While the year is starting to wind down, November has been a busy month for Audiotuts+. The site has had an increase of 26% of visitors this month, there has been fantastic involvement in the Open Mic posts and great feedback given in our workshops, and we have given away some great resources in our competitions. Thanks for your involvement and support.

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October has been a big month. Envato’s long-standing Flash tutorial site has had its name changed to Activetuts (and the marketplace to ActiveDen), we participated in Blog Action Day with a focus on climate change, and the world remembers Michael Jackson with the movie, This Is It.

At Audiotuts we’ve seen the return of the Workshops (keep them coming, guys), and enthusiastic support for our weekly competition. And you’ve continued to ask for more tutorials on music theory. We’ve heard you. Finally, a new, exciting Tuts+ initiative is just around the corner. Stay tuned.

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In this Best of Tuts+ roundup you’ll learn how to simulate a sniper scope, design and code a flexible website, create an intense movie poster, create a golden vector compass, build a minigolf game with ActionScript 3.0, take sports photos like a pro, create a rocky video game terrain in Blender and get a useful introduction to home recording–among many other things! Let’s take a look.

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September has vanished and October has arrived—the year is slipping away. September has been an exciting month, and a month of change. The Envato Marketplaces have had a major redesign, we re-launched the “Open Mic” series where you get to have a say, and published a pile of tutorials, articles and sample packs.

Here is a summary of the last month, and some thoughts about the next. And stay tuned for an announcement of a new Tuts+ initiative starting this month.

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Here’s our collection of the Top 5 tutorials from each site in the Tuts+ network in August. Whether you want to design and code your first website, layer hip hop drums, design a mixed media masterpiece, illustrate a brain icon, make your own Adobe AIR application, model a lethal combat knife, take gorgeous HDR photos or create a gruesome tracked head wound in After Effects, you’ll find lessons on each – and much more – in this collection.

Hit the jump and learn to the max!

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August has been a big month on Audiotuts. As my first month as editor, it’s been an enjoyable roller coaster ride. I have gotten to know many of our talented tutorial authors, and I’m getting to know you – the Audiotuts community – through your comments and feedback.

This month we celebrated Envato’s third birthday with a bang! Our Tuts+ Birthday Bundle and iMac competition were unbelievably successful, and we had gifts for you too – a Audio Plus Birthday Bonus tutorial for Plus! members, and free Plus! downloads for the rest of you who are wondering what you’re missing out on.

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We’ve collected the top 5 tutorials and articles from each Tuts+ site in June, covering web development, Photoshop, vector art, audio production and music, After Effects, Flash and 3D. Now would be a good time to explore a part of the Tuts+ Network you’ve never seen before!

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Starting this month, Envato (the people behind Tuts+) will be giving away one free professional quality file from each of their marketplaces. This month you can download a gorgeous Modern Web UI Set, an AS2 XML Photo Gallery, a pack of 8 audio logos, a ‘Nice & Clean’ website template and a very cool After Effects Project File. You don’t need to sign up or jump through any hoops. Each file is very easy to download. Hit the jump to grab what you want!

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Here are some of the best tutorials and articles published on the Tuts+ Network over 60 days in March and April. You might be surprised at how much you can learn from a site outside your area of expertise. Why not make it your goal this month to learn a new skill? Whether it’s motion graphics, web development and design, music production, Flash, illustration, logo design or digital art, the Tuts+ network is an excellent place to start the journey.

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We’re closing in on a year now since Envato launched its audio double header of AudioJungle and Audiotuts+ and though it’s taken a while, the growth has been slow and steady! We’ve had some brilliant tutorials here on Audiotuts+ and over on AudioJungle we’ve had some really great loops and tracks. One of the most popular classes of music in the ‘Jungle has been without a doubt ambient and background music. So we’ve rounded up 30 of the best ambient and background loops for you to take a wander through as a sample of the great work over at AudioJungle!

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