Steps 2) and 3) of ATARNotes.com expansion: Tutoring + Books

[enwiabe]

We’ve added not one but TWO new sections to ATARNotes and they’re huge!

David is the best web dev ever. Seriously, a talented individual who poured uncountable hours into these projects and we are LUCKY to have him on board! So much so that when our lazy ass layout designer took too long with the layouts HE WENT AND LEARNED THE CSS TO DO IT HIMSELF. But on that note, we will get somebody in to touch up the books layout and possibly tutoring layout but I think he did pretty friggen’ well on his first attempt!

The first is the one you’ve all been waiting for, the tutor listing and review. Please check it out and add your service to the list because we’re CLOSING the advertising board in one week!

When you add your services, the little “score” box next to the subjects you list is for you to put what score you got. That won’t show up until you e-mail [email protected] with proof of your scores (in the form of a scanned statement of results).

The second section is a major book listing and review! Just like tutoring you can browse and review VCE books and study guides. You can rate them as well, so you'll be able to sort books by ratings and see which study guides everyone likes etc.

Hats off to NINA for adding nearly 800 books herself. Manually. I’m surprised she hasn’t gone insane yet! Now, here’s the important thing for us about books: buy your books from our affiliates. We’re affiliated with The Nile, Booktopia and Book Depository (their affiliate system is on the fritz atm so we can’t give you guys a link to that yet unfortunately). All of our books have links to our affiliates to buy them from the websites and if you get your  books from them, they’ll give us a cut! You were going to buy those books anyway, so everybody wins. Please leave all your feedback in this thread, because these are brand new sections and we’ll be relying on your feedback to make them as awesome as possible!

[DavidB3ck]

Jordan does deserve some credit. He did do a lot of the design for tutoring... At least the most important parts... And it is his design system overall. Also, we prefer The Nile if all else (prices, etc) is equal. <3

[Russ]

I saw this half an hour ago and was going to post, but didn't want to ruin the surprise

Good work, looks impressive.

nb, there's also an "add a company" button which you might want to do manually rather than have companies add it themselves?

[enwiabe]

I saw this half an hour ago and was going to post, but didn't want to ruin the surprise

Good work, looks impressive.

nb, there's also an "add a company" button which you might want to do manually rather than have companies add it themselves?

Nope, we can't be responsible for adding every company, so we're encouraging people to add their own services. We'll check them for validity etc.

[ninwa]

When you add your services, the little “score” box next to the subjects you list is for you to put what score you got. That won’t show up until you e-mail [email protected] with proof of your scores (in the form of a scanned statement of results).

The second section is a major book listing and review! Just like tutoring you can browse and review VCE books and study guides. You can rate them as well, so you'll be able to sort books by ratings and see which study guides everyone likes etc.

Hats off to NINA for adding nearly 800 books herself. Manually. I’m surprised she hasn’t gone insane yet! Now, here’s the important thing for us about books: buy your books from our affiliates. We’re affiliated with The Nile, Booktopia and Book Depository (their affiliate system is on the fritz atm so we can’t give you guys a link to that yet unfortunately). All of our books have links to our affiliates to buy them from the websites and if you get your  books from them, they’ll give us a cut! You were going to buy those books anyway, so everybody wins. Please leave all your feedback in this thread, because these are brand new sections and we’ll be relying on your feedback to make them as awesome as possible!

On that note, please PM me if there are any errors you notice (e.g. if I listed something as 3/4 when it's a 1/2 book). Also if a book you need isn't on there the booklists I used were by no means comprehensive.

[DavidB3ck]

I saw this half an hour ago and was going to post, but didn't want to ruin the surprise

Good work, looks impressive.

nb, there's also an "add a company" button which you might want to do manually rather than have companies add it themselves?

Add company button is only available to admins and mods.

[enwiabe]

I saw this half an hour ago and was going to post, but didn't want to ruin the surprise

Good work, looks impressive.

nb, there's also an "add a company" button which you might want to do manually rather than have companies add it themselves?

Add company button is only available to admins and mods.

Oh right I thought he was talking about individuals. Sorry, Russ! Yeah I'm going to go through and add all the big names and after we'll have a spiel in blue up top about e-mailing me if you want your company added.

[REBORN]

That is so cool. Just added a review for psych u3 exams (A+) =P

btw the cover is wrong. The A+ Psych u3 exam book had a yellow cover...like this:

http://www.apluspub.com.au/title/0170180638/2615

[stonecold]

this is sweet!  nice work dave and everyone else.

can we make a page where we can review uni subjects too please!

there are no other sites which have anything decent and the review subject pages seem very popular. 

[ninwa]

That is so cool. Just added a review for psych u3 exams (A+) =P

btw the cover is wrong. The A+ Psych u3 exam book had a yellow cover...like this:

http://www.apluspub.com.au/title/0170180638/2615

Can you give me the link to the book please

[Russ]

can we make a page where we can review uni subjects too please!

This might be a bit too much now, but a "university" category for tutoring would be much appreciated

[REBORN]

That is so cool. Just added a review for psych u3 exams (A+) =P

btw the cover is wrong. The A+ Psych u3 exam book had a yellow cover...like this:

http://www.apluspub.com.au/title/0170180638/2615

Can you give me the link to the book please

http://www.atarnotes.com/?p=books&a=view&ISBN=9780170136976

purple should be replaced with yellow as per the link I previously posted.

[ninwa]

No, I think that's the 2005-2009 version. The yellow one is the 2nd edition and I have added that book now, so you might want to delete your review and copy/paste it

[Hutchoo]

Wow... That is pro. Good work Ninwa!

[REBORN]

No, I think that's the 2005-2009 version. The yellow one is the 2nd edition and I have added that book now, so you might want to delete your review and copy/paste it

Right I get it. Two different versions. Dlt the 2009 one - pointless.

how do I delete my review? :S