[drupal-docs] Update on About section

[bryan kennedy]

On May 14, 2005, at 12:48 AM, Kieran Lal wrote:

> Do you want to update us on your efforts with the about sections?

Why sure.  I am still working away at the about section, based on  
this structure outline that people seemed pleased with when I posted  
here before:

http://mysteryexperience.com/drupal/handbook_v2_drupal.html

There has been some discussion that the Features and the Why Drupal  
sections need to be better written to focus on the audience we want  
to attract.  Great!  Go to it.  Or if you have <em>specific</em>  
suggestions/edits please post them here.  My goal was to get some of  
the structure in place and then let people edit it.

I thought "Why Drupal" could be a place for Djun's pages he wrote  
here (http://drupal.org/node/20350) that seem to focus on the larger  
picture of Drupal.

The "Features" section is pretty much just a re-org of the old  
features page, broken out into individual sections instead of using  
headers like most people seemed to think was a good idea. I am being  
won over to this idea.  This section focuses on the more specific  
aspects of Drupal that are important to highlight.  It DOES contain  
technical language and information about the backend of Drupal.   
Kieran pointed out that people requested info like this in the survey  
and card sort activity.  But, like I said edit away on this section  
to highlight things differently if you see fit.

I just posted the "Gallery" section.  This was in response to  
discussions on drupal.org, the infrastructure list, and here.  I have  
pulled together various sites and made screenshots (Thanks for the  
great suggestions Dries and Charlie).  This is by no means a  
comprehensive list of "kick ass" Drupal sites.  We need to reconcile  
this section with the information at :  http://drupal.org/cases

So I was thinking it would eventually look like this:
Gallery (broken up by the header level elements on the old case  
studies page (http://drupal.org/cases))
     --Case Studies (Intro to more in depth stories about why people  
switched to Drupal, use drupal, built with drupal)
         --Contraire.com
         --Linux Journal
         --etc....

Coming soon, the "Goals" section.  If anyone is interested in working  
(not endlessly discussing) with me on other parts of the About  
section I would welcome input/aid.

bryan

ps - I am temp. hosting the images for the gallery on my server.  I  
added a gallery on drupal.org for the images, but the uploads  
failed.  Something about a directory not being set up.  Any help?