Lucas

    I’d love to see more and more begginer level stuff / full sites walk thru.
    I am an art director to be, and I still don’t know if I want to focus on digital or not, and this site is really helping me with some of the digital parts of it <3

  • Lukas

    If your wife is Dutch, does that mean you can speak Dutch too?
    And what other languages do you speak? Just curious.. :)

    • http://www.snaptin.com Ian Yates
      Author

      Hi Lukas :) I speak Dutch (having lived for 4 years in Rotterdam), my Spanish (I spent 6 years in Spain) is OK but not as good as my Dutch, and I’ve just moved to France though don’t yet speak a word of French.

      And no, I don’t have gypsy blood in me..

      • http://www.gentlemedia.nl Ralph Echter

        Ah nice… Rotterdam. My hometown, but living now for 3 years already on Rhodes, Greece.

        Anyways… sorry for the belated welcome, but here you go… Welkom!!! :)

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  • Mario

    You lost me at wanting a mac over pc.