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[paulrobertlloyd]

What part of the documentation isn’t clear?

A number of people have requested a means of seeing the admin interface before getting started with the project.

How could the documentation be improved?

A number of options:

1. Include more screenshots
2. Record a screencast (😰)
3. Provide an online demo – would require integration with a content store and periodic resets of the store and the database.

[yozlet]

I recommend starting with screenshots: they provide most of what people want to know about the experience. You can get super complicated with screenshots (and may need to, eventually) but you can start with a couple of basic grabs in five minutes and that's already an improvement.

Bear in mind that there's a big difference between using screenshots just to show what the UI looks like, versus using them as part of the documentation (e.g. when illustrating how to do a common task). The latter use requires more careful and consistent setup, along with updates when the UI changes.

Try starting with a page called "Screenshots" or "User interface". Bring the browser window size down to 800px wide or less, otherwise the text may be too small and there'll be big expanses of empty space. (I'm sure you get all this already, but hey, maybe you won't be the only one reading this advice.)

[yozlet]

And if you want help with a screencast, yell! I've done a few more of them since the Ning days. 😄

[paulrobertlloyd]

@yozlet! Great to hear from you!

I recommend starting with screenshots: they provide most of what people want to know about the experience.

Yeah, I think that would be a really good start. Keep it simple, etc.

And if you want help with a screencast, yell! I've done a few more of them since the Ning days.

I might take you up on that offer; I’d like to have a screencast for the 1.0 release, once I know that things are a bit more settled in the UI.