Comments on: 15 Ways of ruining your tutorial, a beginner’s guide

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:43:30 +0000

Hey i have an awesome program i use for making tutorials its called Camtasia Studio

By: Naruto Wallpaper

Naruto Wallpaper — Sat, 19 May 2007 03:43:53 +0000

Nice Blog..I’ll read this more on daily bases :)

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Pinky Programmer » Blog Archive » Probably…….. — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:56:10 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:34:25 +0000

I’ve seen a number of tutorials that follow your ‘guidelines’ (sarcasm – those tutorials weren’t written too well). Perhaps we should pay a little bit of attention.

5. Go one step further and host them on a free image host

It comforts us to know you’ve gone through all the effort of paying $10 a month for a host it really does. It means that you’ll be around longer than the refresh of a page.

Somehow I manage with $3.33/month hosting ,were I get 3 GB of space for anything I could possibly want (well, the usual exceptions – no porn, warez, etc.).

By: .Zetrom

.Zetrom — Sat, 06 May 2006 19:29:11 +0000

Hahaha, great tutorial. Made me laugh.

By: Ribbon

Ribbon — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 10:05:06 +0000

OK that’s fine for me thanks,

By: VR88

VR88 — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:32:59 +0000

Highly amusing. I guess the life of a tutorial indexing site administrator is a frustrating one!

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:48:41 +0000

Hey Ribbon,

Whatever happened to a simple link? :)

By: Ribbon

Ribbon — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:55:16 +0000

Hi, nice article to learn someone how to write decent tutorials, can I post it on my website?, this site will be mentioned and credited.

By: Mike Wilson

Mike Wilson — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:06:56 +0000

” Those sigs just bring life to the page and really shine through your professional side. In truth, if you showed anything close to a ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œsignature fileÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬? in a professional interview they would send you back to your local grocery store for extra training. ”

Thank you!

Another thing is taking game “renders” and putting them in “sigs” which is illegal. And for tutorials, when you start and say, ok, take this brush, I don’t know where it is from, and do stuff until you get something that is totally different and that no one that hasn’t “brushed” before would understand.

I’m done..

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 22:30:39 +0000

Note

I will be considering extra parts to this tutorial to advance it further so suggestions on extra steps are welcome :)

By: Computer Dave

Computer Dave — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 21:20:41 +0000

Online Tutorials…

Man, after reading this post I can sympathize with the author. I’ve read many a “tutorial” that left me less than confident in doing what it was giving instructions on. I’ve also read many that actually helped me immensely and……

By: Dark

Dark — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:49:08 +0000

Well Said,
Also those sites that Bombard the User with PopUps
.. I am teaching them something so might aswell make some money, who cares about what they think or the quality of this! …

By: Tiago

Tiago — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:30:23 +0000

Well that actually should open the eyes of every “bad” tutorial writer ;)
Nice article jay, had a lot of fun reading it :)

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The Journal / Blog of Dan Richard » digg - Submit Item — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:56:14 +0000

[...] A humorous look at tutorial writing for folks that write tuts and submit them to tutorial portals for traffic. People get so offended when their tutorials are declined, so maybe they should give this a read and find out why.read more | digg story [...]