Mac OS X Snow Leopard Tutorials Links

[DoFoT9]

visually appealing is always important, but it must also be usable. gotta compromise

[Fahad]

but this forum is kind of archive, I mean we only post tutorials here for other discussions or requests we have another forum, maybe we should make sticky with list of tutorials, or maybe break them into categories i.e security tutorials,performance tutorials

[DoFoT9]

thats a good idea. whats the likelyhood of having something like the MR Guides? thats pretty usable and it could be modified to look attractive with art-work etc. sort of a sub-MozyMac thing, but we could link to it still without taking people outside.

something to think about anyway

[Fahad]

thats a good idea. whats the likelyhood of having something like the MR Guides? thats pretty usable and it could be modified to look attractive with art-work etc. sort of a sub-MozyMac thing, but we could link to it still without taking people outside.

something to think about anyway

I'm not getting it why add a wiki, which we will have to install design when we have fully working forum which is better ?

[Fahad]

I'm adding google custom search soon so people can find tutorials easier, although you can still find stuff from here: http://www.mozymac.com/forums/search.php

[DoFoT9]

I'm not getting it why add a wiki, which we will have to install design when we have fully working forum which is better ?

a wiki type thing is beneficial for a number of reasons
1. it gets rid of posts - if the information is presented to people in a readable manner (without the off-topic-ness of a forum) then they can understand it better
2. its more organised - the likelihood that people will hang around because of an easier to use interface is highly likely. the wiki would only have relevant posts for people to learn, and not articles about "HELP IM STUCK" type things.

im out of ideas, im sure there are plenty more lol.

[Omi]

A forum is just not user friendly. Nobody wants to go searching around for posts on a certain topic.
I like jmann's idea.

Click on a link for tutorials, and it takes you to a page with a dock like thing. Click on the icon of the app you need a tutorial for, and it will you a list of tutorials for that app. Once you find a tutorial you want, click it and it will take you to a thread with the tutorial

;D

-Omi

[Fahad]

A forum is just not user friendly. Nobody wants to go searching around for posts on a certain topic.
I like jmann's idea.

Click on a link for tutorials, and it takes you to a page with a dock like thing. Click on the icon of the app you need a tutorial for, and it will you a list of tutorials for that app. Once you find a tutorial you want, click it and it will take you to a thread with the tutorial

;D

-Omi

and how the hell we are going to do this

[Fahad]

other thing is, people don't have to see post (let them just see the 1st post)? my problem is duplicate content, it's widely known that it's very harmful for search engines to have duplicate content.

we can make a sticky thread containing links to threads that will have links to tutorials depending on category.

e.g:

sticky thread: List of mac os x tutorials.

" here are links to threads containing links to tutorials depending on category:

1) security: URL....

etc.."

other thing is, The links to the tutorials will only show the tutorial post i.e my post

[DoFoT9]

that could work, not as pretty as you could get - but would certainly present the data easily.