[plug] Newbie Guide - The beginning

[bwarff]

having been involved in several content management projects I can quite safely say
that nothing works for 'all users' .. the differences in skill levels, expectations and
'ability and preparedness to learn' are all so wildly different that im almost scared
of having opinions on this subject ;)

having said that ...

some system of 'posting' text/html/word docs into various 'categories' is relatively trivial
to implement and resonably useful.

the best solution (hehe imho) would be docbook (which generates multiple output formats)
but i suspect that noone would be preapred to learn it, and the gui tools are average.

rod.


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:50:56 +0800
William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> wikis can be very daunting to totally new computer users.
> 
> On a personal note, I think wiki's suck big time, but do suit some
> (disciplined) groups - they dont suit everyone despite the hype of the
> wiki evangelists.
> 
> BillK
> 
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 09:42 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:38:16 +0800, Evert van Dijk
> > <evert at silver-sword.net> wrote:
> > > Hi Arie (and plug)
> > > 
> > > You might want to look at putting a Wiki implementation (
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki_software ) up to allow people to
> > > create and edit content, without you having to spend a lot of time
> > > converting to html, you can spend time editing content instead.
> > > We can cal it  - wikiplug :)
> > > 
> > > Other than that Good Job
> > > 
> > 
> > There was a conversation on the wiki solution at the AGM, and too me
> > it sounded like most believed that the wiki concept was too confusing
> > for new users.
> > 
> > I still believe that it depends on the implementation of it, and the
> > side that newbies will be using doesn't need to be complex at all.
> > 
> > But if we're going for simple, why don't we just use open office to
> > write it out and convert it to pdf for the publication... can't get
> > much easier than that...
> -- 
> William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au>
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