WhyNot?

Member Maintained HELP page

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It would be helpful if the Why Not? site could have a HELP page, and also perhaps an FAQ. For instance, I have been struggling to get the HREF command to work on this site because I did not know that the site is case sensitive. (E.g. <A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com"> Yahoo! </A> will not work.)

With a HELP or FAQ page one will have an easy way to look up known issues or to figure out problems. To make maintenance a non-issue, the members themselves could sustain these pages.

Limbak, Feb 22 2004

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Thanks for helping me right, rebolin, but what you have just said strengthens my case. Since I am not a programmer, I had to look up the href command on the web. And guess what I found – an example using CAPS.

Now back to my original request for a HELP or FAQ page, not everyone hitting this site actually knows what is going one here, and not everyone has the time to read the suggested books, or study HTML to participate. Instead, if usability is something to be desired, then you want to make it as easy as possible for people to participate – including for old farts like me. So I suggest that this page will address a number of issues, not only HTML. After all, we do not all think alike, and what is easy for you might be tough for someone else.

Limbak, Feb 22 2004

We could use a Wiki for this--that is common practise with many software systems.

dumllama, Jun 29 2005

There are a lot of software programmers of various experience and expertise. Perhaps a workgroup could be initiated to develop a better web interface. At the same time they would be able to market their developments for similar commercial interoffice knowledge development.