[Clipart] BETA OCAL Help Out page changes + navigation ideas

[chovynz]

This is my proposed button or something like it.

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:12 PM, chovynz <chovynz at gmail.com> wrote:

> RE: BETA OCAL Navigation and Help page suggestion.
>
> How would you guys feel if we changed the "Help Out" page title and
> navigation bar to "Volunteer Work".
>
> My reason for suggesting this is to be able to create a basic "Help" page -
> and Nav button - for people to read about how to do certain tasks or moving
> around the Beta site. Or we could put the basic "Help" things I have in mind
> on the "About" page. I am thinking of taking a whole heap of tips and hints
> from the old OCAL site, the Wiki, and with the new ways of doing things on
> the Beta, and putting them into an easy to read and understand format.
>
> My reason for doing THAT is because ever since I joined up to old OCAL it
> took awhile to find out how to do certain things. Mostly by trial and error
> and lots of lots of traveling the web and reading in many places. Because
> I've been involved in the testing of the Beta OCAL, I have found new ways of
> doing things (usually by making mistakes.) I'd like to make navigation and
> doing things on the Beta as simple as possible, and if they don't understand
> that, I want to make a guide for them to follow.
>
> We could use the wiki as a double place (CnP) to put this info, as it's
> similar to the FAQ, however, I have an almost pathological dislike of going
> to a different website to read help info on the same website. I feel
> useability is better when all the main info is right there.
>
> Thoughts?




-- 
Cheers
Chovynz
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