What type of tutorials do you find help you the best?
Poll started by lodle with 1,824 votes and 81 comments. Browse the poll archive.
(136 votes)The great wall of text
(711 votes)Simple with lots of pictures
(646 votes)Video me up
(294 votes)Im MacGyver! No tutorials for me
(37 votes)Other (please comment)
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Videos - usually with text tutorials they will miss out some details making it hard for beginners to follow.
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moddb is ******* retarded when it comes to submitting tutorials. They need a better system . All 3 of mine were deleted randomly. No reason was started or notice.Not to mention all the crap you have to do to actually put them in the site.
The problem with your tutorials are they are not linked to any profiles. How are people meant to find them when they are not linked to any thing?
Video's or Picture's. Thats the best. But its also easy to understand text tutorials.
How about text with lots of pictures and a video to go along with it? :D
videos+voice FTW
disagree , voices need to be louder they are always so quick and then there may be screamer lol ^^ i think better to make video with text/subtitles+voice , it would be much better
Fairly simple with lots of picture; easy to follow and easy on the eye.
Wall of text is a big no-no.
Videos... well, can't say I've ever tried it. Still, prefer *reading* through a tutorial in my own speed.
I would also say simple with pictures. Problem with videos is that they tend to be long and seeking to the right location is a pain in the butt with the flash/shockwave streaming crap in use. Besides often voices are hard to understand and the image quality crap. That's mostly because you can have a lot higher quality image with less bandwidth than a video. And I can reread text and look at an image taking my time while with videos rewatching a given part is a pain and you can't quickly go back and forth between steps to see where something went wrong.
videos = a waste of bandwidth. Want to look up something quickly? Prepare to waste an hour or so streaming & searching.
Yea, but at least with a video, you are probably going to get it right the first time, whereas with text tutorials you are probably going to end up doing it 2 or 3 times.
actually i find that using videos i have to repeat steps and go over stuff
you cant really move at you own pace you have to keep pausing and if you forget to pause or the tutor keeps moving quickly i have to track back through the slide bar and find the right spot
also theirs a problem with quality a lot of the videos i have used have been bad quality
also accents can be a problem
Videos with a simple list of key words under the video work best for me.
Usually I MacGyver things. But if I do use tutorials, then I prefer picture ones.. though usually when I've needed tutorials, I've needed them for coding and so they've been text...
Pictures, videos, voices and some lines of text - but short and extremely to the point.
Sometimes tutorials should be cut in half and the other half should be designed for the "discussion" or "various info" section (i.e. walls of text as a separate section).
Video tutorials rlz.
"Im MacGyver! No tutorials for me "
I like achieving something on my own, bigger satisfaction.
(but sometimes, when there is no1 around me, I watch video tutorials :P)
Videos bug me, because I can't as easily work along at my own pace - or I have to deal with frustrating and annoying whiny American accents.
Text on the other hand, I can just keep on one screen and refer to as needs be - without having to go backwards and forwards in a damned video unnecessarily.
The accents are whiny?
Well, bluddy 'ell.
But when they're British accents they're too cute and you miss the meaning! :/
Other!
In person is the way for me! There are always a few bits you don't understand that just aren't quite covered, regardless of the method presented, and I find in person is the best way!
Good text explanations with accompanying pics for important things. I am very conservative man, yes... =)
Visuals help a lot more than texts.
All media at once, says I.
Yup, but such multitutorials would require so muuuch work. = / Hopefully, somebody will start making them. :-D (;->>>>)
I use a few tutorials mainly buy books but i try learn it all myself if i can.
videos are easily the best.. not only do you get the knowledge of the actual tutorial but you get to see how people work with the same program.. and that is always enlightening :)
Videos, you can see step by step what is going on.
Me MacGyver, but when i realy need then pictures, cause videos usually are crappy and text turorials too long lol :D
Text tutorials with pictures. :D I'm not big on videos, they just aren't as helpful to me.
I don't see an option for "well-structured and signposted text".
This was convenient, just a week or so after I started my video tutorial series on Hammer I see this poll on ModDB! :D
I'm glad to see video tutorials are in the lead right now!
Video tutorials can be bad sometimes, people say stuff like "Just do this" assuming that we will re-watch one part of the video over and over again to see what hot-key they pressed to get a new tool or what value to put in a code...
If done correctly, pic/simple text tutorials can be the best!
Pictures or videos are the easiest to fallow.
Erm, follow.
On the bright side, I learned a new word today.
Pictures for me! :D
UDN Wiki is all i need, but i prefer vidoes ;) they are coozy :D
Hi!
The great wall of text for me, some images are always useful also!
As long as it's in a comprehensive format, I'm good with any medium. However, I do prefer videos.
Somewhere in between wall of text and images.
Too many images misses explanation, too much text misses demonstration.
My internet is too slow for videos, plus, I lose patience with them very fast, because they move at the video maker's pace, which may or may not (usually not) be my pace.
I agree. =D Although my internet isn't too slow for videos, text and images evenly spaced in a tutorial are great, better than vids, even.
No video tutorials, it makes it hard to work at your own pace.
I like fairly simple with lots of pictures. I like videos sometimes, too, but I find they very often move too fast, or too slow. So I have to keep pausing them, so... Text and pictures plz
People usually think in pictures and symbols, so... I voted for picture! (and it's easiest for me too) Videos are nice, but not necessary.
it really depends on how detailed things are... i usually go with lots of text and pictures to accommodate
sometimes i find that pure text tutorials are exactly what i need, but sometimes i need a good mixture of both. sometimes plain text is hard to follow especially if you dont have experience in what ever tool you use.
Those tutorials that teach you as you go on with something, like in games. Press these buttons to walk et cetera.
Also, i´d like a tutorial on how to chance the signature in teh forums. Mine is embarrasing.
video is the best, if shortcuts r not used.
It really depends on the subject, if it's gaming we're talking about a wall of text will end up pretty boring, but if we take programming as an example you can't place too many images there as it won't turn out too useful.