Hello all
(I'm starting a new thread because the other one went off on a tangent a bit)
Below is a link to the second draft of my concrete5 beginner's guide to editing. It's designed for clients who will be editing websites, so as such it doesn't cover the Dashboard or any development topics. In time I'll extend it to cover those parts of the Dashboard which are relevant to clients.
The idea is to have a document which you can hand to a client once their concrete5 site is live, which will allow them to make most edits without any training. The WYSIWYG editing in c5 is fantastic, but it still requires some instruction. My intention with this document is to move as much of that as possible to a printed/PDF guide which clients can refer to, which will make our lives as designers/developers that little bit easier.
The document is Creative Commons licensed, which means you can tweak it yourself and alter it for your own needs, provided that:
1) you keep the attribution to me somewhere on it, like this: (c) Laurence Diver
http://www.39stepsstudio.com
2) you share any resulting document you create from it under the same license, so we can all benefit from any improvements you make.
More info on the Creative Commons license can be found here:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/scotland/...
If you want to opt out of any of that, contact me and we can come to some kind of arrangement.
Future: better quality images, vanilla concrete5 logo, Dashboard content, etc etc
v1.0: tweaked some text and the cover. Uploading in ODT format so others can remix it.
v0.9: first draft. Basic text and images in place, simple design, nothing fancy.
I've uploaded an ODT version, so you're free to play around with it as much as you like, and a PDF version, if you just want that as it is.
Hope you find it useful.
(ODT version)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/s9fgr839yc4z456/concrete5_beginners_g...
(PDF version)
http://www.mediafire.com/file/3kuxm4uiybb8fiq/concrete5_beginners_g...
(the concrete5 forum still can't handle large (1mb) attachments, it seems, so I've uploaded it on Mediafire instead).
Laurence
