I would like to suggest a couple improvements and workovers for the features page as it stands. This is more like a temporary shape-up, as there is plenty of things you could do to better sell BoltWire as a product. Part of that is the fact that there is more than one way to represent a batch of 'features'. My personal favorite is the more concise kind, giving a clear picture that all the standards are covered, but also, "these are our special treats: ...". A pretty good example of that is http://wiki.zoho.com/
What I've done: - For one, I think many of the "features" listed seem more like development milestones or help files rather than major selling points of the wiki's featureset, so I made an attempt to change that. - I think the line between 'Beginner' and 'Intermediate' is too thin, so I shortened the categories down to 'Intermediate' and 'Advanced'. - I am an Intermediate-Advanced user myself, in that I frequently administrate and use a whole lot of software, however I have little to no idea what is going on under the hood. Based on my classification of myself as an Intermediate user, I have re-sorted some of the topics. - Categorized features somewhat. Intermediate Installation Installating your first site is... easy why? Editing Simple markups for formatting Create, edit, copy, rename, or delete a page Administration Control permissions, how? Set up site notifications Restore modified or deleted pages with a button-click. Modify site actions [huh] User Management Advanced authorization options Create a member account, how? Create member groups, how Style Customization Changing default skin settings Edit your skin or css pages [how? see below too] [are there ways for intermediate users to tweak designs? e.g. like Joomla's 'parameters'] Install a new skin by... Use conditionals to control display [reword it - sug:"Make use of simple conditions for even more fine-grained display per-page"] Extensibility Browse X plugins in the [plugins repository]. Create your first plug-in with only x lines of code! Installing a standards compliant plug-in is a x-click operation. [I would put the least emphasis on this point, if at all, seeing as other apps currently surpass you in ease-of-use on this account. One-click installs has become more of a buzzword than it is reality. From what point do you start counting the user's clicks in the progress of finding and installing the plug-in of choice?] Upgrades Easy upgrades because/by... [do you have an automatic upgrader, e.g. like Wordpress yet? If not, I would personally grade your upgrade as medium difficulty, just on the basis that it requires an FTP/upload tool to get your files in there, regardless of how trivial the remaining steps are.] Pages Page hierarchies Search Using the internal search engine [this needs rewording. Is there anything special about it? Any way for an intermediate user to easily impact search results, like tags or meta content?] Translation ??? Changing the site language Miscellaneous Create interactive forms with commands [from the little I have experimented and read up on this wiki so far, 'forms' apparently have a big role in this framework, correct? However I am not sure if these particular forms, the ones built by a series of commands, are the same as I've seen mentioned it. Maybe forms should have a section of its own? Email functions Run multiple sites off one installation Setting up CleanURL's Embed html/javascript directly in your site Snippets Imo, the fewer features that require 'advanced' know-how to even appreciate them the better. Advanced Understanding templates and fmts [erm, what? It's a note-to-self I suppose ^^ Indexing your site Using lists, logs, and info vars Caching for increased performance Use functions to generate output [did not understand. either reword or keep in advanced] Understanding site.config Understanding actions Error reporting & debugging [this error reporting, is it own domain only, or reporting all the way to some database of yours? If that is/ eventually became the case, that'd be a major selling point for users like me; feel professional and safer] Stopwatch capabilities Alternate server configurations Set up an automated BoltWire script Pre & Post Processing Customizing allowed attributes Using system hooks to change default behavior Using php to control config settings Using the replacetable array -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en.
