Sunday, January 6, 2008

Tomorrow is First Video Tutorial

Like the title says, tomorrow I will do my first video tutorial. I'll have the house to myself, and it will be nice and easy. I am busy with another writing project right now, private stuff of course, but I'll take a break to do the tutorial.

Video!

So, after three minutes of google, I found a screen recorder I've never heard of before, and it works satisfactorily. I just have to record my voice using my camera's record function (my microphone was... somehow destroyed a long time ago) while making the tutorial, and then add the soundtrack to the video in post. Then I can put it on a page, and presto, no more typing for me, and you can see what the code does without having to first type it yourself.

I'ma gonna do it when my parents are not here, since they'll think I'm crazy and talking to myself if I don't.

As Always

As always, work has left me somewhat tired, and frustrated. I drank 48 ounces of coffee, which I learned has little to no effect on me (apparently it's genetics). I did get to eat some lunch afterwards, and now I am dead tired. I only slept for four hours, give or take, last night. Like I said, the coffee had no lasting effect, so I'm out of several hours of sleep (going from 15 to 4 in one night is not pleasant). That's all I want to do right now, but my mind is just a little too active to let me doze off completely. I have the sudden urge to do something constructive. I just don't know what yet.

I will add a link to the tutorial on the side of my page, on top of the video link that is there. The next tutorial will come soon. I think there's supposed to be some basic color stuff, as well as basic components. And also more advanced layout techniques. That should be interesting. I am investigating the possibility of doing a video tutorial, so I don't have to type so much.

Oh well, actually, I guess I don't have a decent screen capture program for video, so I'll have to stick to the text tutorials. But I'll include plenty of screenshots and stuff.