Tutorial Seek Development Blog

It is every webmaster’s dream to get their tutorials known to the world, but it has always been a hassle to submit their tutorials into an index maybe because there is simply not enough time or the large amount of tutorials to submit. That dream has been taken further, introducing automated tutorial submission.

Tutorial Seek is a Tutorial Indexing Search Engine. A website that has an index, or directory of tutorials in which are crawled by a spider named the Seek Bot. Given websites that are submitted by the webmasters of the tutorial community, the Seek Bot will visit those websites, and search them for tutorials in which to add to its own database. The entire process, which is done automatically - is what makes this idea revolutionary. Webmasters now don’t submit tutorials one by one as they release new ones that are written, but their entire site.

All of the popular Tutorial Indexes that are out there on the World Wide Web have all the same basic concept of how they work and deliver content to the public crowd. They have the same environment and the same theme of obtaining content. This way is solely relying on the webmasters to submit their tutorials and articles manually into the tutorial index. Using the idea of a tutorial spider is what makes Tutorial Seek totally different than any other tutorial based website on the web.

Being a web developer for almost 2 years, I have gained a lot of knowledge and insight of the most popular and up-to-date programming languages used for server environments. I know that developing such a site would be a challenge, but I was confident that it was possible, and I was driven to deliver that final product for my own personal project.
During the development phase of this project, and even during the beta testing of the website, I have had to find times in which the project would relate to at least three of the five areas of interaction. The final three that I seem to fit best would have been Approaches to Learning – which includes new concepts, techniques and actions necessary for me to complete the project in a timely manner, Community Service – raising the level of knowledge by providing a free learning service to the web development and graphical arts community and Homo Faber – being the production of the website, from the ground up.