Storyboard

[Matt Fontaine]

Could have sworn I attached it...

-Matt


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[Peter VanDijck]

Looking good. I have a few comments:
- if this is for an audience of people trying to decide wether to use
Drupal, you should give a lot more detail on features.
- starting with the bugs this early in the presentation seems kinda
scary.

Could you elaborate on who this tutorial is aimed at?
Thanks!
Peter

[Matt Fontaine]

The tutorial is aimed at novice users who have decided to use Drupal, but
don't know much about it. You're right about bugs though. Thanks a lot!

-Matt


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Looking good. I have a few comments:
- if this is for an audience of people trying to decide wether to use
Drupal, you should give a lot more detail on features.
- starting with the bugs this early in the presentation seems kinda scary.

Could you elaborate on who this tutorial is aimed at?
Thanks!
Peter

[Peter VanDijck]

So someone else made the decision to use Drupal, and now these users
have to learn about it, right? (If they made the decision themselves
they would already be familiar with the system to some degree).

In what form do you plan to present the tutorial? (HTML, images?, ...)
P

Post by Matt Fontaine
The tutorial is aimed at novice users who have decided to use Drupal, but
don't know much about it. You're right about bugs though. Thanks a lot!

[Matt Fontaine]

Exactly..It will be a step-by-step tutorial presented in HTML with
screen-shots(or maybe something cooler if we can get that far)

-Matt


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From: drupal-user-***@drupal.org [mailto:drupal-user-***@drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Peter VanDijck
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:23 AM
To: drupal-***@drupal.org
Subject: Re: [drupal-user] Storyboard


So someone else made the decision to use Drupal, and now these users have to
learn about it, right? (If they made the decision themselves they would
already be familiar with the system to some degree).

In what form do you plan to present the tutorial? (HTML, images?, ...) P

Post by Matt Fontaine
The tutorial is aimed at novice users who have decided to use Drupal,
but don't know much about it. You're right about bugs though. Thanks
a lot!

[Adrian Rossouw]

Post by Peter VanDijck
In what form do you plan to present the tutorial? (HTML, images?, ...)

I agree.. i have nothing with which to view powerpoint files..

as little as i like saying this.. perhaps flash would be a good idea? If
it were a possibility.

like here :
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/redir.php?link=/college/001_sequences/index.php

[Charlie Lowe]

Post by Adrian Rossouw

Post by Peter VanDijck
In what form do you plan to present the tutorial? (HTML, images?, ...)

I agree.. i have nothing with which to view powerpoint files..

if it helps, openoffice did a good job of viewing their files

Post by Adrian Rossouw
as little as i like saying this.. perhaps flash would be a good idea? If
it were a possibility.

i'd be in favor of html and pdf. pdf's are always nice for any
documenation or tutorial since they can easily be viewed offline or
printed out.

[Peter VanDijck]

Post by Charlie Lowe

Post by Adrian Rossouw
as little as i like saying this.. perhaps flash would be a good idea? If
it were a possibility.

i'd be in favor of html and pdf. pdf's are always nice for any
documenation or tutorial since they can easily be viewed offline or
printed out.

If you look at the tutorial (and I'm just imagining that it will keep
the same kinda structure as it had in the PPT), there is no reason
whatsoever to make it Flash. Plain HTML with images will do fine.

Peter

[Dries Buytaert]

Post by Charlie Lowe

Post by Adrian Rossouw
as little as i like saying this.. perhaps flash would be a good idea?
If it were a possibility.

i'd be in favor of html and pdf. pdf's are always nice for any
documenation or tutorial since they can easily be viewed offline or
printed out.

I'm in favor of using either LaTeX (PDFLaTeX) or Docbook; they allow you
to generate (amongst others) both PDF and HTML. Neither PowerPoint of
Flash seem acceptable as they are not suitable for print and not
cross-platform.

[Dries Buytaert]

Post by Matt Fontaine
The tutorial is aimed at novice users who have decided to use Drupal,
but don't know much about it. You're right about bugs though. Thanks a
lot!

Looking at your storyboard, the target audience are also developers ...

There are two essential questions that need to be answered early on in the
storyboard or tutorial:

a. who is the target audience of the tutorial?
b. what is the goal of the tutorial?

Without these two questions answered;

a. the reader can't determine what to expect and whether the tutorial is
what he or she is looking for.
b. we can't comment on the structure, approach or usefulness of your
storyboard or tutorial.

[Kobus Myburgh]

Hi,

Where can I view this document? The links say "Not Found" when I click
on then.

Regards,

Kobus
Today's Topics:

1. ENGL 421 Online Tutorial for Drupal (Matt Fontaine)
2. Storyboard (Matt Fontaine)


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