[documentation] Configuring a Drupal site: a case study

[Farsheed]

Thanks for the feedback.  I can understand your
confusion with 4) and 5).  What you are reading is
text I was writing as I was configuring the site, so I
still need to go back and revise certain portions for
clarity, i.e. write down the meaning and motivation of
a certain step in addition to the instructions for how
to do it (or whether it is optional, or a hack).

Also +1 for the name, "Site Recipes". Delicious idea.


Farsheed
 

--- Jennifer Wabin <jwabin at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I took a quick look at your case study, and I think
> it looks great!  I think
> it would be most visible to newbies under the
> Installation handbook. Either
> directly as a child page - "Walkthrough: Configuring
> Drupal for Media" or
> under a "Walkthroughs - Step by Step Installation
> guides for Different
> Applications."
> 
> A couple of suggestions -
> 1) With each navigation tab, it may be helpful to
> also indicate the direct
> url address.  For example:
> NAVIGATION: administer >> access control >> "roles"
> tab 
>            (or directly: /admin/access/roles)
> I know sometimes it was hard for me to figure out
> how to navigate through
> the different >>.  Maybe it was because sometimes
> people didn't type in the
> correct thing.  
> 2) Maybe you could explain a couple of basic
> premises in the beginning, like
> what does "NAVIGATION:" mean?  Where do we find
> that?  Maybe a simple
> statement like: In this tutorial, I will be using
> some basic terms to help
> clarify how the steps of the tutorial. 
> "NAVIGATION:" will tell you how to
> accomplish a step by navigating through menu items
> to get where you want.
> Once you have logged in as a user, the navigation
> menu will display as a
> sidebar block titled with your log in ID.  This
> sidebar will initially be on
> the left, but you can change its placement. There
> will be more on this
> later.
> 3) Under download and install the following modules
> from drupal.org, can you
> give the navigation of web address on Drupal.org?  
> 4)What does this mean? I'm not totally new to
> drupal, and I don't get it.
> "admin,login or logout is inserted automatically in
> page.tpl.php using this
> code (placed in the primary links): ..."
> 5)Under block Configuration, I think the description
> there is too brief.
> Unless your drupal version looks different from
> mine, there are a lot of
> steps to accomplish what you're written. 
> 
> OK, well, here are just a couple of suggestions in
> my brief look.  :)
> 
> Jennifer
> 
> 
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