If you're getting started online and are looking through some of the many website building tutorials out there, a certain question may have crossed your mind: Are these actual instructional materials or are they just a sales pitch in disguise?   That's a smart question and the answer is, "It depends on the tutorial".
  Many available tutorials combine a little bit of solid information with a lot of marketing.
 These website building tutorials are written in an effort to persuade you to buy specific products.
 Those products are supposed to make the whole process of getting your site up and running faster and easier.
  Some of those products, by the way, are absolutely fantastic.
 Others are outdated and nearly useless.
 It can be tough for a new entrant to the world of the Internet to recognize the difference.
 That's why so many people are looking for honest, accurate, unbiased website building tutorials.
  Are they out there?  Sure.
 You can find tutorials that have been written by people who don't have an interest in selling you anything at all.
 You can also find some very strong guides that were written by people who promote specific products but that do have your best interests in mind.
 In fact, some of these tutorials are among the best.
  That's because some marketers believe, correctly, that the best way to turn you into a customer is to build some level of credibility with you by honestly and accurately providing you with information you can use.
 That's why you don't want to be reflexively dismissive of every commercially-influenced tutorial you find.
    However, if a website building guide seems strangely focused on how you should or "must" use a certain product, read it with a critical eye.
 Try to glean the non-commercial information from it and move on to another set of instructional materials.
 Along the way, you'll learn a great deal from a variety of perspectives.
 That knowledge base will help you when you do find a tutorial that puts everything together for you in a way that makes it all "click".
  It can be tough to gain a foothold online as a new webmaster.
 To be completely honest, some of the website building tutorials out there don't make the matter any easier.
 Fortunately, with a little trial and error will increase your knowledge base and will undoubtedly lead you to a tutorial that will really help you.