Our Mission

Do you get tired of searching dozens of niche sites to find the tech content you need; or worse, you can't find any solid content on a topic at all?

ITNewb was born out of this frustration, and our mission is simple: create a free, centralized archive of exceptional, comprehensive articles for both newbs and the elite alike.

Our areas of interest are primarily development, graphic design & media, hardware and gadgets, networking, servers, operating systems, software and digital security.

Newb Initiative

Technology tracks at colleges and universities start with the basics. If they started students off in advanced C++ programming, the drop out rate would skyrocket.

The purpose of the Newb Initiative is to provide beginners with comprehensive topic stepping stones much like you'd find in a college.

No matter how technologically savvy or illiterate someone is, we envision a single site where they'll have the opportunity to learn and advance in the many fields of technology.

How it Works

You get to both power and control the ITNewb archive. By power, we mean you can publish articles you've written directly from your account. By control, we mean the community reviews and grades articles, determining their fate.

New articles undergo a unique, 15 day review and critiquing process. After 15 days, if an article has an overall grade of at least 85% B+ we'll archive it, otherwise it is deleted from the database.

Resume Building

Teaching online is more than just a great way to help others while you solidfy and grow your own skill set, it's also an excellent way to build and improve your resume.

Once your first article is archived, you'll appear on the ranked Authors List and be able to share a personalised link to your articles with friends and prospective employers.

Here is what Frank's link looks like: www.itnewb.com/author/Frank

Social Features

ITNewb is more than a technology archive, it's also a feature-rich social network with colorful member profiles, friends lists, activity feeds, profile shouts, private messaging and much more.

From the dashboard you can see what's going on site-wide, with your friends, see who's online, update your status, share links and more.

Easily control which activity stories are published about you and who can see them by adjusting your privacy settings.

Author Features

Through the Article Publisher you'll find creating, publishing and updating articles to be a relatively trivial process. You can also share article drafts with others so they can provide you with pre-publishing feedback and critiques.

On top of detailed grading data, we also provide daily, weekly and all-time traffic analytics, and stats on attachement downloads and favoriting so you can assess the performance of your articles.

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