Ask HN: Review our website thinktutorial.com

Very nice clean design, though I was confused as to if the banner at the top was an ad for another company, or if that was explaining your service, as it of course was listing for Lydia.com with the tagline 'what do you want to learn today'.

I suggest that a big banner add there won't do as much for you as describing your service.

That brings me to the second point. You've got all the tutorials nicely lined up at the top of the page, but no real navigation with the exception of the search box. No description of your service until below the fold.

Personally, for a start-up, I'd like to see a description at the top of the page.

Your description says 'Think Tutorial is a database of simple...'.

I wouldn't use the word database as that is a technical description of how you're built. You want to give the user the reason for why you exist, not what you are.

Having the bebo stuff on the front-page doesn't make much sense to most people unless you are in an area where bebo is popular (I have no idea where that is) based on your tag cloud, I think you would be better off with microsoft excel or some tutorials like that.

I think the microsoft office icons are more recognizable than the bebo.

a) Design is nice and clean. kudos for that. b) You could add the application tags below each tutorial icon. Currently you have bebo tutorials on your front page, I do not know the bebo logo so I had to click your view-friends-profile tutorial to see it was for bebo. c) Speed and snappiness for search and tags could be improved. d) Are the tutorials on the front page your best tutorials ? e) Adding some customer testimonials as they come in would be nice.

Overall pretty good idea and execution. Blogspam means that google queries for technical queries is pretty broken now,and something like this which offers reliable reputable howtos within a niche might get user uptake.

Clickable Link: http://www.thinktutorial.com