Re: Documentation assistance

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 20:52:26 +0000, Jennifer Jordan wrote:

> Dear Xaraya team:
> 
> First off, I think you have a great thing going with this CMS.  I am a
> website coordinator for a large, multi-hospital health system and have
> been looking for a solid, extensible, robust CMS for quite awhile
> without spending a boatload of money.
> 
> My reason for contacting you is three-fold.
> 
> First, I am pretty much a web designer that got pushed into programming
> (or attempted programming) so I have minimal experience in php/mysql
> programming.  My web experience consists of HTML, javascript,
> coldfusion, and a lot of design work.  BUT: I really want to learn!

PHP is a good language to learn programming with - its fairly forgiving
and not overly strict like C or C++.

> Second, I am working on my graduate thesis (technical writing / software
> documentation) and was thinking about writing a basic software
> documentation manual (for us knucklheads out there with little technical
> wizardry) that begins with the basics of Xaraya and then rolls into
> creating themes, apps, etc. for Intranet and Internet portals.

Chat to Drew - he is our Docs Dude. As far as I can tell the majority of
the Xaraya Getting Started Guide (what you seem to be planning) is already
written. The formatting isnt done yet but the content seems to be pretty
much there. It should hopefully be included in the next release.
 
> Third, I would like to use Xaraya for both my Intranet and Internet
> portals and thought I could kill atleast two birds with one stone.  Help
> you guys with documentation, get my project done, and learn a great
> system.
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to read this long winded email and thanks
> again for the CMS.  I think it's great.

Cool! Let us know any bugs or feature requests you find and register them
at http://bugs.xaraya.com

Cheers

miko