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How To Learn Cutting Edge Technical Knowledge With The Use Of How-to Tutorials

October 27, 2008

Computers and the Internet have come a long way in the last 20 years or so.

Up until Microsoft came out with Windows, not a lot of people had home computers, and computers used by businesses were not that commonplace except for the larger companies that had the huge IBM’s and the like.

I recall when I purchased my first computer in about 1993, it had Windows For Workgroups installed on it, and it was a lot different from the present day computer and current versions of Windows. It also cost me about three times what a much more powerful machine costs today.

The Internet and email were just getting started good, and were not all that popular or very much used by most people. I recall telling one of my golfing friends, who was a very successful business man, about my encounters with the internet, and he assured me that it was just a fad and would never amount anything worth while.

When I first got the computer, I was so uneducated on computer use that I didn’t even know how to turn the darn thing on and off correctly. Every evening, I would push the on-off switch and turn it off, and later when I pushed the same switch to turn it back on, it would very rudely inform me that it was having to run scandisk because I failed to shut Windows down properly. I thought to myself, you stupid machine, how else to turn you off and on except with the on-off switch?

Well, as time went on I started to learn a few things about how to use a computer, including how to turn it off and on, and also about how to use Windows and a lot of its features. I didn’t really use the computer all that much though, more just a toy than anything else.

I upgraded to Windows 95, and found it to be much improved over the
older version. A couple of years later, I purchased a new Pentium computer with
Windows 98. About that same time, I really started to get serious about using the computer, as well as email and the Internet. I found out I could do my banking online, I
could locate and order products over the Internet, I could search for information over the Internet, and from that time on I was hooked.

I started to think about actually learning how to create my own web site, just to see if I could. I purchased some books approximately 4 inches thick and began to learn HTML, and after several weeks of trying to figure out what looked like a foreign language to me, I managed to create a really bad looking web page. Boy, was I proud!

I thought there must be a better way to learn computer skills, and started purchasing those hot new “eBooks” that everyone was selling like hotcakes. Some of them were pure junk, but a few were worth the price, and made learning a little easier.

I still was thinking, though, that there must be a better and easier way to
learn all of those highly technical skills that I wanted to learn. I needed
someone that knew the skills already to give me some “one on one” training, and I
wanted it to be visual, like things were taught in school, and not just reading out of a book or eBook.

That’s when I discovered how to tutorials, where someone who knew the subject actually sat down at a computer and recorded screen shots showing exactly what steps they used to accomplish a specific task, and I could sit at my own computer and watch them do it. Now we’re cooking. This is a better way of learning!

I began to buy video tutorials and after several years of learning from them, I think that I have become fairly accomplished in many computer and Internet skills that would never have been possible if I had tried to do it reading dull boring 4 inch thick books.

I now can easily create web sites using HTML, or with WordPress or Joomla. I have created several ecommerce sites, several blogs, and all thanks to video training versus written word training.

A person can purchase video tutorials on all kinds of subjects. When I purchased my video tutorials, it was a matter of paying for them, downloading them, and storing them on my computer. In a lot of instances I would be finished with the tutorial in a few days or weeks, and never really need it after that. In some instances though I would go back and watch the video again every few months.

A person can still buy video tutorials, download them, and store them on their hard drive, if they wish, or they can simply “rent”video tutorials, use them for a certain period of time, and not actually own them. It is almost always at a much lower price to “rent” video tutorials than if they purchased them. The choice is entirely up to the customer.

There are a lot of video tutorials available on the Internet, covering a large variety of subjects, and I recommend them highly for anyone desiring to learn new or specialized computer and Internet skills.

To see a short sample of a video tutorial, check out the video below.

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