I can't say as I'm overly fond of writing articles, but I have done some. My essays, too, are more observations of my own life than on any particular idea or concept. I honestly don't think I know enough about anything to be able to write knowledgeably on any one particular subject.
Let me rephrase that. I know a little bit about a great many things and can even put what little I know into a format that others who know even less can read, but that strikes me as being a bit... well, not quite dishonest, but close. It implies that I know more than I do and I don't like that kind of misrepresentation. It tends to come back to haunt one when one least needs the aggrevation.
One of the nice things about writing tutorials, however, is that by explaining something to someone else, I learn more about the subject myself. The series of web tutorials that I've created originally started out as notes for a class I was taking. I learned HTML by looking at the source coding on the pages I created in Dreamweaver. I learned CSS the hard way - by reading the W3C guidelines. Between Pegasette and the members of HTMLforums.com, I realized that there were very few 'chatty' tutorials out there. I have tried to answer the most common, basic questions in my tutorials. Please, feel free to let me know if I've missed anything.
Peg