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

[Amy Stinson]

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
web:  http://www.amys-answers.com
phone:  317.885-1741