Announcing public release of Tuxtorial

[Anirudh Sanjeev]

Hello,

I am very happy to announce the release of my first product -
Tuxtorial. Those of you who were present at the first meetup might
remember the concept - it essentially makes creating and sharing
tutorials for Linux very simple. You can see it for yourself at:

http://tuxtorial.com

Please feel free to provide any suggestions and feedback. I would also
appreciate if you could share this with your Linux-user friends.

Thank you for your time,
Anirudh

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[Charles John]

Looks quite pretty, Anirudh. Great job! I love the fact that you have a section for copy pastable code right below a given slide.

Some feedback if you're interested:

1) The "Create New" link is broken. Says 'Server Error in / Application' (as of this time of typing)

2) The "Get Started" button has jagged edges... (not a big deal, but it does steal the thunder.)

3) The slideshow on the get started section could have one of those [][][][] selectors to go

  back to a previous slide instead of waiting for it to come around.

4) The previous/next buttons on a tuxtorial's paginator could be more prominent. It was 

not obvious to me that the paginator was at a slide level or a tutorial level.

Cheers,

Charles

[Nishant Soni]

Awesome Stuff !!. Looking at the already created tutorials makes a lot of sense.

Feedback: The individual tutorial pages should be probably reworked from a usability perspective. Example:http://tuxtorial.com/learn/installing-wordpress-f92/1 . The most important elements I feel are the image, paginators, and the accompanying text. Typically slideshows have them with the accompanying text on the right column with the paginators just below. (eg. http://www.rediff.com/sports/2000/sep/29par2.htm ). The current setup places focus (in order) on the image, then the tutorial overview, tools and details which is slightly confusing.It should probably be image, accompanying text and then paginators.

Very impressive stuff still !.

bests,

Nishant

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[Anirudh Sanjeev]

Nishant,

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Nishant Soni <nishan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> important elements I feel are the image, paginators, and the accompanying
> text. Typically slideshows have them with the accompanying text on the right
> column with the paginators just below.
> (eg. http://www.rediff.com/sports/2000/sep/29par2.htm ). The current setup
> places focus (in order) on the image, then the tutorial overview, tools and
> details which is slightly confusing.It should probably be image,
> accompanying text and then paginators.

Thank you for taking the time to check out the site and give feedback.
I had made navigation low priority and focussed on smashing bugs
instead. I think this is a very valid problem you've highlighted and
it'll get my full attention now.

Anirudh

[Anirudh Sanjeev]

Hi Charles,

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Charles John <char...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Some feedback if you're interested:

Please! Thank you :)

> 1) The "Create New" link is broken. Says 'Server Error in / Application' (as
> of this time of typing)

Oops. this was supposed to be something else. I didn't know that such
a high priority link was 404'ing. Will get to it right away.

> 2) The "Get Started" button has jagged edges... (not a big deal, but it does
> steal the thunder.)

Yeah. I'm not very good at gimp. you'll be amazed to know what a
surprisingly small amount of effort I put into the landing page
elements.

> 3) The slideshow on the get started section could have one of those [][][][]
> selectors to go
>   back to a previous slide instead of waiting for it to come around.

Right. I was not sure what model to use in a situation like this. Let
me experiment and post here so you guys can provide more feedback.

> 4) The previous/next buttons on a tuxtorial's paginator could be more
> prominent. It was

Right, this is top priority right now. Will fix it and let you guys know.

[Abhishek Mishra]

Anirudh,

In a lot of mac screencast apps, I notice this good feature - before they vanish into the tray, they flash a keyboard shortcut (usually a complex one) to bring it back and finish the recording.

I'm not running gnome/kde these days, so I could hardly try it out after I made it to start recording activities. Would be nice for some of us who run minimal WMs to finish recording via keyboard shortcut.

Abhishek