Tutorials Improvements - Feedback needed

[Anatoli]

Hello,

Currently one of the projects our team is working on is updating our tutorials. You can review all of them here (http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/).

We have always wanted to create tools and resources that will best match your requirements and suit your needs. That is why we now need your feedback about our tutorials: let us know what you like and dislike about them, what you would like to find there, what is your preferred tutorial structure, anything you can think of is most welcome, actually.

Please, check them and share your opinion with us.

The tutorials we have worked on the last couple of days are:

Joomla 1.5 Tutorial (http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/joomla15/index.htm)

Wordpress Tutorial (http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/index.htm)

phpBB 3 Tutorial (http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/phpbb3/index.htm)

Thank you in advance for your feedback!

[Gossioii4]

Good post! I plan to move into this stuff after I’m done with school, as most of it is time consuming. It’s a great post to reference back to. My blog needs more time to gain in popularity anyway.

[BradLee]

As of MedaWiki v1.14 there have been some substantial changes to the MonoBook.php

In ADDITION to the instructions listed in the tutorial here (http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/mediawiki/mediawiki_skins.htm), the following lines also need to be changed in MyWikiSkin.php


// Append to the default screen common & print styles...
$out->addStyle( 'monobook/main.css', 'screen' );
if( $wgHandheldStyle ) {
// Currently in testing... try 'chick/main.css'
$out->addStyle( $wgHandheldStyle, 'handheld' );
}

$out->addStyle( 'monobook/IE50Fixes.css', 'screen', 'lt IE 5.5000' );
$out->addStyle( 'monobook/IE55Fixes.css', 'screen', 'IE 5.5000' );
$out->addStyle( 'monobook/IE60Fixes.css', 'screen', 'IE 6' );
$out->addStyle( 'monobook/IE70Fixes.css', 'screen', 'IE 7' );
$out->addStyle( 'monobook/rtl.css', 'screen', '', 'rtl' );
}



wfRunHooks( 'MonoBookTemplateToolboxEnd', array( &$this ) );
wfRunHooks( 'SkinTemplateToolboxEnd', array( &$this ) );
?>


Without these changes it will not work.

So you might want to either include the specific instructions above, or modify the tutorial with a general "change all occurrences of monobook with mywikiskin."

HTH,

BradLee

[Hristo.P]

Hello BradLee,

Thank you for your feedback. The tutorial has been updated. I believe all necessary changes are described now.

[Joeychgo]

what about the vBulletin tutorials? Going to be upgrading those soon?

[Anatoli]

Yes, vBulletin will be updated soon too :)

[gentle]

As a newbee at 59, I ended up trying to build a website using SB. The tutorial made it look so easy, and it was, up to the point when I needed to look up in the tutorial "how to create sub-menus" on my page. Not a word about Folders or how to create new folders in the tree. The tutorial showed procedures and pages that were quite different from "mine" and I am stuck.

Q1: Are you also improving SB tutorial or is SB on same downturn as Frontpage ?
Q2: Can someone tell me how to make pull-down (2nd level, 3rd level etc.) menues "under" the main buttons on the site? I have made the Pages but cannot make new Folders to drag the pages to.

[Val]

I don't believe you can make a full featured drop-down menu using SiteBuilder. For this, you would need a lot of knowledge about JavaScript, especially if you would like to create it yourself and not to use a already configured and coded example.

You can search Google (or any search engine) for drop down javascript and you will be able to find quite a lot already configured scripts you can use as an example.

You would then need to edit the HTML code of the page itself however and this can be done only via the PRO version of the SiteBuilder.

[gentle]

This sounds too advanced for me. But I still wonder how I can create folders in the tree, and what will 2nd level/3rd level pages be if not under the main page?

[Niko]

Hello Gentle,

The functionality which you are referring to is also a feature of the Professional version of SiteBuilder. For more detailed information about the additional features that the Pro version has you can refer to the following tutorial:

https://www.siteground.com/sitebuilder_pro.htm

[bodyforum]

thanks that's really a good stuff actually i have done ccna in may 2009 and was looking for the tutorials if you can give a brief summary on the commands used in networking than that will be very helpful.

[Val]

CCNA has absolutely nothing to do with the hosting service thus I'm afraid that this forum would not be an appropriate place to search for such articles and tutorials :)

[Collin1000]

Your IPB tutorials are out of date, Version 3 is out now.
http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/ipb/index.htm

The ACP was fully redesined.


If you want someone to update the screenshots for you I would be happy to. :)

[Anatoli]

Thanks for the suggestion, Collin.

It is true that our efforts are not concentrated on IPB at the moment. We will consider update for it soon but I am not sure exactly when.

Also thank you for suggesting your help. I think we can open a new topic in the forum for sharing experience and tutorials about your favorite applications.