Tutorial access frustrations

[Brian Lynn]

The “front door” is a lot better now that the side bar is labled different. It makes more sense just looking at it.

I went looking for Tutorials, and from the Tutorials area, after clicking Tutorials links, there is no filtering… this just doesn’t make sense no matter how slick or cool your “front door” is… although adding the word “tutorial” to the side bar title will help a lot I think.

My sister called me during my lunch hour and had no issues finding the tutorials, but she also didnt start looking until after the “Forum related Articles” title was changed to Tutorials and Articles…

It would be easy to “Slow down to look at what’s on the page” but there is so much advertizing around that I tend to focus on just the center strip of the page… the sidebar is replaced by more ads every where you go…

I still don’t understand why you have an issue with my complaint about not being able to sort or filter from the actual tutorials page itself… Its counter intuitive to think that to search for Tuts that I shouldn’t be in the actual Tut area to do so…

https://library.creativecow.net/search.php?q=%22cinema+4d%22

this is my results for the “cinema 4d” search, with quotes. 7 hits. and my results for no quotes…

https://library.creativecow.net/search.php?q=cinema+4d

3 hits…

I CAN find everything I need to find… but being an interface designed turned video productions/AE guy I just find your interface to be lacking, but only where the tuts are concerned. Its just not as easy, or as slick as it Could be… it works, sure, but I think it would work better if you separate stuff maybe just a tad more…

My sister’s first look at the website took her to Training tab immediately when looking for Tuts… She found them eventually under Library and the fact the sidebar is now called “tutorials/articles” or something similar… appreciate the change!!

I’m not trying to ridicule all the great work you guys do, and the condescending response was uncalled for. I’m not a moron, no need to treat me as such or use 3rd perosn references to imply as such.

[Brian Lynn]

i click your link, and I see 4 hits… where are you getting 39 from?

[Brian Lynn]

All I wanted, from all this, was to try and help you guys by pointing out what I feel is a portion of your website that is difficult to understand, with the final result being a better, quicker interface for all your users, not just me…

I just wanted to try and help you help your community better!

[Brian Lynn]

i thought this:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/1/855476

applied to the website as a whole, not just the underlying programming…

if i was wrong, and you dont want/appreciate the input, then just tell me to STFU and I will go back to watching Tutorials and just get over it!

[Abraham Chaffin]

Feedback is always welcome – see you around the COW.

Abraham

[Ron Lindeboom]

I clicked the link from both Mac and Windows machines in three different browsers and there are a bunch of articles there, many more than four.

One of your links returned over 40 articles for me, the other was almost as many but not quite.

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom

[Brian Lynn]

it’s the “we’re testing you and you failed” comments

wasn’t “testing” you. trying to make the point that I am not the only one with this issue…

this was never about ME. its about your community. if i have the issue, then its likely other do aswhell, so i posted, and sent a friend to confirm for me that i’m not just a ranting crackhead… i was testing myself when i sent friends to your site…

and you’re right, its a burnt topic, one that has been invalidated by the recent changes to a couple lables, that i feel will greatly facilitate your community in finding what’s they want… and its more for the new users, the older established ones are likely used to the format.

Thanks for listening… sorry this became so many posts and all that! i never intended this to get so drawn out!!