- Creation date: 2006
- Technologies: PHP + MySQL + HTML
Old website (created in 2006 abandoned since 2009) that I wrote in PHP at the age of fifteen. And by "wrote", I mean that I adapted a PHP template for a simple website to offer software downloads that I got from a forum, as I was way too lazy to sit down and follow proper tutorials in order to learn PHP (instead of "lazy", they'd probably call it ADHD nowadays, and they'd probably be right, but I digress).
Luckily, copying code and changing it to see what happens somehow teaches you how to code. Not so luckily, though, you end up learning at an embarrassingly low pace when compared to being taught through classes or tutorials (I feel like I learnt more in a programming class in uni than in years of "self-teaching"). Anyway, enough about me, back to the website.
This was a website in Spanish that would offer links to free tutorials classified into different categories, such as programming, graphic design, and more.
It definitely wasn't the prettiest (I was really bad at design back then!), but thanks to a careful SEO (and some luck), it received plenty of visitors and generated a pretty decent revenue. In fact, it hit a mark of more than 15,000 real visitors in one single day several times – it could have probably reached higher peaks, but the servers would start to go down when reaching that number of visitors. By 2009, there were more than 17,000 registered users, 15,000 of which were actually validated via confirmation email.
Unfortunately, at some point Google changed their search algorithm, rendering the SEO of this site obsolete and causing the visitor count to plummet overnight (totally fair, honestly, as my profitable SEO techniques were questionable to say the least!).
I never created an official V2, but TutoTutoriales.com was the spiritual successor of this website.
