[Grok-dev] [website] Let's do content!
Sebastian Ware
sebastian at urbantalk.se
Wed Jan 2 18:06:37 EST 2008
2 jan 2008 kl. 23.38 skrev Kevin Teague:
>
>
> Luciano Ramalho-2 wrote:
>>
>> I've created an Reference section in the Learn [1] area.
>>
>
> More documentation on the web site is good :)
>
> Note that we basically have three main documentation content-types:
>
> How-To:
> Single page of documentation.
>
> Typically associated with goal-oriented tasks, although I've named
> this
> "Mini Tutorial" for the time being in keeping with the old site.
I think How-To is more descriptive. I also like "recipe", provided
they are focused on code samples.
>
>
> Tutorial:
> Multi-section documentation.
>
> For lengthier, more in-depth subjects on a particular topic, but a
> reader
> should still be able to digest an entire Tutorial in one sitting.
>
+1
> Reference Manual:
> Multi-chapter, multi-section documentation.
>
> For large works. I suspect that we may want to publish the main Grok
> Tutorial here as a Reference Manual, since it is already organized
> into
> Chapters/Sections. Which means we might want to rename the content-
> type on
> the site to something like "Book"?
>
I would prefer to keep the Grok Tutorial among the other tutorials. I
think it will be confusing if we mix reference and tutorial style
content in the reference manual.
Mvh Sebastian
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