just another note on the matter of your tutorials. i dont want to seem derogatory or interrigative, but your tutorials aren't so much tutorials as again; code snippets...
out of the 3 html tutorials you have,
this one is the only one that is actually a tutorial, and it's bordering on the edge...
this one and
this one give me the impression that you have just thrown together some 20 second content to fill space, let's look at the word tutorial.
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adj.
Of or relating to tutors or a tutor.
n.
Something that provides special, often individual instruction, especially:
1. A book or class that provides instruction in a particular area.
2. Computer Science. A program that provides instruction for the use of a system or of software.
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a tutor is somebody who teaches a subject to somebody else, or a group of people. a tutorial is like an article that will teach somebody about something. your examples, including
this one and
this one do not explain anything, somebody comes to your website to learn PHP and they see "easy, upload forms" so they think hmm, maybe i can learn how to upload things! they go into your tutorial, and all they see is "cut and paste this here and that there". that doesn't teach them anything, and on another note, that upload code won't even work! nowhere have you told the user that they must first
create the folder to upload into, and then
chmod it to 777, because otherwise they get some nice little PHP errors.
you have instructed the user and cut and paste that html code, which you haven't bothered to put a linebreak in where the next instruction is, so they cut and paste "<input type="submit" value="Upload!"> 2) Create a new file and copy the below code and save it as upload.php" and the second step appears next to their button, what do they do now? they might even not see the instruction and cut and paste the PHP code too...
the two html tutorials you have (not including the background sound one) are the same, they just provide some code but don't explain what it's doing. what is an iframe? what is css? what does that css code you gave them even do? you really do need to work on them to actually make them tutorials... and i'm sure that you have the knowledge to be able to do it, so why not take some of the time you spend advertising and put it into making your tutorials better? heck, you haven't even bothered to give your tutorials a page title or any text formatting, i even saw one of them that said "sgihgoiwehtoiehn" or something. not very appealing.
i dont know if your css code you exampled would work or not, but you are missing a whole lot of semi-colons that would definately prevent it from validating, and once again, the user will come along, put all that code into a css file thinking "hmm, what will it even do?" then they run their script and its exactly the same... "fat lot that did". explain how to attach the stylesheet to (x)html documents. your iframe code wouldn't work either, you specify all this positioning, if you are just going to give them code for an iframe, don't position it aswell, and if you are leaving the name attribute empty, why confuse them by even putting it there? btw the reason it wouldnt work is because you've got style="blah blahblah... and no end ", so it runs on into the next few html attributes...
i don't even know if half of your photoshop tutorials are actually tutorials... "make a canvas like this, do this filter, do this and this and you're finished". how about explaining what you are doing along the way? (i know you didnt write most of the photoshop tutorials so this isn't directed at you personally).
this isn't really constructive criticism on your layout, but more towards your content. once again, this isn't meant to be derogatory or seem like im "flaming" you, i'm just pointing out some things that might help you get more traffic...
have a good day