use of alerts on the help wiki

[Phil Bull]

Hi Matt,

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 08:52 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> Andrew Sayers wrote to me off list recently to point out that there is
> a broad range of different techniques used on the help wiki to draw
> attention to particular important points in articles. To address this,
> he has designed some simple macros which permit us simply to insert
> various alerts in pages.
[...]
> So, do people think that this would be helpful in the wiki to
> standardise the use of alerts? I have to say that I really like the
> idea. Thanks to Andrew for having this idea and the skill to implement
> it too!

The alerts look good, but I'm concerned that they will be over-used. If
the macro is installed on the wiki, can someone please make sure that
there's a page providing guidelines on their usage in the wiki guide?
The GNOME style guide [1] already has some advice.

Thanks,

Phil

[1] -
http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdp-style-guide/stable/infodesign-18.html.en

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