New Author Tips

Are you a respected author?

Have you ever wondered how many of these graphics groups choose tutorials to teach new techniques to their members? Most of them have a set of standards they follow when they are scouting for tutorials. Even as an individual, I use most of these standards when I choose to follow tutorials on my own. I also tend to avoid sites where I disagree with or cannot follow the usage guidelines. I have no quarrel with those authors- it is their right to set their own terms and my right to avoid their site if I wish to.

Respected Authors:

Have their copyright statement on every page.
Have a reasonable Terms of Service/Use statement that is easy to understand and rarely, if ever, changes.
Have an email contact address on every page.
Have working links on the pages.
Have all images showing properly on the pages.
Have no disclaimers on their sites about the site content.
Have testers check the tutorials for problems.
Provide pages that look good in the current popular browsers (IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Opera).
Provide a title using the HTML title code so their page is properly named in bookmark files.
Provide all supplies or working links to legitimate sources for filters, etc unless they have written permission from the true copyright holder.
Provide readable settings in all screen shots.
Provide original ideas for tutorials rather than just editing the work of others.
Provide fast loading pages.
Provide pages with high contrast between the text and backgrounds.
Provide only the work they own copyrights on or have copyright holder permission to provide on their site. (fonts, music, page sets, images, links, html code, etc.)
Provide a completed image of the tutorial at the top of the first page.
Provide reasonable help and support to those following their tutorials.
Provide reasonable support and help to their fellow authors.
Provide support and help for new community members.
Obey the TOS/U and copyright laws of other's work in whatever forms.

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Using my tutorial, means you agreed to these usage terms. All page elements, tutorials, and explanatory and sample graphics belong to me except where otherwise noted.