<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 24, 2006, at 8:44 PM, John Handelaar wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">More to the point, I remain entirely unilluminated after </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Kieran's superlong post about why his stuff can't be </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">achieved in themes and modules.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>We are trying to get the administration module into core. We are specifically talking about the design of the default administration interface being new user oriented.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">And am more than a little </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">surprised that he didn't use some small portion of those </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">hundreds of words to telling us.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Advanced users understand CMS concepts and know how to accomplish tasks. So they prefer categorized overview of features instead of a task oriented interface.</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">[And what the hell it's got to do with this list.]</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Consultants deal with building sites for regular users all the time. Of all the mailing lists consultants are the audience most likely to spend their time explaining to new users how to accomplish tasks.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kieran</DIV></BODY></HTML>