Digital Phantom has a new look

We have been making tutorials since 2009. The early ones were a handful of videos, and over the years the library grew into programming, visual FX, web design and graphic design. The website that held all of it was getting old, so we decided it was time for a fresh start.

Starting today you'll see a new logo, new colors and a new site. Nothing has moved. The tutorials, news and partner pages are all where you left them.

The new look

The logo is the same head-and-play-button mark you know, now with a cleaner wordmark and our new tagline, Tutorials Made Easy. The main color is a bright blue, sitting on a dark navy background. We picked a simple typeface, Poppins, so the text reads well on a phone as well as a big monitor.

We wanted the look to match what we've always tried to do: show you how to do something clearly, and get you to the result.

Who helped us build it

This rebuild was done with Floms. Floms did the technical work: building the new site, moving every tutorial and article across, and running the infrastructure it lives on. They know this project well, and that made it a lot easier to get the details right.

Floms is a good fit for this kind of work because they build and run their own products, not only websites for clients. Their lineup includes Loxti for business communications, Provelox, an open source platform for deploying apps with automatic HTTPS, and Patchvia, an open source authoritative DNS server with DNSSEC. They also build custom web and mobile apps, APIs and automation, and they host what they build. Floms is the engineering partner behind several logistics platforms too, including fleet management and real-time GPS tracking.

Floms describes itself as having grown from a consulting team into a company that builds and runs its own products. For us, that meant a partner who understood both the new site and the infrastructure it runs on.

That lets us stay focused on the part we enjoy most, making tutorials.

What's next

This is the first step, not the last. Over the coming months we'd like to:

• Bring back member sign-in, the forum and private messages on the new site.

• Start publishing new tutorials in the new style.

• Keep cleaning up search, navigation and the mobile experience based on what you tell us.

If something looks wrong, or you want to see a tutorial on a particular topic, let us know in the community. We read everything.

Thanks for sticking with us since the early days.

Digital Phantom is powered by Floms.