Videos for website nubs

Alright so I decided that I was going to make some videos for those people who want to make a site but dont want to spend any money and dont know how.

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#471907

that was hard to watch.. besides the shitty youtube quality video, unable to see text (which is very important to new commers), and the dollor store microphone sound, alot of your "how two's" were very out of date and incorrect..

for instance, besides for myspace kids, who uses

any more? also .htm?? Common that was wiped out since 4+ character extentions where alowed many years ago. I know that this video is for "nubs" but "nubs" should be learning html along with css side by side. You should of also explained to turn on file extentions in folder so "nubs" knew how to replace .txt with .html

I gusse your video(s) are good for people who want to put text on a page, but theirs no real practicality in them... people can learn a lot more in a lot less time on w3school

If there was a way you could get cripst video, and a micrphone that doesnt want to make people cut of theyre ears off; it might be a helpful thing to watch...

#471941

I work for musicworld3d.com and we've had to do some video tutorials like this and one thing I can offer is to drop your screen resolution to 800x600 or less when recording them because otherwise the scaled text is so small you can't make it out on those videos at all.

As far as the rest goes, basic HTML tutorials are a dime a dozen, and a lot of people these days need to learn some of the more esoteric stuff, like css and xhtml, along with javascripting. You should show how to use styles, so that their sites are compatible with css style sheets, and they can more easily change the look of their whole site.

Just some thoughts. Helping n00bs is always nice, but help them in ways that they can't already find too many of.

- Drake.

#471966

@CWT thats just because I learned html first. I dont ever do it like that anymore like for

I do

#471978

for instance, besides for myspace kids, who uses any more? also .htm??

I use .htm. What do you suggest I use? It's pretty much the same format as .html.

#472001

thats true, i use php for my sites but I am just trying to walk through the BASICS.

#472042

for instance, besides for myspace kids, who uses any more? also .htm??

Actually, .htm is commonly used.

#472884

very commonly. keep in mind that its for those starting out. you need to learn the fundamentals of anything, for example basketball, you cant just go in and be amazing you need to learn fundamentals and then develop those skills into better ones. thats what i am trying to do here. teach fundamentals.

#473792

thats true, i use php for my sites but I am just trying to walk through the BASICS.

the problem with this, in my opinion, is that teaching people the "basics" isn't always the best way to start off. this is why web standards aren't catching on, people are picking up books that just say "use for bold, for italics,

& for pretty colors". they aren't really told that what they are learning is poor technique and that a more efficient workflow can be achieved by taking some extra time to learn standards and better coding habits. these things should be known from the get go, IMO.

besides that, you're very general in the tutorial. your opening sentence was something along the lines of "go to the folder and delete these 3 files"...

#473801