Brian Burger ha scritto:
Great effort, but one thing bugged me right away on first scanning the site: The "Inkscape Gallery User's Guide" as a downloadable PDF. No. You are running an online website. Your help/FAQ/user's guide should also be online, built right into your website.
A downloadable PDF should be an available option (maybe) but certainly not the first choice for providing users with information...
Brian.
Brian, i agree with you. But i invite you to take a longer tour in inkscape gallery to see that there's already what you're suggesting me to do. The inkscape gallery website is full of help tips and you have a detailed explanation in the most delicate operation you do in IG that is the image publishing stuff. There is a f.a.q page too, that is linked in the menu at the bottom of the page and in your personal menu when you log in. I guess you didn't notice it, indeed it is not complete and we're going (with your help, i hope...) to update giving useful informations. You find it here: http://www.inkscapegallery.net/en/faq
The "inkscape gallery user's guide" is meant to do something different, i don't know if you downloaded the pdf, at last, but it is an IG overall presentation: you have technical explanations, the features listing, credits and then you have a deep look in some of the website sections like the menus, quickstart, artists and more, with snapshots and some text. This is not meant to be embedded in a website, even if i'm planning to make a video to show a "demo" of the website and i will embed this eventually...
I think you're right when you say that a pdf it's not the first choice to provide information, and nobody thought to use it in this way...It is something more, i did it to give you a magnifying glass to see inkscape gallery deeply and to show what the IG project is, and what IG can do. It is made with scribus and that is another "value", the icing on the cake (...don't beat me for this :-) ) I give you the file address again, in case you'd like to see it: http://inkscapegallery.net/files/inkscapegallery.pdf
Thank you, Da. http://inkscapegallery.net