A few weeks ago I posted an article called 'How to Produce a Good Video Tutorial' in which I summed up a few things that you should keep in mind when creating, well, a video tutorial. If you're more interested in working on written material, then check out this checklist on kingtuts.blogspot.com.
From the site:
Tutorials can be on almost any subject. All a tutorial does is teach someone something new. Tutorials can be on how to create a cool gadget, how to program in a certain language, how to set up a feature for a web page, how to ride a horse, how to meet girls, or anything else that someone might want to learn.
This is a guide to writing good tutorials (ones that will get accepted on this site.) Writing a good tutorial is easy and fun as long as know these basic steps.
The covered steps are:
- Step 0 - Know your information
- Step 1 - Organize your information.
- Step 2 - Include lots of pictures.
- Step 3 - Write in steps.
- Step 4 - Make it fun!
Check out the full article for details on each step. Enjoy! (And start writing more tutorials. Now. I know you want to! ;-)
8 Comments
defently gonna look at this :D thx
Interesting. Definitely a good starting point when writing tutorials.
//Mathias
Really good article.
KingTuts.com is a dead link, I guess it should be http://kingtuts.blogspot.com/ ?
Anyhow, tnx for the post!
.::PiPi::.
Thanks PiPi - fixed.
Step 2
Include Hundreds of thousands of pictures
or better yet, make a video (24 pictures per second)
Hey great article, I must read it all, to improve
Hey the link doesn't work, maybe is the server. I have to wait :(