Carrying on from last week’s EoTWQ – it seems a lot of fellow ‘spillers would like some sort of instructions manual in order to make posting here a little easier. I for one am missing names I was used to seeing and their posts, which I was used to enjoying before we moved over here. Now, GF (he of the delusions of grandeur) and I (no less so, in that respect) have had an idea. We want to put together a guide to how to post on WordPress. The idea is very simple. Someone who seems to find it very easy (me) is going to send poorly written instructions to someone who finds it infuriatingly complicated (GF). GF is then going to try using those self same instructions and let me know just where the pitfalls lie. We’ll clear up any doubts / grey areas and then come up with a foolproof guide (we hope). This is obviously going to take time but we want to do it a) because we care about the ‘spill and b) because we think it could be useful.
We’re going to start with the music player. Part one will be on how to put together a player just with songs. Part two will be how to put song titles and artist names into the player. We’ll probably move on to how to put pictures into posts and comments.
So, any further requests?
And one from us: Blimpy once we’ve sorted this is there anyway that these guides can be made available on the sidebar?
Signed:
El Bighead
Yes! Yes! Yes! We need a manual! And don’t worry about insulting anyone’s intelligence – make it as Janet-and-John as you like.
Once instructions for part one are sweet we’ll link to a pdf here in comments.
Sounds a great idea to me – especially having it readily available in the side bar. So far, every time I’ve wanted to do a post, I’ve had to trawl through for a previous post of mine and copy what I did then in order to include music links – and it has still tended to take me several attempts to get it to work!
see those 3 tabs at the top – home/ contact/ links
please could another be added ‘manual’ (or ‘dumb arse hints’)
the only problem I see Maki is GF is Mac based – a lot of others are PC based – this does confuse issues sometimes…
(keep me informed – I’m a good idiot to bounce ideas off.. to see if they work)
I’m pc based. GF, as far as I know, is mac based. This seems to me to be a good thing. The idea is to be not so much “How to tie your laces” as “What are shoes and how do we put them on?” so if we’ve got different sized feet and some of us have slip-ons and others lace ups, I think we’ll cover all eventualities. As I said, It’ll take time and no doubt there’ll be a few false starts but it should be worth it.
Shane I’ve already taken you up on your offer and mailed you the revised player notes that GF is working with…
Maki – seems i’ve got flip flops but I’m diligently copying your instructions with great anticipation. Hope to have some free time during the upcoming holidays & I’m eager to try. Thanks to you & Gf for attempting this. Can I be Sancho?
Holy clip-art Batman!!
I mean, yes, I can add a tab at the top.
Maki – I would very much appreciate a manual of some sort – but even more than that I would appreciate an extra two or three hours a day so I could have some time to post – or even to comment on some of the excellent posts that keep cropping up around here.
Ah well, back to the grindstone ….
Donds for what Toffee said!!
Heartfelt donds from me too!
Did someone mention manuals?
Revised player instructions – for a simple tunes only list are available here. Please give ‘em a whirl, try them out in the new post page and check if they work using the preview option. If they’re clear then we’ve made it to first base.