It’s been a few months, but there’s finally a new unrequested review up. The victim this time is one ‘nothingbutsong.org/tutorials’; in accordance with my ranty post on bad tutorial sites I have made the review pure critique of the code/tutorials. Most of the rubbish (and yet amusing) ‘banter’ has been taken out in favour of getting to the point. Some quotes, to tease you in…

You point out that the tutorial is “For those of you who have installed similar scripts or have a lot of knowledge about these types of things”: surely someone who has a lot of knowledge on these types of things would not need to visit an amateur tutorial site to figure out how to install WordPress?

I have no idea what a “blog crew” is but I’ll be honest with you, it was this tutorial that irritated me enough to start the review. Specifically this line: “PHP is the next gen of web design”. WHAT?

And in other news, my site & this ‘new’ design were featured in a CSS gallery this weekend. Many thanks to cssmess.com for the compliments regarding my design and content. :)

Finally, happy birthday to my sister who turned 15 today! I can now reveal that I bought her a bright pink Nintendo DS Lite.. and I think from her reaction I can honestly say she likes it. Hoorah for me, for being the best big sister in the world.

Update: I’ve fixed the comment form error on the review/scribblings pages, apologies for the inconvenience. *kicks the out-dated code*

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