[documentation] Introduction

[Charlie Lowe]

Hey Bill,

To add to what Kieran has said, there are three other things from the 
last couple of weeks that you might be interested in:

1) Farsheed and sepeck have been talking about site case studies and a 
Drupal site recipes section (check the past few days list archives). I 
know that you have created a blogs for teaching tutorial in this regard.

2) Ber initiated a conversation to create a section for all php snippets 
(also in the archives for the last week).

3) I've updated the formatting for all core module admin/help for Drupal 
4.7:

http://drupal.org/handbook/modules

Since these pages will be available to users (and are a significant 
usability improvement), you might look at any of the contrib modules 
which also need updating. Any which you are going to supply to your 
users, you might take a stab at. There is information here on writing 
those admin/help pages: http://drupal.org/node/24268.

Kieran Lal wrote:
> Bill, in our recent drupal administration survey we highlighted a  
> number issues users are having trouble with.
> 
> 1) Updating Drupal: http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction,  
> there was a recent thread on the mailing list and we just need some  
> help to implement those changes.
> 2) Working with themes was considered the most difficult  administration 
> task: http://drupal.org/node/37156, and http:// drupal.org/node/39451.   
> There is a new themes mailing list and they  need help with filling this 
> documentation out: http://drupal.org/node/ 39451
> 3) Most common Drupal activities:
> -Managing content, updating comments and content.  Spending time on  how 
> to do this would be helpful.
> -Installing new modules and learning new features: Installing new  
> modules is complete: http://drupal.org/node/17473, but it could be  
> redone to be super user friendly.  We have written 81 administration  
> help module handbook pages here: http://drupal.org/handbook/ modules.   
> This does not include all of the top 50 most downloaded  modules.  If 
> you were willing to write some of those that would be  very helpful to 
> new users.
> 4)The page the troubles me the most right now: http://drupal.org/node/ 
> 15365 it has 34 comments and without clean URLs new users will miss a  
> lot of the benefits of Drupal.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kieran
> 
> On Dec 2, 2005, at 8:45 AM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:
> 
>> Hello, all,
>>
>> As one who has been helped by the existing documentation, I'm glad  to 
>> start
>> contributing back.
>>
>> I'm particularly interested in developing documentation targeted to  
>> new users to
>> help them get up to speed more quickly, and with a minimum of hassle.
>>
>> I've been meaning to join the list for a while -- glad to be here.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bill (drupal username bonobo)
>>
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