Were is the old tuts?
The links are totally crap (elsiun, old blender page, etc)!

A new user will never be able to start anything whithout a linear course like the old website.

http://www.blender3d.org/UsingBlender/tutorials.php

Here is a partially restored Learning Path.
You can also brose the old blender.nl site here:

http://oldsite.blender3d.org

Work on improving the blender3d.org site is in progress...