Pascal, Alex, I agree that the help and the tutorial are more important. In fact, I think that once the tutorial is in place, there is no need to maintain html help files. They come with Scid and newbies don't need them : they need a << Scid for the impatient >>. What we would need is a manual, but we're a long way from there. That could be a wiki, if that is not too cumbersome [^note].
There is no dillemma between rebuilding the site and creating the tutorial. A webpage is more than a bunch of linked pages : it's an information architecture. Before creating a link to a page, I must make sure that : the page exists and that it satisfies the reason why I am linking to it. Besides, just look at the main page ! For starters, what is Scid exactly, << a free chess database app >> ? That must be, since the expression is repeated three times. Minimally, using an abbreviation is not good. So what exactly _is_ Scid ? What are its main features ? This is not just marketing stuff. This is important for the tutorial, the main page, the fast intro, the Wikipedia entry, etc. To use terms in a consistent way, we must take care of them right at the beginning. We must decide what terms to describe the toolkit. (I imagine that Scid is a toolkit, for now, It could also be a _suite_, but that sounds too much like corporate-talk. What exactly is Scid ?) The time-frame I set myself included the tutorial, btw. Scid's website is at most ten pages deep : no terrifying depth there. It's not that deep that I should not work on the HTML templates first. The actual HTML template does need repairs. We don't create tables to insert navigation anymore. I wish you all a splendid day, Benoit *** [^note] I have begun last year to modify the tcl file of the help. I did not finish all the pages, but did enough of them to understand that a big tcl file for all the help sections is certainly no fun to maintain. One reason is that both porting the modification to the HTML files on the website or creating a big html file around are not trivial matters. It would be interesting to include each section of the help files to facilitate maintenance, like we do in LaTeX for instance. I will return to that in October, if all goes well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
