[Foundation-l] Handholding for new articles (Was: Re: 80% of our projects are failing)

[George Herbert]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
> Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>> Nathan wrote:
>>> My sense was that Nikola was using tl:dr to respond not to George's e-mail,
>>> but to the process he described for creating a new page. I could be wrong,
>>> though.
>>
>> I wanted to say that due to the length of the text, new users' response
>> would likely be tl;dr. I haven't realized it would be broken over
>> several pages. But even so, I can see people giving up somewhere in the
>> process...
>
> Not that it's George's fault, I myself run into similar problems
> whenever I try imagining something better than current instructions.

I think these are valid concerns about my idea.

I would respond with "But you can always create pages the existing way" 8-)

But some new users won't want that much framework either.  I don't
know how many different methods/paths we can set up for different
levels and expectations of users (and being aware of things like
screen real estate, etc).


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com