How To Use Your Site (Video Edition)

More and more the sites I create are integrated with a content management system (CMS). I have a few favorite CMSs, and I believe they are all easy for the average site owner to use.  

But with any system there is at least some learning curve, especially when the content management capabilities become more complex. To help clients handle their CMS like a pro I create custom video tutorials (screencasts) showing how to accomplish common and specialized tasks. Did you catch that these videos are CUSTOM? 

Benefits of custom video tutorials

• Site owners and editors can see “how to” on their own site.
• The tutorials can be watched whenever they want, however many times they want. 
• To hand-off site-editing responsibilities, they can simply point the new person to the tutorials which are hosted in a secret location on their own website.

Very handy!

Clients love these tutorials, and they have become a standard part of my development/training process for sites I build with a CMS. Because the videos are not branded they are equally suitable when I’m developing the site in a sub-contracting arrangement.

Note: you are welcome to bring in your own snacks (mmmm... Twizzlers... my brain says they’re just strawberry-flavored plastic, but my mouth says “soooo goooooooood”).