[Pdweb] Pd-FAQ [was; Re: puredata.org survey]

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 22, 2007, at 4:22 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> IOhannes' method looks intriguing, but I would like to see things  
>> on  puredata.org be very easy to use, rather than more efficient  
>> for a  manager.  If it's setup for a manager, then only the  
>> manager is going  to ever use it.  If it can be made really easy,  
>> so that you don't  need to read any docs to use it, then it's the  
>> best of all worlds.
>
> i agree.
>
> however, i thought that it might be way more easy to use.
> i don't see a benefit for the manager of the site in using yet  
> another product (apart from a personal "hey i have made this work  
> too!!")
>
> personally i think it rather non-user-friendly if the user wants to  
> add a new faq item and has to skip through dozens of pages of text  
> to find the relevant section in a weird markup language which  
> somebody has set for them and which fucks up the entire site if  
> they change it.
> furthermore, if they by accident delete a line or another, this  
> will eventually have side-effects which they don't want (like  
> disappearing TOC by accidentally deleting the line with  
> "[[TableOfContents]]" or "..
> contents::")

I should clarify, I didn't really mean "but" in the first sentence.   
More like, "as long as it's easy to us, great!"

.hc


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> IOhannes
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> PS: btw i am wondering why the built-in HTML editor does not seem  
> to work...



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