diff --git a/packages/lit-dev-content/src/components/litdev-tutorial.ts b/packages/lit-dev-content/src/components/litdev-tutorial.ts
index 60bffedbf..9211e9886 100644
--- a/packages/lit-dev-content/src/components/litdev-tutorial.ts
+++ b/packages/lit-dev-content/src/components/litdev-tutorial.ts
@@ -660,6 +660,16 @@ export class LitDevTutorial extends LitElement {
       hash = hash.slice(1);
     }
     this._idx = hash === '' ? 0 : this._slugToIdx(hash) ?? this._idx;
+    if (hash.startsWith('0')) {
+      // In an earlier URL scheme, we indexed steps from 0, and left-padded with
+      // "0"s. Now we index from 1, and conveniently use the fact that we also
+      // no longer left-pad to detect people still on the old scheme, and fix
+      // their URLs. Note we never published any tutorials with >10 steps on the
+      // old scheme, so there has never been a "#10" or higher in the old
+      // scheme, so this is never ambiguous.
+      this._idx++;
+      window.location.hash = `#${this._idxToSlug(this._idx)}`;
+    }
   };
 
   /**
@@ -713,23 +723,20 @@ export class LitDevTutorial extends LitElement {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Finds the index of the given slug. e.g. "" -> 0, "03" -> 3
-   *
-   * @param slug slug of the step
-   * @returns The index with the given slug
+   * Makes a 0-indexed step number from a 1-indexed URL slug.
+   * E.g. "" -> 0, "1" -> 0, "2" -> 1
    */
   private _slugToIdx(slug: string): number | undefined {
     const idx = Number(slug);
-    return isNaN(idx) ? undefined : idx;
+    return isNaN(idx) ? 0 : idx - 1;
   }
 
   /**
-   * Turns an index into a 2-length stringified number for the slug.
-   * @param idx index to slugify
-   * @returns A 2-length stringified number
+   * Makes a 1-indexed URL slug from a 0-indexed step number.
+   * E.g. 0 -> "1", 1 -> "2"
    */
   private _idxToSlug(idx: number): string {
-    return `${idx}`.padStart(2, '0');
+    return String(idx + 1);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -741,25 +748,40 @@ export class LitDevTutorial extends LitElement {
    *   does not exist in the file system
    */
   private _idxToInfo(idx: number): ExpandedTutorialStep {
-    const slug = this._idxToSlug(idx);
-    // The "after"'s code is located in the before dir of the next step
-    let afterSlug = `${this._idxToSlug(idx + 1)}/before`;
+    // Note URLs visible to the user are 1-indexed and non-padded, while the
+    // underlying resources are 0-indexed and zero-padded to 2 digits.
+    //
+    // TODO(aomarks) It would be nice to rename all of the tutorial files on
+    // disk to be 1-indexed instead of 0-indexed, so that it's easier to see
+    // which step they correspond to during development.
 
-    // if the user specified this step has an after, use that
-    if (this._manifest.steps[idx].hasAfter) {
-      afterSlug = `${slug}/after`;
-    }
+    const name = this._projectLocation;
+
+    // On the first step, we don't include a #num anchor.
+    const url =
+      idx === 0
+        ? `/tutorials/${name}`
+        : `/tutorials/${name}/#${this._idxToSlug(idx)}`;
+
+    const thisIdxPadded = String(idx).padStart(2, '0');
+    const nextIdxPadded = String(idx + 1).padStart(2, '0');
+
+    const htmlSrc = `/tutorials/content/${name}/${thisIdxPadded}/`;
 
-    const firstUrl = `/tutorials/${this._projectLocation}`;
+    const projectSrcRoot = `${this._samplesRoot}/tutorials/${name}`;
+    const projectSrcBefore = `${projectSrcRoot}/${thisIdxPadded}/before/project.json`;
 
-    const nextUrl = `/tutorials/${this._projectLocation}#${slug}`;
+    // If there is no after, use the before of the next step.
+    const projectSrcAfter = this._manifest.steps[idx].hasAfter
+      ? `${projectSrcRoot}/${thisIdxPadded}/after/project.json`
+      : `${projectSrcRoot}/${nextIdxPadded}/before/project.json`;
 
     return {
       idx,
-      url: idx === 0 ? firstUrl : nextUrl,
-      htmlSrc: `/tutorials/content/${this._projectLocation}/${slug}/`,
-      projectSrcBefore: `${this._samplesRoot}/tutorials/${this._projectLocation}/${slug}/before/project.json`,
-      projectSrcAfter: `${this._samplesRoot}/tutorials/${this._projectLocation}/${afterSlug}/project.json`,
+      url,
+      htmlSrc,
+      projectSrcBefore,
+      projectSrcAfter,
     };
   }