Hi J. David, Wow, looked at my note? Really helpful comments, thank you so much!
> Who is the audience for your tutorial? They already know Ruby. > Have you considered a navigation system like > the one in Daniel Carrera's Ruby tutorial? Cool! > If I were a total beginner, I'd be very > confused by seeing something like this > at page 00402_No.1_para.html > ............ > Is it necessary, or just something that was > left over? I wrote this page before published _why's manual. At this moment, it's not necessary. Sorry, to be honest, I've never considered about usability, i.e. layout, explanation, etc. xx-P I think it's time to overhaul my note. I'll try. :) Thanks again, ashbb On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:42 AM, J David Eisenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Satoshi Asakawa wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Updated Shoes Tutorial Note on GitHub (http://e93f3.zz.tc/1f4j) and on > > Heroku (http://eif3.zz.tc/si2f4j). > > > > Hope you like it, ;-) > > ashbb > > > I like the idea, and the layout is very clean. > > Who is the audience for your tutorial? Do they already know Ruby, or are > they complete non-programmers? > > When I click a link on the index page, the material appears in a new > browser tab (or window). Have you considered a navigation system like the > one in Daniel Carrera's Ruby tutorial? > (http://www.math.umd.edu/~dcarrera/ruby/0.3/<http://www.math.umd.edu/%7Edcarrera/ruby/0.3/>) > That lets readers page > through the tutorial without constantly flipping back and forth to the > index. At the moment, your tutorial reads as if it is a series of > independent "episodes" rather than a connected narrative, so this may not > be a big problem. > > If I were a total beginner, I'd be very confused by seeing something like > this at page 00402_No.1_para.html > > banner : Character size 48 pixels > title : 34 pixels > subtitle : 26 pixels > tagline : 18 pixels > caption : 14 pixels > para (paragraph) : 12 pixels > inscription : 10 pixels > > Is it necessary, or just something that was left over? > -- > J. David Eisenberg http://catcode.com/ > >
