Webdesigntuts+ Is Joining the Tuts+ Premium Family!
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Webdesigntuts+ Is Joining the Tuts+ Premium Family!

on Apr 3rd 2012 with 24 comments

Today we’re proud to announce that Webdesigntuts+ will be starting to offer Tuts+ Premium tutorials, contributing even more amazing content to this fantastic project! Membership costs $19/month, and gives you access to high-end web design tutorials, educational courses, eBooks, and much more.

Read on to find out more about the first Webdesigntuts+ Premium tutorials, and some of the other awesome benefits of being a Tuts+ Premium member!

Additional High-End Web Design Tutorials

Several times a month, Tuts+ Premium members will get access to high-end web design tutorials taught by industry professionals. These tutorials go above and beyond the free content on the site, going into greater depth regarding topics already covered on the site or covering more cutting edge technologies and techniques.

We guarantee that you’ll learn something new – literally! We offer a full money-back guarantee on your membership for the first month.

The new web design category on Tuts+ Premium will be regularly updated with new web design content several times a month. Here’s a sneak peek at the first tutorial we have available:

Power A Facebook Page Using WordPress

In this Premium tutorial I’ll be showing you how you can power a Facebook page using WordPress as a CMS.

I’ll take you through the design styles and coding, before showing you how to install and implement the whole thing into Facebook with ease.

Awesome Educational Courses

Would you like to learn how to design your first website in 30 days? Or learn the language of the web, HTML & CSS? Or get a little more advanced, and start using CSS3? Or maybe use Photoshop to create concept art? Our new Tuts+ Premium courses will show you how. We’ll be adding new courses several times per month.

To get a feel for the high quality of these courses, check out our free course on HTML & CSS.

Access to 800+ Other Tutorials

Tuts+ Premium members don’t just get access to web design content. Your membership unlocks tutorials and courses from all the different Tuts+ sites. You’ll find hundreds of tutorials on design, web development, audio and music, After Effects, Flash and RIAs, computer graphics, and photography.

With Tuts+ Premium content on ten different creative and technical topics, there’s never been a better time to learn something new!

Plus… Over 30 eBooks!

Not content with web design tutorials and courses? Your $19 Tuts+ Premium membership also gives you free access to over thirty professional eBooks from Rockable Press, Smashing Magazine, and other publishers. These will help to sharpen your web design skills, and teach you techniques in completely new areas:

Starting to feel like a good deal? We certainly think so!

Find Out More & Join Now!

We think you’ll really love everything that Tuts+ Premium has to offer, and you can find out more by taking the tour. If you decide that it’s for you, it only takes a few seconds to become a member. Don’t forget, we offer a 30 day money-back guarantee!

We look forward to sharing our amazing Premium web design tutorials with you!

David Appleyard is davidappleyard on Themeforest
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  • http://www,learneveryday.net arifur rahman

    Hello, David Appleyard

    I like weddesing tuts. Is you are willing to publish more depth of the wedsite desing using photoshop and then html css with video. In video you will show how to design a world class blog template and then html css. It will be good for all .

  • John

    When will subscribers get access to the book “Getting to Know SEO”?

  • http://laranzjoe.blogspot.com lawrence77

    wow, this is just awesome.

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  • Rich

    Well there goes another free resource :(

    Let’s see if you do as you say and be adding new courses several times per month, as at the moment the Premium Section is seriously lacking in value for money for what is released a month and is still not worth the price hike to $19.

    Why not have two subscription schemes?

    One where they have access to the books and keep the monthly payment at $19 as not everyone wants the books and not many get added per month anyway.

    Two where they have no access to the books and charge them $9 per month like many asked for before but was promptly ignored and never gained a proper response from Staff. Pffft

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

      Hi Rich, comment about subscription types duly noted, but aside from that, “There goes another free resource?!” Webdesigntuts+ is, and will continue to be, 100% free, posting an average of twenty free tutorials per month.

      We’ll be publishing several Premium tutorials per month in addition to that.

  • Ariel

    Really good news, Tuts+ Premium was really lacking some Web Design tutorial and courses.
    By the way, the Typography and 30 days to your first web design courses were great! Looking forward to see some more

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

      Great to hear! I hope you enjoy what we have planned :)

  • BoxCutterCarl

    Roughly translated: All the good tutorials worth doing will now be premium-only. Wouldn’t be so bad if a Tuts+ membership were still $9/month.

  • Mons87

    Good New , hope to see course for Adi Purdila on tuts plus

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

      Funny you should say that.. :)

      • Frank

        Hi Ian,

        Indeed funny. First off all i completely agree with Rich.
        Second i hope that not all of the bigger video’s from Adi will be premium tutorials.
        I should consider a subscription if its like $9 like Rich suggest, Simply because i can’t afford to spend $19 each month. Isn’t it an option to create a kind of prepaid subscription? So you can take a subcription for one month at the time. That way people can decide to take up the prepaid month if they see a premium tutorial they would like the see/read

        Anyway, thanks for all the great work you guys do!

        Frank

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

          I don’t know why everyone’s panicking so much – do you see the other Tuts+ sites publishing their quality content on Premium and pumping out rubbish on the free sites?!

          The subscription of $19 (or $15 per month if you subscribe for a year) is a great deal when you consider the volume of resources made available. It’s intended for those who are really serious about taking their skills to a professional level, at which point they can use them to earn money – we’re simply talking investment and return.

          • Frank

            Ian,

            I want to offer you my apologies. Reacting to quick. I was simply not thinking before writing.
            I really want to take my skills to a higher level but that’s still possible even if i don’t take a subscription. All the free sites offer enough quality tuts to achieve that.

            Thanks for reminding me. Lesson learned :-)

            Best regards,

            Frank

          • Amie

            “I don’t know why everyone’s panicking so much – do you see the other Tuts+ sites publishing their quality content on Premium and pumping out rubbish on the free sites?!”

            Yes! Exactly! That is EXACTLY what is happening lately in the Tuts+ sites. Everytime I see a new tut appear on the site, my heart starts pumping and racing and I want to hyperventilate because it looks like an awesome tut, only to be dissapointed when I overlooked it said PREMIUM on the title. Then I’m left with the (albeit very well written and documented) but short and “beginner” tutorials. And by beginner, I mean, they are not as involved as I’d like them to be to give it that extra professional touch, although ya’ll have free intermediate to advanced tuts. They are simply too short!

            “It’s intended for those who are really serious about taking their skills to a professional level, at which point they can use them to earn money.”

            So you are saying that does who don’t pay a monthly subscription aren’t serious about taking it professionally? Maybe there are those who don’t have the money yet because they aren’t getting freelance work for whatever reason or who are struggling for jobs. I understand that you guys work hard and you want to consider a return on your own investment. But had ya’ll kept the fee at $9, I would’ve eventually considered a subscription when I was more economically disposed. $15 for a year just ain’t buying me. This getting just too expensive. I can see all of the complete “days” development tuts, from beginning to end, going into the subscription bin.

            Thanks for the work however.

          • Amie

            On another note: I didn’t know until today that Tuts+ was now $19/mo. The staff should have found other ways to make the money they need to keep the site running instead of penalizing its members. Need more subscribers? Extend your benefits to colleges and universities across the world. Hit up businesses by creating packages in email blasts that’ll extend your presence. You’d be surprised to know how many agencies don’t know about the benefits of training their employees with the Tuts+ sites.

        • Valstorm

          “I don’t know why everyone’s panicking so much – do you see the other Tuts+ sites publishing their quality content on Premium and pumping out rubbish on the free sites?!”

          Yes.

          Here’s why:

          My skill set allows me to utilise the whole spectrum of the Tuts+ sites, and since the overhaul/removal of the Tuts+ portal page at the tail end of last year (with the 5 latests posts from each sub domain) and the introduction of a ‘better’ premium site – I’ve noticed a dramatic fall in the overall quality and quantity of the free tutorials offered by the Tuts+ network as a whole.

          Envato have a great thing going for them, a solid community and what I believe, *was* the greatest free resource of web tutorial content available online. Sadly as a company grows and builds upon success, money often gets in the way and becomes more important than the source of the success, people have to be paid at the end of the day.

          Freely available, quality content is what attracts a user base for online tutorials in my opinion and the trust that the quality content will keep on coming is what retains the user base. I think that if people want to or have the means to pay for their education they will buy books or take classes; the fact that it’s freely available through a community online is appealing and rewarding in it’s own right.

          Personally it makes no difference to me either way, I’ll hunt down the knowledge I need, either free or by purchase, but I cant help thinking Envato are shooting themselves in the foot with this new business model and alienating the bulk of their userbase.

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

            OK. I’ll say this just once more :)

            At Tuts+ we strive to publish the best freely available educational material on the web, within our sector. Across all eleven sites, we do so on an almost daily basis – that’s one heck of a free resource!

            Publishing Premium content has absolutely no detrimental effect on the quality of our free tutorials – if you disagree then I’d love to hear specific examples, because solid feedback helps us maintain quality. Drop me a line: webdesign[at]tutsplus[dot]com.

            Envato is a company which employs (directly and indirectly) hundreds of people – if you include the marketplace authors then it provides income for thousands. That’s our goal; to help people learn and earn, online. It’s a business. It generates revenue for all involved. Without doing so it wouldn’t exist. You can turn your nose up at the business model, but without earning cold, hard cash, we can’t provide you with free resources.

  • Rasmus Willemoes

    When will Envato open up for buying Tuts+ Premium, from the marketplace.tutsplus????

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

      Well, we probably won’t…

      • Rasmus Willemoes

        Why not?

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

          I can’t give too much away, but we have big plans for the Tuts+ network and that includes the way it interacts with Premium content. The Tuts+ marketplace won’t necessarily fit into the platform as a whole. No final decisions have been made yet; the whole Envato team will shortly be meeting together in Malaysia, after which there’ll be plenty to report!

  • Wouter

    Does a tutsplus membership give me access to premium tuts for one discipline only, or across disciplines? For example, if I subscribe to this, can I also view the course ’30 days to photoshop’?

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

      You get access to everything! Read more here..

  • http://think360studio.com/ Think360studio

    Totally agree Ian yates. No other Tuts+ sites publishing their quality content premium like Webdesigntuts+ which offers tutorials , Educational courses and many more. Could you share more tutorails or articles on these stuff.