[consulting] Basic doc for consulting clients

[Jakob Persson]

Hi everyone,

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. :)

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.

So far part one is done, I plan to write part two soon:
http://www.jakob-persson.com/myblog/drupal_for_solid_lifeforms

I'm not sure if it's what Rob's looking for but it's aimed at total newbies.

Cheers,

Jakob

Thomas Barregren wrote:
> Rob Barreca skrev:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> 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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