Has anyone...?
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...Written any guides for Concrete5 in SIMPLE NON-GEEK language... i.e. something my clients 23 yr old receptionist who has only opened Microsoft Word 10x in her life could understand?
Most of what you see on the left-hand column under basics on the main Concrete5 Documentation page should be in non-geek language. If that doesn't seem to work, check outhttp://www.sixeightmedia.net/support... and click on "CMS Documentation." That's a basic version that I provide to my clients using the CMS.
There's a pretty good word doc posted by tom here:
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/documentation_efforts/use...
That's the one I recommend :-), although it might be slightly out of date... but still covers most of it. Not sure if he has been keeping it updated.
http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/documentation_efforts/use...
That's the one I recommend :-), although it might be slightly out of date... but still covers most of it. Not sure if he has been keeping it updated.
You have to understand where they're coming from - editing a website is intimidating for someone who has never done it before. Keep that in mind.
Here's what I've been doing lately that has helped me GREATLY. I've launched 4 C5 websites in the past couple of weeks for non-technical clients: Jing screencasts based on their site. Seriously, you will save yourself alot of time, emails and phone calls. For some reason, even the least technical just 'get it' when it's you using their own website.
My screencasts are actually usually the same thing - here's how you log in, here's how you edit your page, yada yada but for some reason when you show them their own site, it just clicks.
I'm going to sign up for the pro version on the next one I have to do. Totally worth it.
http://www.jingproject.com/
Here's what I've been doing lately that has helped me GREATLY. I've launched 4 C5 websites in the past couple of weeks for non-technical clients: Jing screencasts based on their site. Seriously, you will save yourself alot of time, emails and phone calls. For some reason, even the least technical just 'get it' when it's you using their own website.
My screencasts are actually usually the same thing - here's how you log in, here's how you edit your page, yada yada but for some reason when you show them their own site, it just clicks.
I'm going to sign up for the pro version on the next one I have to do. Totally worth it.
http://www.jingproject.com/
Good call as well my friend... I'm going to investigate this as an 'additional' service for clients for $50 or something like that.
If you let me know what exactly your looking for, I may be able to whip something out real fast this afternoon.
Bill