Hello Thomas, Friday, October 25, 2002, 10:20:51 AM, you wrote:
TF> Hello mm, TF> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 09:54:37 -0400 GMT (25/10/02, 20:54 +0700 GMT), TF> mm Meister wrote: >> In order to solve this problem for the new users, clearly they're >> intimidated by the industrial look of TB! - why not design a good, >> follow-the-steps set of tutorials that can help a new person settle >> in? TF> Actually I thought about it. When you look at Eudora, you can go to TF> any good bookshop and buy a big book called "Using Eudora". But for TF> The Bat, the book would be out of date by the time it is printed and TF> hits the stores. Yes on some things. I still get use out my old PageMaker manual for version 5. We have the same problem. Just now we are about to release our new version of software and realize that because of future changes the manual really will be out of date, so we cannot take advantage of lower printing costs for the larger print order. TF> To publish the tutorials on the web means constant updating, as TB's TF> development is quite fast (or maybe it just feels that way to beta TF> testers?), and I cannot promise the tutorial would always refer to the TF> latest version. A tutorial based on a prior version is useless, maybe TF> even damaging to the software's reputation (as people try out things TF> that in the end don't work that way in the current version they just TF> downloaded). I believe this depends on how you do it. There are things that will always remain the same. How does one actually set up their mail ? That's the same, regardless. Why use templates? How do you write templates? Write these with the idea of the single user in mind (the corporate guys can pay for it ;) So if you write the tutorial with the idea of how to accomplish certain tasks in TheBat!, then it will possibly never go out of date (unless TheBat! someday includes automatic template creation) :0 TF> I haven't given up the idea, but I don't think it makes a lot of sense TF> to start the project now (it will probably take a few months to write TF> all of this), because v2 is already on the horizon and we have no idea TF> how the interface etc will change. Well yes, but if you were to do just a basic how-to tutorial, that would still be ok. It would depend on how much time you can volunteer to the project! :) Time is the most expensive thing there is, I think. I so enjoy your tag lines, Thomas. -- mm mailto:mmeister@;sprintmail.com ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
