After some thought, I am beginning work on my tutorial again

[Mr Initial Man]

http://coachrandom.furtopia.org/tutorial/

That's what I have so far. Please comment not only on the looks of the site, but also its effectiveness, clarity, and accuracy.

[roondog]

Its a bit plain, try adding some color and backgrounds to liven it up. I had a quick look through the tutorials and they seem quite well written and easy to follow. I would suggest rather than having all the scrolling everywhere try having a smaller font and organising the page so everything is immediately there for the user to see.

[Terrorke]

some visuals will do some wonders

[Mr Initial Man]

@Terrorke: I suck at graphics, but I'll consider it.

@Roondog: I wanted this to be really simple and easy to follow. I don't want it to have a ton of bright colors, since that may turn some people off. I was hoping to go for an air of "professional but friendly" if that makes sense.

[KDLA]

- You might contain the content text, so it doesn't stretch 100% of the content space. I'm looking at this using my widescreen laptop, and the line lengths are quite long.
- The "On the Tutorial" part seems quite unnecessary (if but sort of self-aggrandizing). You might, instead, put a section for additional resources, such as the W3C, validators, recommended html mark-up programs and such.
- Some of the topics are quite sketchy (I'm assuming you've not finished this yet; I was surprised that the DOCTYPE section just told the viewer to use Strict, without any real reason.) If you choose to only provide limited info., you might provide some resources for further information. Tutorials should not just tell the viewer What to do, but also Why.

KDLA

[Mr Initial Man]

- You might contain the content text, so it doesn't stretch 100% of the content space. I'm looking at this using my widescreen laptop, and the line lengths are quite long.

I did put margins into the content area. I'm sorry, I'm not quite sure what you're getting at.

- The "On the Tutorial" part seems quite unnecessary (if but sort of self-aggrandizing). You might, instead, put a section for additional resources, such as the W3C, validators, recommended html mark-up programs and such.

Yeah, I agree. I'll do that. Hmmm... HTML Mark-Up programs. How does HTML Kit and Crimson Editor sound?

- Some of the topics are quite sketchy (I'm assuming you've not finished this yet; I was surprised that the DOCTYPE section just told the viewer to use Strict, without any real reason.) If you choose to only provide limited info., you might provide some resources for further information. Tutorials should not just tell the viewer What to do, but also Why.

Good point. I'll work on the wording of why to use the Strict Doctype.

[KDLA]

I meant not that there isn't a nice amount of white space, but that the text lines are too long. When a line length goes over, say 50em, then it makes reading the text more difficult because the eye has further to travel from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. Your content section is about 67em wide (because it stretches to accommodate my wide screen).

Reference: http://webstyleguide.com/type/lines.html

You might contain the text by applying some CSS:

p, li {width: 45em;}


Just a suggestion - ;)
KDLA

[Mr Initial Man]

I'll keep that in mind. For now, I'm going to remove ALL formatting from my tutorial, to help me write it without distractions such as styling.