We added a JavaScript to the website which warnes IE6 users for the browser. This JavaScript comes from Savethewebdevelopers.com, currently they have a campain to stop the use of IE6.

We web-developers need to stand firm against the use of IE6, it has had it's time. Even though I still don't like IE7, it's better than IE6! You can support the project by adding the following line to your website:

<script src="http://www.savethedevelopers.org/say.no.to.ie.6.js"></script>

What would you like to see?

Combined Minds v2.0 is online for a while now, and it already was a big success. But in a few months we’ll go to a new level. With CM 2.1 you will be able to experience much more.

Some nice things to say is that we’ll go more to the community feeling. So you will be able to fill in a very detailed profile, and also avatars. (who doesn’t love them!)

Also we’ll be launching a new system, the snippet system. This means that you can all share your code, whether it’s PHP or JavaScript, it’s all welcome.

But of course, your will is our command. What would you really like to see on our website? Please annoy us with your ideas! All thoughts are welcome.

Our website is growing rapidly, therefore we are in need of people to join our crew.

Combined Minds started over a year ago, and still rising with about 10% of visitors every month. To keep rising we need your help. We write tutorials, sometimes tutorials that are read thousands of times a month.

To continue growing we’re searching web developers of all size to join the crew. There are not many restrictions, just be cool and know what your talking about. We would like both front-end and back-end specialists.

So if you are a Photoshop professional or you love to dig in some hardcore programming? Write to us! You can contact me (Jim) via jim [at] combined-minds.net, or Graham via graham [at] combined-minds.net.

We’re proud to announce that we’re going to create our own tutorial tracker. A website where tutorial writers can add their tutorials on to be listed on the website.

Our website will be revolutionary for webmasters, we won’t yet reveal our idea’s but I can tell you that adding a website to our tracker will be the simplest you’ve ever seen. Also a great feature is that the tutorials will be listed immediately and doesn’t need approval. Bad tutorials will be removed (and banned) after they already were listed. This makes it much more efficient for us all.

The reason for this tracker is very simple. The biggest tracker online is run by a bunch of noobs. CM adds tutorials often, but some perfectly fine tutorials just aren’t approved without wanting to tell us why after we’ve emailed for arguments.

The bomb really exploded when adding the PHP basics PART 1 tutorial. The first moderator gave it 4 out of 5 which is quite high rating for a pending tutorial. But the second mod gave it a 1 so the rating went to 2.0! So this means that the biggest tutorial tracker of the web is run but a group who doesn’t even know how to rate tutorials. A 1 and 4 (out of 5) is just too much of a difference!

This happened quite some times already, so you can understand that this was just too much. Now we’ll work with some other trackers and become the biggest available!

Who doesn’t use them? Pastebin’s where you can dump all sorts of code. Just uploaded, Combined Minds is a pastebin richer. The bin is in a Beta stage, so errors can occur.

The bin uses the well known GeSHI system, so it supports most common programming languages.

You can find the bin at paste.combined-minds.net.

We just registered a new IRC channel, because the last channel was located at our own server. But because of some circumstances the server left the air. So we are back to the public servers.

You can now find us at Freenode.net. We chose this network because it’s very professional, not a thousand little game-clans, no porn and no warez. The channel we’ve registered is #combined-minds.

Most of the time you’ll find at least Jim or Graham there as channel owners who can help you with allot of stuff. The only thing you should think about is that big problems should be added to the forums please.

Hope to see you in the channel!

Maybe some of you already noticed, CM has a forum. At these boards you can ask questions, solve them, but also discuss about all kinds of things. The forums are online for two weeks now, waiting for you to post your content.

The forum supports all major bb code, so you can post links, images, text decorations. And of course smileys! For smileys we use the tweakers.net ones, these are clean and nice to look at.

One new sub-forum is the projects forum. Here you can post your projects, if its just a website, or maybe even a huge open source system. You may post it al..

But you cannot only show your stuff there, you can search for people to help starting a new project. Combined Minds will kickoff and start a project soon. A project written in the PHP language, but will also need graphic artists, and javascript experst. What the project will be is still unknown, but be sure you check out the forums regularly, because an open source project can be a hell-lot of fun! :)

As you can see the new Combined Minds is online. Now with many more features and options. Please register an account and check out the freshly made forum! Also you can now send in your own headlines. This may be even news from your own website or blog, as long as it’s related to web-development.

Along with this new version I will present you the first JavaScript tutorial, learning you how to make really cool sliding menu’s. Definitely worth reading!

Combined Minds was founded more than eight months ago. It started as a tutorial website, adding at least two tutorials a month. By surprise the site was a huge success, more visitors than we dared to imagine. But there was one slight (huge) problem… Nobody was willing to register an account? If you think about it it’s very logical, what does Combined Minds has to offer you at the moment? Well you can reply to a tutorial or article. But of course to register an account for such a small matter, only a few were interested. And even if people registered, only seventy-five percent activated the account, and only a hand full used it. That’s why we got our minds together, and thought why this was.

The solution is simple, just give people what they want. Make Combined Minds interesting, give people a reason to come back, to read, and to post messages. In the meanwhile you might have noticed we haven’t written many tutorials lately, as you can guess now… We were busy writing and designing a whole new Combined Minds! By the first of November you will experience Combined Minds: Sunrise, the second version of Combined Minds. This time with news, interesting articles and of course a Forum. Also a new appearance, looks are important for a website. We’re sure you will like the new Combined Minds, but you have to wait a little while.

Even though a new CM is coming, we are already thinking of the future. Combined Minds will never me done, a website can always be better, and more fun to read. To give you an idea, in the future we’ll do more in the bright world of Open Source. ;-)

Combined Minds dumped the Rizon IRC channel. Why? Because we'll be active from our own IRC Server! You can connect to the server by simply connecting to irc.Combined-Minds.net, and joining #Combined-Minds. Of course this is a public server, so feel free to create your own channels. (As long it's not illegal)

You can also let a vhost be set. This is done by the server admin. So either e-mail Jim, Mick, or Graham(name@combined-minds.net), or message us in the main channel. You can only set a vhost once a week.

Our IRC channel can be used to ask questions about tutorials, articles, or if you just want to chat about your new website. For the bot testing there is also a new channel, called #BotTest. Please do not test your bot in our main channel.