Simple Front Page, Paragraph Style

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Fri May 6 22:46:53 UTC 2005


On 5/6/05, thegreedyturtle <thegreedyturtle at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Most of you are probably been wondering who I am, which makes sense,
> since I've only posted to this list once for a simple mail filter, but
> I've been paying attention to this email list, and keeping my ear on
> #ubuntu-doc. I'm usually in there but I don't say much...
> 
> I wrote that UbuntuHowCome on the wiki, but I'm not sure what kind of
> future it has. I think for now it's a pretty good placeholder until some
> real stuff gets done like the QuickGuide.
> 
> I'm 23, live in Columbus, Ohio, I'm a programming student, and I'm broke
> and looking for a job. (any tips? email me directly at
> thegreedyturtle at gmail.com) In case you are wondering about the handle,
> it's a pet I had once. I've been working with Linux for a few years, but
> I just switched over to Linux on the Desktop with Ubuntu Hoary, so it's
> only been a couple of months... Everything before that has been command
> line, but that's mostly been configurating stuff other people made, so
> simple sysadmin work. I have also done small office administration and
> networking, but with WinXP.
> 
> Anyway, I'm hoping to get more involved with the documentation team,
> although I've got some side projects that might jump up in my face in
> the future.
> 
> The reason I'm finally introducing myself is because I've made a new
> version of the SimpleFrontPage, at
> https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/ParagraphStyleSimpleFrontPage.
> 
> It basically takes the SimpleFrontPage, and adds some paragraphs to
> better describe each section, and puts hardware in the documentation
> section. The real bones will be inside said documentation section and
> Community section, which if people like what they see here, I'll try and
> get some ideas out here as well. I'm not going to bulk up this email
> about it since most of my comments are on the page itself.
> 
> I'll try to get my mail if I have a chance, but I'll be gone over the
> weekend, so I probably won't respond to your comments as promptly as I
> would like to.
> 
> Cheers,
> thegreedyturtle
> 
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Can we keep the paragraphs to the secondary pages? One good sentence
is enough verbage for people to discover where they need to go. Any
more and they are likely not to read it.

Just my thoughts.

Corey




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