How to make a step-by-step Instructable

Want to share your ideas with the world, but you're confused by how to start? No worries, in this Instructable we'll cover how to make a basic step-by-step Instructable. There are even pictures provided so you can follow along for your first time out.

After this you should have no problems making your own Instructable. If you do, feel free to leave a comment below!

All right, let's get Instructablizing!

Step 1 Video and files

The first step is to download the image files. Inside are the 6 photos we'll be using here. If you want to see the whole process talked through, check out the video below which covers everything. Otherwise, let's move on to the next step to get started.

Comments

[mistic]

can you include adding a You-Tube video to the instructions?

[ilpug]

Yo dog, I heard you like Instructables...

[fungus amungus]

Yup, the same joke was made on FB yesterday. It's Instructables all the way down! Which is why I included the "meta" tag for this one.

This was done by request. People wanted a walkthrough so here it is.

[ilpug]

Sorry, I couldn't resist. Great job though, it will hopefully help everyone and improve the site.

[bg_askins]

i really needed this when i did my first instructable huge help thanks :)

[fungus amungus]

You're welcome!

[frank26080115]

if you have a pro account, and want to post any sort of code, please use the source editor and place your code inside PRE tags, which will preserve whitespace and newlines for you and also make the font monospace. Sometimes I even add a boarder around my code blocks.

example         dfsdf
int main()
{
    indented;
}

<pre>
stuff goes here
</pre>

border example using

<pre style="border-style:dotted; border-width:1px;">
stuff goes here
</pre>

this is also useful for ASCII art

I wonder if the comments actually allow me to use these tags... the preview is certainly working

[frank26080115]

pro-tip: upload everything as a zip file, because instructables renames everything with random letters when it's downloaded. but if you put it in a zip file, the name of the zip file will be changed, but the contents within the zip file will not be renamed

[porcupinemamma]

Thanks

[corsairgryl]

thanks, great help for me who is a bit intimidated to do my own Intructables

[fungus amungus]

Glad this helps!

[karlpinturr]

Step 8, 1st picture - in 'Keywords', you have 'peanut butter' in quotes, but not 'jelly' or 'sandwich' - any specific reason for that?

[fungus amungus]

Great question! The quotes keeps it as one keyword. The others are single words and as such don't need quotes