[support] Newbie seeking documentation

[Jason Flatt]

The links below are starting places that I believe will get you to what you 
seek, if you follow the page flow order.

On Saturday 26 May 2007 00:03:21 Bruce Whealton wrote:
> Hello all,
>           I was looking at the documentation available on the drupal site
> and it's not as clear as to which pages one might want to turn to first to
> get comfortable with Drupal 5.x.y  In the past there was a set of handbooks
> that took one from start to the point where one understands all the basics
> like themes, menus, blocks, and content and related to content access
> rights for certain groups.  If I wanted to print something out from the
> documentation, what pages would be best to use for this overall
> information?

http://drupal.org/node/120612

>          It may be that my end users will need something very basic as
> well, very, very basic.  The idea is to give users who don't know HTML,
> much less CSS which is nothing in comparrison to PHP...  I seek a basic,
> end user, set of documentation that would cover "using" the site, as it
> were, without being a web designer. Where might I turn to meet these two
> needs?  or what pages would be able to cover these two user needs, or topic
> areas?  I seek something of the form of "go here to such and such pages..."
>  Please.

http://drupal.org/node/21951

>        I'd be curious as well about how others have used this software. 
> For example, has drupal been used in web sites where the users are not in
> any way web designers?  What role does an administrator have to play in
> getting a site to that stage where the end users can "use" the site, in the
> opinion of others on the list that have done this? Examples of how Drupal
> is used would be desireable...

http://drupal.org/handbook/is-drupal-right-for-you

>   thanks in advance,
>   Bruce


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