<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face='Arial' color=#000000 size=2>So, I've done a lot of work since Tuesday and come to the
conclusions that as hard as writing useful docs is, editing is a much bigger
pain somewhere. I also need a bigger monitor to hold all the open browser
windows I had.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, evenings Tuesday, Wednesday and pretty
much 14+ hours Saturday.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, two of the handbook's have been renamed.
We now have Installation and configuration and Customization and
theming.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I ordered a lot of pages, consolidated a bunch of
sections, wrote some intro texts and culled some old content and comments.
One of the bigger changes was I renamed a buch of the titles to something that
will hopefully attract more reading and really identify what the content
was. Reduced the number of top level items to group them under
related topics. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>A lot of the pages and
content has been here for a while (jeez, we have a lot of content). There
is still more consolidating and culling to do, but I think from a top level it
reads better now and flows more smoothly. I tried to hit the top pages
with a more detailed look. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I will say without the effort Kieren Lal lead to
get the modules help into the handbook, this section would not have been as
posible as it is now.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The order chosen was a deliberate progression ..
</FONT></DIV>
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<H2 style="CLEAR: left"><A href="http://drupal.org/node/258">Installation and
configuration</A></H2>
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<UL>
<LI><A href="http://drupal.org/node/21951">Introduction to Drupal
terminology</A> <FONT color=#000000>renamed to be more relavent.
Some old old definitions worked on. Hopefully more folks will stop by
and read this. </FONT></LI>
<LI><A href="http://drupal.org/node/270">System requirements</A> - not
really touched much, added a few comments, lock tables</LI>
<LI><A href="http://drupal.org/node/43767">Installing Drupal, modules and
themes</A> -consolidated three sections under this umbrella. Some
work on pages and comments. Needs more, but it'll do for this pass.</LI>
<LI><A href="http://drupal.org/node/363">Basic site configuration</A> -I
did a bunch of stuff here. I plan on doing more this week. So when
people ask how to do something basic with core (filter section, workflow) we
can link them to a page here and others will learn to look.</LI>
<LI><A href="http://drupal.org/handbook/modules">Drupal modules and
features</A> - just moved to this handbook, don't plan to touch it.</LI>
<LI><A href="http://drupal.org/best-practices">Best practices
guidelines</A> - moved to this handbook, some of the content will be
moved to basic site config</LI>
<LI><A href="http://drupal.org/node/199">Troubleshooting FAQ</A> - this
needs a serious going over and restructuring, but I haven't gotten to it
yet. Probably Tuesday.</LI>
<LI><A href="http://drupal.org/upgrade/">Upgrading from previous
versions</A> - lots of comments edited into the content and removed.</LI>
<LI><A href="http://drupal.org/node/271">Migrating from other
software</A> - didn't touch no idea.</LI>
<LI><A href="http://drupal.org/node/2601">Tuning your server for optimal
Drupal performance</A> - won't touch, out of my expertise.</LI></UL></DIV>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Notes:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>heine <A
href="http://drupal.org/user/17943">http://drupal.org/user/17943</A> -helped
review and identify duplication and verbage and comment culling.<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>oNyx <A
href="http://drupal.org/user/18866">http://drupal.org/user/18866</A> -feedback,
bounce ideas and phrases. Made him read things :)<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>osinet <A
href="http://drupal.org/user/27985">http://drupal.org/user/27985</A> -found
some very old definitions in the terminology section so we spent a bit of time
updating them.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Amazon - comments cleanup</FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I high-jacked a few misc others to ask
questions but don't have them written down.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>So, tomorrow because I am a moth I will probably spend a little time on it
but will spend most of the day taking care of my wife (back injury) and playing
World of Warcraft. Returning to /handbook slogging on Monday. At
this point I will probably get to the Customization and theming section
Tuesday. :)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I will probably post an update to Drupal.org on Monday which is when I hope
to have that first book done enough for this first rough pass. I also want
to make sure the folks who helped get some mention.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>a very tired glad he's not an english major...</DIV>
<DIV>-sp</DIV></BODY></HTML>