I’ve been a fan of nettuts and psdtuts for a while now. Over the years I’ve picked up some good tips from their tutorials and it’s helped me work on some projects and also learn something new along the way.

The company has moved their series of sites into one umbrella called tutsplus. Not only does that include nettuts and psdtuts, but also vectortuts, audiotuts, and aetuts.

While I haven’t really used the last three sites at all, I checked them out this morning and they also offer some cool tutorials on those topics. The new dashboard shows the latest articles from those sites as well as their latest articles on Digg and their tweets on Twitter. All the modules can be arranged like those you would find on your Google or Yahoo home page.

Head over and check it out.

While I consider myself proficient in a variety of JavaScript libraries like Prototype, jQuery, and YUI, my library platform of choice at the moment is MooTools. I’ll evaluate each project on a case by case basis and each trial will be different, but I’ve found MooTools to do an adequate job for the type of projects I work on.

Web Design Ledger posted a good collection of user interface enhancements using the MooTools library. It’s got a few good tutorials that could probably be implemented in your next project.

If you have ever been interested about the inner workings of JavaScript and haven’t already, you should take a look at several video lectures by Douglas Crockford. Douglas Crockford is a Senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo! and has authored an O’Reilly Book: “JavaScript: The Good Parts“. The two I’d recommend starting off with are “The JavaScript Programming Language” that provides fundamental yet thorough information into the JS language such as objects and functions. Even if you have been using JS for an extended period of time, I’d recommend browsing through the lecture. The second video lecture is basically a continuation from the first, “Advanced JavaScript“.

These lectures do not delve into any of the current JS Libraries like YUI, mootools, or prototoype, but the lectures will help you extend those libraries as needed by project demands. The general Yahoo! UI (YUI) Library Theater page has many other video lectures available that get into utilizing the YUI JS library.