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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Monday, July 01 2002 @ 12:08 am EDT

Anon is totally right. I reviewed the entire nuke family and several content management packages and choose GL because it fit _all_ my requirements. None of the others did.

GL has encouraged me to learn PHP coding and made it a simple and straight foward process to see how almost everything works. The code is not blended stirn noodles hacked and patched to the point of getting a doctorate in GL to work on it.

My install took all of ten mins. It worked the first time. It till works and the bugs I encountered are being fixed.

Block and plugins installs are pretty simple, like cookbooking and not like appendix removal.

Help is available everywhere I look.

etc, ad nausium, till your eyes fall out reading the good stuff.

Bad stuff--
Documentation. I know you guys will have it for us when it\'s ready, but most people choosing this for business solutions are not the IT kiddos. They are \"the guy who \'knows\' computers\", I know because for years I was that guy. Know one windows keyboard shortcut and you\'re the department \"webmaster\".

That\'s all that comes to mind right now.

My own users are a good spread of \"so I use that browser thingy right?\" to \"Gads, Max, for the love of God, dont use sprintf there.\" The ones having trouble figuring out posting usually admit to difficulty understanding the terminology, so I changes \"web resources\" to \"links\" and some other things in the langue file per directions from the guys on the #IRC channel and that was that, no more complaints. one user couldn\'t find a link back to the home page, so I told him about the link in the header..... ect.

As a business solution, GL makes an excellant program to keep people up to date and post policies (static pages), gathering user data via polls, help manage contacts and makes inter user communications a snap.

I\'ll shut up now.
--Max

More documentation/Add\'l GL site navigation

Authored by: epretorious on Tuesday, July 02 2002 @ 01:44 am EDT

Max:

I really like your observations ("Know one Windows shortcut and you're the Webmaster...") and the points that you make regarding embracing and expanding GL (to paraphrase) to adapt to the users' expectations ("The ones having trouble figuring out posting usually admit to difficulty understanding the terminology").

Personally, I am having a tough time wrapping my mind around the concept of blogs and I'm not computer-illiterate by anyone's measure (I've got a couple years of Linux administration to my credit and a couple more years HTML/CGI development in addition to that.) but I really feel that GL would benefit tremendously from more thorough documentation. e.g., An Introductions to blogs (conceptually) including an explanation of plugins, blocks, and themes with corresponding changes in the site's navigation to ease admin's into the transition from static to blog. (Where are the plugins, blocks, and themes available?)

---
Eric P.
Sunnyvale, CA

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