I am working on that now. The audience for what you are talking about
is Users as differentiated from Webmasters. I love the codex, I love
the style, and the content is exactly what I need, it's top notich, I
appreciate it so much. <br>
<br>
But I'd never be able to send my clients there. They will never go
beyond the user interface they are presented with. They don't want to
go to other web sites or theme web sites, they don't want to understand
more than what they need to do on that page. <br>
<br>
So I'm writing up exactly that, two pages that start with 1) changing
your password to something easier to remember... really basic stuff. <br>
<br>
Essentially the people who will come to codex will be the support people, not their users. And in fact you probably want that.<br>
<br>
(I'm new here, but you probably don't want webmasters installing
WordPress, charging for it, and sending their clients with their very
basic. "What is my password?" questions to the free forums. Many people
actually do not understand that the people that they pay to
host/install are not paying the people running the forum. I go out of
my way to mention that to each client. I can provide you with the
write-up I hand out on that.)<br>
<br>
Also the dashboard is very confusing to some of these users. Rather
than turn that dashboard to my own site, perhaps we could offer a
user-level 'channel' that the installer could set by default one way or
the other. (Users could change that.) Some examples of user-level
articles would be "How do I keep my links fresh?" <br>
<br>
So if you set up a I-can'<a href="http://t-codex.wordpress.org">t-codex.wordpress.org</a> (that's a joke)
with that attitude of 'we support the support people.' that might work.
A dedicated section to that. "Resources for Supporting WordPress
End-Users."<br>
<br>
And on every page, put "For more information, contact the person who is
responsible for supporting your local installation of WordPress." And
leave space for them to customize it. I have lots of really
really basic stuff you could use in that way.<br>
<br>
Am I being silly, or unfriendly to end users you may welcome?<br>
<br>
By the way, has anyone considered:<br>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#FDL</a><br>
a GNU free documentation license for all this.<br>
<br>
A PDF is OK as an alternate format. <br>
<br>
The questions people have are so basic... My number one problem is that
people get upset when they get a request to approve spam for
moderation, they don't realize it's not already viewed by their
visitors. So I'll need to edit that notification text.<br>
<br>
Sheryl<br>
<br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/25/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Merrill</b> <<a href="mailto:skippy@skippy.net">skippy@skippy.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I started at the WordPress Lessons page:<br> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons">http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Lessons</a><br>which is chock-full of information. I hadn't read "First Steps with
<br>WordPress" in a while, so I clicked there:<br> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/First_Steps_With_WordPress">http://codex.wordpress.org/First_Steps_With_WordPress</a><br>also chock-full of information. Reading all of these two pages (which I
<br>didn't do) would take me a fair amount of time.<br><br>>From First Steps, I clicked on "how all of this works", which takes me to:<br> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress">http://codex.wordpress.org/Working_with_WordPress
</a><br><br>I've been using WordPress for about a year now, and feel fully<br>comfortable with it. But I feel overwhelmed trying to follow the<br>documentation. I've no idea what to suggest as a starting point for my<br>
mom, a fledgling WordPress user and a person entirely too busy to read<br>all of this stuff.<br><br>Don't get me wrong: it's _fantastic_ that we have such a wealth of<br>information. I wonder, though, if we can find a slightly more linear
<br>presentation method so as not to inundate the fledgling bloggers with<br>too many links to too much information?<br>Maybe we could tease out some of the information from Codex into a (PDF?<br> HTML?) "WordPress Guidebook", which users could read offline (or print).
<br><br>_Huge kudos_ to Carthik, Lorelle, and all the codex contributors. I am<br>simply amazed at the quality and quantity of the information.<br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:skippy@skippy.net">skippy@skippy.net</a> | <a href="http://skippy.net/">
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