On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Martijn Pieters wrote:
At 03:50 23/09/99 , Dody Gunawinata wrote:
I think "DOCUMENTATION" is more than anything else, the greatest barrier to people using Zope. << paragraphs deleted >> Much of the documentation is designed with *advance* developers in mind. It's time for Zope for Dummies.
What many people forget here is that Zope is a Web Application Platform. It is, first and foremost, designed as a framework for applications.
That doesn't negate the need for Documentation.
marshalling of variable types and RDBMS integration, Zope makes one heck of a Web Application Platform.
True. To use a Web Application Platform, one has to know the tools. The easy way to find out what those tools are, and how to use them, is by going through the documentation.
Zope was designed for Web Application Developers, not designers. The documentation follows this design. I actually feel that dummies should stay
If one is an experienced Web Application Developer, the documentation _might_ be, but probably isn't acceptable. If one is supposed to manage the content on a website, and not an experienced Web Application developer, the documentation is at best, inadequate.
away from Zope. Frontpage is for dummies.
What has Frontpage to do with Zope? They are completely different applications. One other point: Documentation can never contain too many examples. xan jonathon