[Typo3-documentation]Different documentation structure suggestion

[E. Veelo]

Wow, the below is an impressive list of 
documentation that I think would certainly help 
me, and many others. I think that a shift from 
the 'walk me through it and teach me whatever is 
related along the way' to 'quick, precise and to 
the point reference' documentation is certainly 
welcome for those that feel the step by step 
documentation is too slow but then are lost 
jumping right into the advanced documentation.

I am currently updating to 3.6.1 on OS X and 
keeping note of the steps, so that might turn 
into a small tutorial for mac users that have PHP 
and MySQL already installed, if you think that 
would be handy...

Greetings,
Edwin


>>Since I might not be the only one at that, I 
>>thought I'd discuss it here, if you don't mind?
>
>On the contrary! IMHO it is always good to hear 
>other peoples opinions - especially from 
>ordinary users.
>
>>In short:
>>I'd like to have a Typo3 user manual or 
>>functional reference in which I can quickly 
>>look up things like 'create new page' or 'add 
>>column to template' or 'change user rights'. 
>>And a template reference, giving the concept 
>>basics, and explaining simple and to the point 
>>'if you are looking to do this, do it that way' 
>>etc.
>
>I think I know what you mean, I had/have quite 
>the same experience. Started with the tutorials 
>and got a site up, but then I wanted to change 
>default language... And had nowhere too look it 
>up!
>(Later found it in the middle of a tutorial - not exactly easy to find...)
>
>I dont know about the others in the DocTEAM, but 
>I want to get at least these documents written 
>(besides the Installation and Upgrade manual):
>
>* Typo3 Introduction
>A little about how to use Typo3 as an 
>administrator. Lots of info could be used from 
>the Getting started manual.
>
>* Typo3 Configuration
>Smaller paragraphs about configuration, like PHP 
>memory limits, default language, how to use 
>favicons and things like that.
>
>* Typo3 Backend modules
>Explanations about every "build-in" Typo3 
>backend module, like Page, List, Access and so 
>on. Should explain every part of the module, how 
>to use it and what all options mean.
>
>* Typo3 Basic templates
>How to use templates. This can be huge, but I 
>want to concentrate on TemplaVoila which I 
>believe is the future for Typo3... Maybe there 
>will be a need for a Typo3 Advanced templates 
>too?
>
>* Typo3 Menu Basics
>How to make different types of menues. Some of 
>this is already explained (dont rememder where) 
>but there is a need for more examples and maybe 
>some more explanations.
>
>* Typo3 User management
>How to create and manage both BE and FE users. 
>Could maybe be a part of Typo3 Configuration...
>
>This is just a little of _my_ ideas. And as I 
>said, they are completely my own! We have to 
>discuss them later in the DocTEAM, but some of 
>them can be seen on the wiki. Look at my 
>personal page for more info:
>   http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/User:Peter
>
>
>/Peter Kindström
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