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Hi everyone,<br>
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I'm new here on the list btw, at drupal.org I'm known as solipsist. I'm
a freelance designer and developer and I work a lot with Thomas's
company, Webbredaktören, in Sweden. If you want to know more, feel free
to browse my site. :)<br>
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As to the question, well the handbooks aren't very low level generally,
they assume a lot of basic knowledge such as understanding what a node
is and how taxonomies work. There's a gap at the entrance level,
something I've tried to bridge by working on a tutorial in several
steps that will cover all the Drupal site administration basic.<br>
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So far part one is done, I plan to write part two soon:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.jakob-persson.com/myblog/drupal_for_solid_lifeforms">http://www.jakob-persson.com/myblog/drupal_for_solid_lifeforms</a><br>
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I'm not sure if it's what Rob's looking for but it's aimed at total
newbies.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Jakob<br>
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Thomas Barregren wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Rob Barreca skrev:
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<pre wrap="">Does anyone have a basic document they give to consulting clients to
help them get up to speed with common admin tasks such as
- creating/modify new pages
- using TinyMCE and img_assist to write content upload images
- adding those pages to the menu
- blogging
- creating new user accounts
- etc.
I know it's pretty basic, but I'd like to get a solid, concise help doc
that I can give to consulting clients to get them up-to-speed using
Drupal. It would be cool to maintain this in CVS as well so other
consultants could contribute to it, modify it, creating something solid
to brand and distribute to clients.
If there isn't anything good out there, let me know and I'll pull some
info from the handbooks to start this off.
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Good idea. I'm willing to contribute to such effort.
As consultant myself, I think the handbook is broken up into too many
and too brief snippets to be comprehensible for most of my customers. I
don't carp at the handbook, which I find very good with open source
measures and very useful for us Drupal versed. But there is a need - and
room - for a more custom oriented documentation. Another huge problem
with the handbook, which actually is a problem with the book.module, is
that it isn't possible to print the handbook as whole.
But instead of starting off a new documentation effort, would it not be
better to improve and/or supplement the handbook somehow? Or have I
misunderstood your intention?
Regards,
Thomas
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