[documentation] info needed for installation guide

[Jeremy John]

Shai,

This is an interesting idea:

"The last dev. version of 7 that I saw called minimal "expert" which I 
have a real problem with. I actually think someone's learning curve with 
Drupal would be vastly improved by actually creating the content type at 
the beginning. A bit longer for sure to set up, but they will actually 
understand what a content type is and the relationship between those 
settings and a content-type."

If folks were to be walked through a content-creation "wizard" with all 
of the steps and good explanations of what a content type (and for that 
matter what a node was), then this might be useful.  However, if it's 
just another thing that doesn't work out of the box on Drupal, then it's 
a bad idea, then they'll be too frustrated to even learn what a node 
is.  I've watched people time and time again walk away from a fresh 
Drupal install because they can't figure out how to say, upload images 
or install a WYSIWYG editor.

-glass.dimly



Shai Gluskin wrote:
> Kazar,
>
> Let me preface this by saying that D7 is not done and is being changed 
> every day. I've installed it once and poked around briefly. So that's 
> the grain of salt you need to take this with.
>
> "Standard" comes with two "content-types" already created like with 
> D6. It comes with the "article" (replaces "story" from D6 -- but it is 
> just a label change) content-type which has commenting turned on by 
> default and "submitted by" information turned on by default and also 
> "promoted to front page" turned on by default. The second content-type 
> is "page" which has commenting, "submitted-by", and "Promote to front 
> page" all turned off by default.
>
> "Minimal" does not come with any content types set up so you have to 
> add a content-type before you can add content to the site. As part of 
> adding the content-type you set the comment defaults and also the 
> work-flow (published, promotoed to front, sticky), and submitted-by 
> default settings as part of creating your first content-type.
>
> The last dev. version of 7 that I saw called minimal "expert" which I 
> have a real problem with. I actually think someone's learning curve 
> with Drupal would be vastly improved by actually creating the content 
> type at the beginning. A bit longer for sure to set up, but they will 
> actually understand what a content type is and the relationship 
> between those settings and a content-type.
>
> Shai
>