Sunday 6 April 2008

Notes from the red book - part 4

Help pages A selection of pages intended to help users with various things. Including stuff about the site and creative writing in general.

- Writing advice/exercises Help and tips on creative writing, as well as exercises intended to improve writing skills
- user written - wiki? Help pages could be user written, possibly as a selection of articles or in wiki form
- FAQ for the site
- Manifesto about openness Talking about the benefits of collaboration and openness as well as reasons behind using open source technology, etc
- Recommendations about what to use with the site Programmes that can be used to access the site or in conjunction with it
- - Firefox (no need to write spell check programme) Firefox has a built-in spell-checker, which would remove the need to have one built into the editor
- - Commons licensing Creative Commons licensing and why to use it, etc
- - Recommend open source programmes In general, such as things like Open Office/AbiWord or Linux, etc