{"id":2190,"date":"2011-12-10T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T01:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bryanhadaway.com\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:22:08","slug":"i-hate-video-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/i-hate-video-tutorials\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Video Tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really do. Perhaps that makes me old-school, but I really hate Googling something only to land on a page where the quick snippet of info I need is buried in an often obnoxious, annoying, and awkward video of someone fumbling over their words, taking forever to get to the point.<\/p>\n<p>I like simple, to the point, and concise text-based tutorials. That way, I can skim through to the info I need or get the basic understanding of it. <em>Am I the only one that feels this way?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I see videos to be more of a fad, than actually being helpful. Videos are usually blurry or too small; you can&#8217;t really see what&#8217;s going on; you certainly can&#8217;t copy text or reference info easily.<\/p>\n<p>There is of course, the hybrid of the two, which I still don&#8217;t like very much. With that, I leave it in your hands:<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-11\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_11\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_11_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"0c798ce342\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"11\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Preferred Tutorial Type?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-11-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-44\" name=\"poll_11\" value=\"44\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-44\">Text-based<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-45\" name=\"poll_11\" value=\"45\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-45\">Text-based with Images<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-46\" name=\"poll_11\" value=\"46\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-46\">Video<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-47\" name=\"poll_11\" value=\"47\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-47\">Hybrid of Text\/Video<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(11);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(11); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-11-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really do. Perhaps that makes me old-school, but I really hate Googling something only to land on a page where the quick snippet of info I need is buried in an often obnoxious, annoying, and awkward video of someone fumbling over their words, taking forever to get to the point. I like simple, to <a href=\"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/i-hate-video-tutorials\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  I Hate Video Tutorials<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,88,84],"tags":[218,279,276,275],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-polls","category-writing","tag-how-to","tag-polls","tag-readability","tag-writing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webguy.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}