[Pdweb] Proposal wrt. guide new users with silk gloves

[Kyle Klipowicz]

This is great! I think that 'silk gloves' are exactly what is needed.
I mean, I've been using Pd for a while now, and I couldn't even figure
out the whole [libdir] thing in Pd extended.

This is a perfect approach.

~Kyle

On 1/28/07, Steffen <stffn at dibidut.dk> wrote:
> I've been thinking about how to best and with less changes to the
> current website make the into-tour to Pd land feel more like trip to
> Bhutan; or Nangijala if you prefer.
>
> My focus was fist to give a more detailed explanation of what
> opportunities there are with respect to getting Pd. The fist easy
> step was to add extra information to the downloads section (and maybe
> rename it to "getting Pd"), but i've fund that it might be better to
> do some more through out chances to the site, which i think will be a
> good solution in the long run.
>
> To be more precise. Instead of expanding the download page, i'd keep
> it simple but serve the info i think is needed (or would be nice to
> have) elsewhere:
>
> The About section, which i'd like to expand into three parts.
> 1) a slight rewrite of the current about page making it more like the
> wikipedia page on Pd, that is with a few screenshots and feature
> descriptions.
> 2) some explicit examples that can be downloaded, much like the
> examples on the processing site. This have been discussed before,
> where the conclusion more or less were, that having both a curated
> showroom regularly updated and a more alive share-your-work-section
> on the website would be more desirable then a static example section
> just. I still agree. But i'd rather have a static example section
> then nothing. And it seam more likely that such think cold happen
> then the other. And then it will be more in line with this About
> section, it could use more digestible examples, which would let fx a
> showroom use it's potential to have a more advanced and arty focus.
>  3) a page describing the goods in the Pd shop (vanilla, pd-
> extended, devel, externals, abstractions, pddp, etc). This section in
> particular i think new users would benefit from knowing from the
> start. i wish i did.
>
>
> The documentation section. There will be pointers from that about
> section 3) to appropriate pages or parts of the documentation
> section. Fx. about how to build Pd or externals one self. I think it
> would be nice to have a sub-section of the documentation dedicated to
> building. That is move the general building stuff out of the dev
> section and into the user docs.
>
> Another sub-section i think would be nice to have in the docs
> section, which also relates very much to new users, has to do with
> the ideas Georg roughly expressed in on pd-list about adding info
> about how to load lib in Pd-extended, namely a section about the fist
> steps one would do in the Pd world just after reading the About
> section, having installed it and read the (html) manual. Issues like
> - how is the help browser organized
> - how do i use other peoples patches, which is much related to
> - loading libs or abstractions, or starting Pd
> In other word a more pragmatic intro then then one from the manual
> (syntax) and the interactive getting started with the Pd (semantic)
> (and the about section ("what it this at all"?))
>
> I'll stop this here. What i think should be reorganized elsewhere -
> in particular in the docs section - i won't bother you with now.
>
> It would be nice to know what you folks think about these ideas. Fx.
> how does this fit with what the you'd like to see happen?
>
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