{"id":256,"date":"2009-05-06T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=256"},"modified":"2009-05-06T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T14:57:09","slug":"make-tutorials-dead-simple-with-screensteps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/make-tutorials-dead-simple-with-screensteps\/","title":{"rendered":"Make tutorials dead-simple with ScreenSteps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluemangolearning.com\/screensteps\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-257\" title=\"ScreenSteps logo\" src=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/picture-11-300x50.png\" alt=\"ScreenSteps logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/picture-11-300x50.png 300w, https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/picture-11.png 404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re wondering how I got so fancy with my <a href=\"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/?p=214\">instructions on how to make a DVD clip reel<\/a>, I had a trick up my sleeve. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemangolearning.com\/screensteps\/\">ScreenSteps<\/a> is an application specifically designed to create software tutorials. It has everything you need packed in: screen capture, image notation, links, and text. Because it&#8217;s designed specifically for the purpose of creating tutorials, it&#8217;s super easy to use.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The most impressive part for me was its integration with WordPress. I followed ScreenSteps&#8217; instructions to connect to my blog and ScreenSteps generated the blog post you saw, complete with styling. The only hitch was that I had to strip all the &lt;div&gt; tags out of the HTML ScreenSteps generated, since they were messing with my sidebar.<\/p>\n<p>And ScreenSteps also generated a great-looking PDF version of my instructions. Plus, if I need to go back in later and change something, it&#8217;s no big deal.<\/p>\n<p>I used the free thirty-day trial. The real thing costs $33.96 (standard) and $50.96 (pro) for academic users. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll write tutorials frequently enough to justify the purchase, but if I did plan to create even a few software tutorials, I&#8217;d definitely shell out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re wondering how I got so fancy with my instructions on how to make a DVD clip reel, I had a trick up my sleeve. ScreenSteps is an application specifically designed to create software tutorials. It has everything you need packed in: screen capture, image notation, links, and text. Because it&#8217;s designed specifically for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[330,7,73],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","tag-tools","tag-tools-i-like","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}