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Every so often I dust off my tutorial writing skills (of which I have very few) and cough out a few tutorials.

Customizing Recent Articles – Create your own custom display of recently published articles without using the recent_articles tag.
Textpattern Comment Preview – Add a warning to the comment preview page to remind people that they need to press submit.
Textpattern Sideblog – It’s ridiculously easy to set up a sideblog or even an additional blog off of one Textpattern install. No plugins needed.
Your first Textpattern Theme – I explain in detail how I do things and hope like hell you get it. One of my more popular tutorials.

Sneaking ninja-style past JavaScripts – If you’ve ever been frustrated by the antics of people like the owner of Kao-Ani.com then you’ll appreciate this tutorial.
Easily Resizable Text – Why you should have larger, or easily resizable, text and links on how to do it.
Hiding your HTML from snoops – One way in which you can’t hide your HTML from snoops.
It’s all about links – Why I think that active, visited and hover all need different styling than a:link.
How to properly display HTML – Rather self-explanatory and a bit dated, but still relevant.
Unnecessary CSS Bloat – CSS shorthand and a few rants about the bad practices people use.
Current Navigation – Some current navigation techniques.

Basic Web Design, Ownership, etc., – An older look at some of the things you should remember when creating and maintaining a website. Rather dated.
This is a title that has absolutely nothing to do with the entry it’s on – On why you need to use proper page titles.

Headband Tutorial… sort of – My modifications of the headband pattern Best Band Ever.
How to Effectively Manage Your Time, Use Your To-Do List Correctly and Become a Better Person in Three Days Guaranteed – A parody of the growing number of so-called “productivity sites” popping up on the web.
How To Fight Off A Zombie Invasion – Because you know it’s going to happen at some point.