[OFBiz] Users - feedback on tutorials

[Si Chen]

Hi everyone.  Thanks for the help reading through this.

I'll try to incorporate more graphics rather than text displays in the 
future...

All of the code you are seeing is in the <pre> blocks.  Not really 
possible to highlight stuff in there, unfortunately.

I'll put in a word about freemarker and eclipse in the tutorial.  Do you 
think I'm exaggerating by saying that freemarker is "very easy, intuitive"?

Ruth--do you know why it's scrolling so far to the right?  I'm not quite 
sure but if you (or anyone) knows of a fix, please let me know.

Si

Ruth Hoffman wrote:

> Daniel Kunkel wrote:
>
>> Si
>>
>> Your tutorial is brilliant, and is a wonderful addition to help jump
>> start people with getting started with OFBiz. I think this will really
>> help out the project!
>>
>> Mostly I just look forward to seeing additional installments which I see
>> you've already started, but as you we're looking for feedback I did
>> notice one thing...
>>
>> Would it be very difficult to note (bold?) the changes made to the
>> hello1 controller file?
>> Thanks for doing this!!!  Hopefully David can get a link to this in the
>> OFBiz.org site soon.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 16:55 -0700, Si Chen wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I've made some ofbiz tutorials at 
>>> http://www.opensourcestrategies.com/ofbiz/tutorials.php
>>>
>>> I'd like to get your feedback and suggestions on these.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Si
>>>
>>>
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> Agreed. This is great. Thanks Si!
>
> A couple of things, which are not meant to detract from the usefulness 
> of this...
>
> 1) If I were looking at this without any knowledge of OFBiz 
> development, I'd wonder why you are in the "Eclipse" root directory. 
> So, maybe a quick word or two about Eclipse and how it fits in. Maybe 
> all you need to say is something like this:
>
> Since OFBiz is relocatable and completely self-contained, it may run 
> anywhere on your system. For example, for this tutorial we have chosen 
> to deploy our OFBiz framework so that we may manage development using 
> the Eclipse IDE. This is not necessary. In fact, you may have several 
> versions of OFBiz resident on your computer at anytime, some installed 
> within the Eclipse directory tree, and others not. Of course, you may 
> only "run" a single version of OFBiz at any time.
>
> 2) The part about Freemaker would also be confusing to me. Maybe a 
> word about why freemarker and not plain old .html files. I'm not sure 
> what would work here...but for a newbie, I think Freemarker is a real 
> red-herring that needs to be addressed right up front.
>
> 3) OK, this is petty, but I'm just going to mention it anyhow - the 
> style sheet needs some work - on both Safari and Firefox, text scrolls 
> way to far to the right and I can't read the content without 
> scrolling. That makes following the tutorial flow  difficult.
>
> But, again, great job!
>
> Ruth
>
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