[drupal-docs] Adding pages about basics

[Anisa]

The word (is it a word?) cmod is unfriendly.  You can't even properly 
pronounce it.  But saying 'set permissions on this folder' every time 
this comes up is mendoukusai (tiresome).  So, I was thinking of creating 
a set of pages in the handbook that explain things like cmodding and 
using phpMyAdmin.  You can think of it as a set of functions that you 
keep in a seperate file and all the modules can call to...  you can 
change the pages without changing all the other stuff.  This way you can 
get away with using more technical explanations.

Of course, there is a certain amount people need to learn...  None of 
this really really has to do with Drupal itself.  But rather than face 
the same basic 'silly' questions, why not have a simple explanation 
easily accessible? 

Examples.
* Running SQL queries in MySQL
* Setting permissions
    > Unix
    > FTP
* Editing php.

Stuff.  Some of this is also hidden in the handbook pages (there are 
some real gems, like this http://drupal.org/node/17430).  I suspect the 
more you go through the pages, the more you find yourself explaining 
basic things over and over.

If this sounds good, then as a further step, perhaps make a place in the 
Bryght development wiki for these kinds of things.

Anisa.

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