WinCustomize Help Center [Beta] Launches!
Help me, help you
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 by Zoomba | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Last week I posted a little preview of the upcoming changes to the WC Help page. The idea was to make the page easier to navigate, easier to read, more inviting/friendly and give us the ability to expand on the help resources we could provide on the page. The old help page was just a bunch of link lists that weren't very organized and hadn't been updated in years. The format of the page and the content itself basically ensured that virtually no one would use it. We also didn't have a very good link between the Help page and the WinCustomize Wiki.
Today, I'm very happy to launch the first version of the new WinCustomize Help Center!
Please take a stroll through it. Click the links and let me know:
- Any bugs on that page.
Issues such as broken links, wacky formatting errors, images floating in the wrong spots etc. - Links you think should be added
Am I missing a key tutorial? Essential articles? Items that you think should definitely be included but aren't currently. - Any other misc feedback.
Please keep in mind that this is not a full-fledged help system with all sorts of fancy features. It's just a really long HTML page with sections I'm hiding and unhiding depending on what you click on. It is pretty easily expanded and modified though, so I can make reasonable additions fairly quickly.
Huge thanks to: andrew_ & nauticalpixel for all their CSS help, DoctorNick for fixing some annoying JS bugs, and the folks in #stardock for helping test early versions of this page.
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Reply #23 Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:00 PM
An explanation would be nice.
Reply #24 Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:21 PM
And it mentions CSS. CSS, if you didn't know, controls and look and feel of a web site. An acronym for 'Cascading style sheets'.
From the article:
Which means I, in part, designed the page.
Which means if I were to say it looks good, I would be patting myself on the back.
See?
Reply #26 Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:17 PM
I didn't know what CSS is,but I do suffer from CRS.
Nice job,nauticalpixel (and Andrew) 
Reply #27 Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:17 PM
Which means if I were to say it looks good, I would be patting myself on the back.
Sorry I missed that part. Half way through reading I went straight to webpage. I have a habit of doing that.
BTW nice job. 
Reply #28 Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:57 PM
A few nitpicks, I guess:
There should be a link to Bebi's IRC tutorial to go along with the irc.stardock.com mention, so users understand how to get started.
Is it just me or does the 'close' button on the product pop up windows look....aesthetically off?
Other than the hiccups already mentioned by Shelby, it all looks good so far.
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Reply #21 Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:15 PM