Oliver Betz wrote: > Mark Paterson wrote: >>BTW, I was initially reluctant to edit the URL because it felt >> a bit like "hacking" the site - like I was trying to go somewhere that the > > Ack, I wouldn't expect this from a newbie.
I felt that way when I was a newbie. More precisely, I was terrified of breaking something. > >> site didn't want me to go. Now that I'm used to it, it's no big deal. >> 2) Accessibility is very important. I think that the content on John's page >> is great. It's concise, and it shows by example, which is just what I needed >> as a beginner. I have no problems with the layout. If you want to change the > > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/BasicEditing is also meant to be > concise. It just was a bit overgrown in the past. > >> style, or do two column or two pages, fine. I probably slightly lean towards >> having everything on one page, so I have one place to search, but having an >> index page would be OK too. But I need to be able to get here from Google >> easily (or at a pinch, from the PmWiki search). I don't know if I'm typical, > > The link to BasicEditing is in the pmwiki.org sidebar, therefore > visible on most pages. How about adding (:searchbox label=DocSearch group=PmWiki:) to BasicEditing? > >> maybe not, but nowadays I rarely try going to a specific site first for >> searches; Google usually works. If there's a way (maybe using keywords?) to >> map "beginner," "newbie," "editing" and so forth to this page, that would be >> very helpful. PmWiki.org has the style %audience% which puts the intended audience for the page in a box on the top right. I'm not sure which recipe this is from, but the recipe includes a lot of other useful styles as well. Very useful. Sandy _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
