This week we’re adding more value across the board at Envato. On Monday Marketplaces commission rates bumped up to 40% – 70%, and today I’m excited to announce that we’re adding triple the value to Premium. As of this post going live, your single Premium membership will now grant you access to every current and future Premium program. So one price for everything!
And to go with the merge and rebranding, we’ve revamped the Premium interface to make it more usable, complete with search, pagination, reordering and affiliate program letting you earn 25% every month on any referrals you send over! There’s no better time to go Premium. Hit the jump to read more about the changes and how they benefit you.
One Premium, Triple the Value
A single Premium membership is now a skeleton key to the entire Tuts+ network. For $19 per month, or $22 per quarter, you will have access to the Premium membership sites for Psd.tuts+, Vector.tuts+ and, launching Premium tomorrow, Net.tuts+. Your membership will also give you access to any other current or future Tuts+ sites that go Premium.
This change is part of our broader strategy to make Tuts+ and Premium a killer source of vocational training. As our network expands the cost to access Premium for each site will steadily decrease. With three Premium sites and a $19 membership, the cost per month for each site is just $3, and will fall further each time a new Tuts+ site goes Premium!
If you haven’t yet made the switch to Premium, there’s no better time to do it. You can find out more here. If you’ve heard enough, you can sign-up here and immediately gain access to all past Premium tutorials and sample files on your exclusive membership site. Your membership also comes with a 100% money-back guarantee on the first month, so there’s nothing to lose.
What if I’m a Combo Member?
There’s no need to do anything at all. Your ‘Combo’ membership will be discontinued and no further payments required. Your remaining Premium membership will give you access to Psd.tuts+, Vector.tuts+ and Net.tuts+ so you’ll still get all that great Premium content – just without the extra price! Collis is going through every subscription by hand today and tomorrow to cancel all combo packs and refund any combo payments made in the last 30 days so that the last month of access is on us!
A Better Premium Interface
Although the content on Premium has always been stellar, we’ll admit we’ve had a bit of a sub-standard Premium website. Well no more, because along with our rebranding we’ve got a new and improved Premium system for you to use, take a look at some screenshots:
Earn 25% Monthly on Referrals!
And last but not least, we are officially launching our Affiliate Program today. You’ll be able to earn 25% of the monthly payments of any member you refer for the first year. That means as a referrer you can build up a nice, steady, monthly income through a proven product that literally thousands of people use and enjoy. And with today’s announcements, that Premium program is even better value for money than ever!
You can grab the full terms and conditions here as well as information on how to sign up, and lots of banners!
Development Stuff!
Finally because lots of our readers are into web development, you may be interested to know how we built the new Premium and Tuts+ sites. Thanks to the hard work of our obscenely talented web dev Derek Herman, the Tuts+ site is in fact three sites meshed together to look like it’s just one.
When you first arrive you’re looking at a WordPress installation, hooked up with a customized jQuery dashboard homepage based on the Net.tuts+ tutorial Mimic iGoogle. Then when you sign in, you’re using a hacked up version of aMember, a PHP membership script you can pick up for $180. AMember provides all the membership, account, and affiliate functionality. Finally once you go to see the Premium content, you’re into a third WordPress installation, customized to allow sorting and searching of items (which are actually Posts).
So there you have it, a study in hacking together open source software and off-the-shelf PHP products, then coating it all with a smooth front-end, Tuts+ style 
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Aww yeah! Just got on the site and noticed something was diffrent, stroleld through all the new stuff and then noticed this post. It looks fantastic! Get a hell of a lot ore for your money now!
Well done TUTS, If this wont satisfy people, I don’t know what will.
Me want free stuff,me be pirate!
looking at this page makes me want to own a plus account.
Ooh, nutbolts.. You just might have convinced me to join the plus force..
Yaaaaaaaaaaay!
WOW! i will be PLUS!
for this i will expand my plus to one year. just make so much more sence.
Awesome, Awesome, Awesome. Period.
Oh, and well done!! lol, congrats on the new linky-network-ness of sites, its always been fantastic and now for plus members, its even better! looking forward to the future for you guys, cool to see people with obvious talent do well.
It would be nice if the logo’s for each subsection on the dashboard were clickable
Weee! xD
Okay i log in and all i see is files to download and read tutorial, i dont see my Quartely section with the amount and dates.. Is either not there or i am clicking all over and not knowing this new layout, thx.
thats it im signing up now
should of done this long time ago but this pushed me over the egde
I think is the best idea i,ve never eared ^^
Awesome! Love the direction and re-brand. All hail the Tuts+ empire!
hai skellie,
i wish to become a plus member..
and also one doubt about that???
What is the downloading limit per day/month for the users there!??????
meanwhile i love/like your avatar
@lawrence77: There’s no download limit at all
Thanks, I like my avatar too. Yours is pretty cute!
@donic: Look up the top of the design and you’ll see a ‘Your Account’ button between ‘Dashboard’ and ‘Plus Content’.
This is awesome!
Question though: Say you add the files to AE tuts, will there be an additional cost or will it stay at $9?
Quality.
I just hope that we will have many free tutorials still, since the “plus” of this site is being more emphasized.
I like it much, love also the re-branding of all tutsite
@ David: The membership will always stay at a flat $9 (or $22 per quarter), even when we add other sites — including Ae.tuts+
Eventually it will cost less than $1 per site, per month.
you just made me a very happy girl!!
Yay! More and more goodies from PT! Cant really stop impressing us, dont you?
wow, I like it ^^
Nice, ive been supporting this site for some time now, and this is awsome!! Tnx guys, your site rules!!!
You guys are really coming along! The improvements are definitely worth taking a gander at the whole plus membership deal.
I especially like the fact that you’re so open to your users, that you actually discuss how the new tuts+ was developed.
Great work guys!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
wow, i have to pay to make your website usable?
what’s up with that? I’d rather be paying for content and good quality tuts, not to make your site work in a way that it should already. just my 2 cents
thanks skellie!
hai skellie?
two more doubts?
1. what is the font you used in the logo now as well as previous version?
2. where is Collis?
Yeeehaa! Now I’m definitely getting me membership after my exams!! Plus, when is FLATUTS starting? Tell me it’s before Summer or atleast in beginning of summer?!?!
It’s amazing how much this company has grown. Cheers!
Great site , great company i’ve virtually learned designing from here ….keep it real!
I loved that! I wanna buy a plus membership with “PSDTUTS” + “AETUTS” + “VECTORTUTS” is this possible?
We can customize the packages?
Thanks!!! =)
awesome! you guys really rock! I’m so happy to be a subscriber! so excited to know such good news! Thanks, dude.
@Isis: An Ae.tuts+ subscription does not exist at the moment. Furthermore, all the subscriptions are the same, everyone gets all the content that is available in the plus area for $9/m regardless of which site the content came from. So to answer your question, no you cannot customize the package because there are only two option.
$9 per month
- OR -
$22 quarterly (every three months)
I said that before. but the tut plus logo just looks like the flag from switzerland.. Don’t know if that should be like this…
now reader avatar is very cool!
skille are you there???
you happily answer my first question?
then now you stay quite
thanks, Derek!
=)
Im planning to subscribe the tuts, Whether tuts will automatically take money from my account for every month or Payment is with my control
Awesome work guys!
I may just be jumping on the “plus” bandwagon now!
Yup… This is what it took for me to join… Now to wait for my paycheck… (I can’t wait for aetuts+!!)
so coooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllll