[Typo3] Strategy for page templates... help needed.

[Cousins]

At this point I have to add that I agree fully with Amy's comments - I've 
been using Typo3 for 2 years and the thing that gets me is the difficulty 
in chancing on the correct keywords to find the answer to a problem. 
Another thing that irritates me in particular is the   relative lack of 
response I personally seem to get to my questions .... Guess my questions 
must be altogether too simple, even though I can't find the answers via 
Google, typo3.org or this list.... hope my copy of the Typo3 book (in 
English) gets here soon....

Ian

At 12:15 5/05/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>On 4 May 2005 at 23:29, Nagita Karunaratne wrote:
>
> > I thought the conventional wisdom was that if no one responded to your
> > post it was because it was blatantly obvious. Can't remember where i heard
> > that but is that not the case anymore?
>
>Ok folks, I'm going to tell you what is frustrating.  I download an 
>extension that
>doesn't have any documentation with it and I ask a question AFTER I've 
>googled for
>the answers and hit every web site that has a tutorial, because as a 
>listowner I
>understand how annoying it is to clutter up the list with redundant newbie 
>questions.
>I get ignored, not even a note saying you can find it in some other 
>document.  I am
>left having to read through everything in hopes that I *might* stumble 
>upon the
>answer, which wastes a lot of time.
>
>Now you tell me how I'm supposed to know to look in other documents to 
>find the
>answer if I can't find it googling, or I'm not supposed to ask because I'm 
>supposed to
>somehow _know_ it's located somewhere "obvious", just not in accompanying
>documentation because there is none?
>
>As for blatantly obvious, that is all a matter of perception.  The best 
>way I can
>explain this is before I bought my car, I never really noticed my 
>particular car out on
>the street.  Once I bought it, I saw cars just like it 
>everywhere.  Nothing changed
>other than I now had a point of reference.
>
>Since many of you have been with this project for a long time, the whole 
>structure
>makes sense to you.  As for those of us who are new to Typo3 and to it's 
>concepts,
>we don't have the same point of reference.  For those of you,"it goes without
>saying", that is, it's obvious.  For those of us who don't share the 
>history and the
>points of reference, it's not obvious, it's confusing.  To expect new 
>people to
>understand right from the beginning can be a bit unrealistic.
>
>Don't just assume we are lazy if we don't find it just like you did, or we 
>don't see it,
>just like you did, or we don't understand it, just like you did.  We may 
>not be as
>smart, gifted, and talented as you, but we still want to benefit from 
>using Typo3.  Is
>that too much to ask?
>
>Have mercy on us.
>
>Amy
>
>
>Amy Stinson
>Amy's Answers, LLC
>email:  astinson at amys-answers.com
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>
>
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