[TYPO3] Complicated documentation? No reference guide? Do you know any good documentation?

[James Knuckey]

So you're typo3newbie! A couple of things helped me at the outset, thanks!  
:)

I tried to post a comment about your problems with tt_news category  
display (you have to unhide your general storage page for it to work), but  
it wouldn't let me post comments.

On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:04:34 +1300, Cate & Peter  
<catepeter at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Karol
>
>> > I'm wondering, if you agree with me, that almost all of the
> documentation to
>> > TYPO3 is really non-intuitive.
>
> The story is documentation is an old one. There are a couple of reasons -
> first, the people who wrote it are predominantly coders, and people who  
> have
> a good understanding of basic concepts, and maybe have forgotten how much
> they know intuitively that the rest of us don't :). The second is that
> coders like coding, not writing manuals (overgeneralisation I know). The
> third is that coders are always busy improving their coding projects and
> debugging, and documentation is put off. I find that the WEC  
> documentation
> is always excellent, so for things like tt_news, and basic extensions  
> that
> the WEC team have put together in their package, they usually have some
> help.
>
> TSRef is handy ... but only if you have a starting point, when you are
> learning. I usually try to find some code that nearly does what I want,  
> and
> look to see how to tweak it.
>
> And Christopher, regarding your article...
>
>> For this reason, I wrote the following article about using the
>> TSref--have a look and if you (or other readers of this thread) have any
>> suggestions for additions or  changes, please let me know:
>
> I had a look at it ... but honestly, for me, it went straight over the  
> top.
> All the jargon that I don't understand in the TSRef is all there in the
> article, and so I still don't understand it. I think maybe you are a 4th
> year apprentice and ready to become a tradesman, while I still have to  
> pass
> my entrance exams :)
>
> That is why I made my own blog at typo3newbie.com, so that I can paste
> snippets of information I find out that makes everything else clearer for
> me. It is like a little "hint book" that I keep online. (I am amazed the
> number of times I search for something on Google, and my own site comes  
> up
> with a hint :))
>
>
> Cate Deans Smith
>
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