Improving the Internet docs

[Matthew East]

* Phil Bull:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 22:27 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
>> I'd like to understand better the proposal. Are you suggesting having
>> different topics on the front page of the help system, or just having
>> different categories under the main heading of "Internet"? If the
>> latter, I have no objections. If the former, I'd be very concerned about
>> increasing the number of topics on the front page in the absence of a
>> special justification to do so.
> 
> It's definitely the latter!

Ok, fine. As I understand it you'd like to have a number of different
articles linked under the Internet topic; how about simply using a book
with a different chapter for each of your sub-topics? I think it's
helpful for the user to see the table of contents so that the structure
of the Internet section is clear.

> Regarding the number of topics on the front
> page, what do you think about removing 'Advanced Topics' and having a
> new 'More topics...' link? This would give us a 'miscellaneous' section
> which, while not ideal, would at least allow the other documentation to
> be linked to.

I'd rather keep "Advanced", because it at least tells the user
*something* about what is to be found in that section, so the beginner
won't waste time looking in there. If there is documentation which isn't
currently included in the scheme, I think we can figure out how to fit
it in.

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