[nabs] website of the week

[Yvonne]

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Website Of The Week

Instructables.com

Updated January 25, 2012 - 19:47 by rhiannon

Instructables is a site where you can find, and share, tutorials on just
about anything. If you want to learn something new or share what you know,
this is the place to be.

Here's the site description:

"Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the
Internet. Since August 2005, Instructables has provided easy publishing
tools to enable passionate, creative people to share their most innovative
projects, recipes, skills, and ideas. Instructables has over 40,000 projects
covering all subjects, including crafts, art, electronics, kids, home
improvement, pets, outdoors, reuse, bikes, cars, robotics, food, decorating,
woodworking, costuming, games, and life in general."

Editors Update: I did some testing with a handful of browsers. In all the
browsers I used, I was not logged in to Instructables. I could view all the
steps of a project on one page after clicking the box "View All Steps On One
Page", while clicking on the PDF box brought up a message that said a Pro
account was needed.

Most of the projects are presented as step by step directions with photos,
some with videos. There are ads, and a pop-up box advertising a Pro account
appeared periodically as I browsed the projects.

My free account is years old and it allows me to view all the steps on one
page and download the PDF file for that particular project. It doesn't allow
downloading of eBooks. I'm guessing that since my account is so old, it
didn't change what I could do after the Pro memberships were introduced.

My apologies for the confusion.(

If you decide to become a member, (membership is free)

you can see all the steps in the project on one page or download the project
as a PDF file. If you'd rather not join, you can still see projects one step
at a time. Instructables now has paid accounts as well as free ones - I'm
not sure when that happened but you can compare free vs. paid here.

Instructables also has some interesting contests - my favorite is the one on
using Altoid mint boxes (palm size metal boxes with hinged lids). I hadn't
seen eBooks on the site before - a Pro membership is needed to download
them. I'll stick with the free (customizable) PDF files.

It's a great site to learn new things and get ideas and inspiration for
things you already know.

Instructables:

http://www.instructables.com/

If you have any questions about the tips posted in Dan's Tech tips, please
contact Dan at the following email address:

dthompson5 at mchsi.com

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