The Community
Pixel2life.com is the internet’s largest tutorial index catering to graphic designers, webmasters and programmers, with 45,179 tutorials listed in 88 categories! We also feature a massive and diversified community with 36,861 registered members that participate on our Forums. P2L is also the provider of many additional resources to our members and guests, such as articles, programming script and code gallery, hardware reviews, free graphics and stock photography and much more! You can check out our Resource Center for a complete listing.
What We Do
In operation since December of 2003, Pixel2life has grown to be one of the leading authorities on tutorial indexing and searching, and we continue to add innovative new features and products to make the learning experience that much easier for our users. Our goal is to allow our guests and members find the resources they need as quickly and accurately as possible, while still taking part in the community environment and making new friends and contacts.
Webmasters also benefit from our website by receiving a large initial influx of traffic for every accepted tutorial they submit, and continue to receive traffic from that tutorial as long as it stays in the index. Some websites have received hundreds of thousands of unique visitors just by listing with us! Best of all, it’s totally free, no membership is required, and there’s no requirement to link back to us (although we always appreciate it when folks link to us from their websites).
We hope you enjoy using this site, and we invite you to share your feedback, questions or concerns with us by using our Contact page or dropping a note to us on the Forums.
The People
Pixel2life is run and maintained by a very talented and dedicated group of people that are critical to the site's operation. Below you can find a complete list of our staff and noteable contributors and retired staff that deserve a tip of the hat!
Senior Operations
Donna
Real Name: Donna Role: Lead Forum AdminI first found Pixel2Life back in July of 2004, Dan emailed me asking if he could list tutorials from 13dots, joined the Forums in the same month. In March of 2005 I offered Dan assistance if he needed it, well blow me down that was a fatal mistake lol as next thing I knew he had me straight up as the Main Forum Admin. I've been here ever since and love it.
I look after the well being/organizational structure of the Forum/Staff on a daily/weekly basis, keeps Dan updated on anything important that needs addressing. Manages dead links weekly. Checks new tutorial listings and removes the dead/bad listings before Dan gets to them. Hunts out CBuzz Blurps and Articles. It's a pleasure to be apart of an awesome Team.
Away from Pixel2Life I manage 13dots, administrate at 2 other Forums plus run my own Company inbetween and manage several sites around the web so my days are pretty full and all of this fits perfectly into my personal life and yes I do sleep lol.
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Faken
Real Name: Dan Role: Concept & Design (and a thousand other things)Yes... the monster that has become Pixel2life was my brainchild and now my most satisfying web project to date. As a freelancer since 1996, I've done many corporate sites, studio designs and tons of other graphic related projects. Most of all, I've re-built my personal portfolio site something like 348.34 times and P2L was to be no different. On a whim, I decided to do something completely different, and after some half-assed planning and virtually non-existant concept drawings, P2L the tutorial index and search engine was born. I've been paying for the lack of planning ever since, but hopefully it's relatively transparent to most of you ;)
I work on P2L part time, as my fulltime IT job and family life call upon most of my time, and I tend to take care of administrative issues, managing and accepting submissions (We're at over 15000 submissions if you count tutorials, general content and affiliate applications - and I check each and every one!) and the graphics. Oh and I tell everyone else what they should be doing with an authorative tone so they can't tell I have no clue what I'm doing half the time. Aside from that, I write a few tutorials when I can for my beloved Corel Photopaint, chat on the forums and try to keep up with my MSN IMs.
Outside of P2L, I love to weight train (it's a love hate relationship I assure you), play sports even though that's pretty much died at this point, collect Predator memorabilia, and online gaming.
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Ghost
Real Name: Ehren Role: Forum Dev AdministratorI was first introduced to Pixel2Life back in 2004 when I first started with graphics and Photoshop. Since then, I have developed my own graphics/tutorials site and have partly helped moderate around the forums of Pixel2Life. I joined the team in Novemeber 2005 after making the new forums skin for the latest version of IPB, and hope to be of assistance in the years to come.
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Chaos King
Real Name: Jamie Role: Senior ProgrammerDan's personal whore and friend.
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Real Name: Nicolas Role: Lead Senior ProgrammerI code stuff before Dan gets angry
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Canen Art
Real Name: Jason Role: ModeratorI am a photographer. Photography has always been a form of art that I enjoy. One of my favorite things on P2L is viewing others works of art. I really enjoy when I come across a piece that moves me. P2L has an awesome community. I also enjoy talking and helping out other photographers from here.
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Neil
Real Name: Neil Role: Topsites ModeratorI am the man behind the topsites who answers all your questions and review new websites. I am currently working on my own projects as well as being part of the development team for pixel2life.
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PSGirl
Real Name: Maria Role: ModeratorI've been part of the staff here for some months, and well, what else can I say, I love Pixel2life. Since I discovered it a year ago, it has became one of my favourite sites. As a moderator here, I try to help, giving valuable feedback to member's works and keeping the forums clean. Apart from Pixel2life, I'm staff at 13dots and I currently admin several fansites.
About me, I'm a Spanish girl who really likes graphic (specially fanarts) and web design, and I'm currently studying at university.
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rc69
Real Name: Craig Role: ModeratorIronically enough, I first found this site when I was into graphic design and was learning to use Photoshop, 3D studio max and all those other great programs, only to get into web design/development. The design part lasted long enough to get started making my own site, then I found a true love for programming and simply developing web pages.
Ever since I was offered a position as a mod, I've been helping everybody with their web development issues while learning a bit here and there my self. If I'm online, I'm either helping out around here or working on my own site.
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Shivmoo
Real Name: David Role: Competitions Forum ModeratorI set up and oversee the competitions forum on p2l, with great support from Donna :-)
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Syntex
Real Name: Neil Role: ModeratorBasically i started off as a little pain, causing nothing but trouble on the site, I straightend up after Donna had a talk to me and then when i found a chance for moderator positions I applied and got it.. Been here ever since :D
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Name: Rodimus
Contribution: Many long hours of PHP Coding
Name: Jay
Contribution: Pixel2Life V2 and Twodded
Name: James (Jaymz)
Contribution: Forum Moderator
Name: Mike Holman (Mooey)
Contribution: Forum Moderator
Name: Shao Xia
Contribution: Semi-Retired Senior Programmer - Developer of P2L v1!