Hey everyone. I just finished adding a site map for the site. We already had one in place for the search engines.

I also added a help section page but need content for it, so this is where you the community comes in

What sort of FAQ's or Help questions and answers should be on the page? Please comment here with your suggestions and ideas and I'll get them added to the page.

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I will add that to the list for the help/FAQ page.

definitely something explaining the different licenses.

Also, something explaining standards, css/xhtml. I had to explain this to a potential client, and I think it would be something that could be used be the less, ummm.. "technical" people who would come to the site. :D

@sean -

Web Standards -

Web standards is a general term for the formal standards and other technical specifications that define and describe aspects of the World Wide Web. In recent years, the term has been more frequently associated with the web standards movement: a growing trend of endorsement of a set of standardized best practices for building web sites, and a broader philosophy of web design and development that includes those methods.

Many interdependent standards and specifications, some of which govern aspects of the Internet, not just the World Wide Web, directly or indirectly affect the development and administration of web sites and web services. While any of these may be called "web standards", advocates within the web standards movement tend to focus on the higher-level standards that most directly affect the accessibility and usability of web sites.

(of course, this is taken from Wikipedia.)

Sure, give me a minute or two and I'll clean it up. along with direct links back to wikipedia.

I don't think you need to link to wikipedia with this version, though I could be wrong. Here is their direct link just in case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_standards

My condensed version:

Web Standards is a general term for the formal standards that describe aspects of the World Wide Web. It tends to be associated with a higher-level of development that has a direct effect on the accessibility and usability of web sites.

Whatever else you need, just ask.

It's looking great!

Here is a simple CSS definition:

Cascading Style Sheets: Language used to describe how an HTML document should be formatted.

Sources

I've added two brief license descriptions to the page.

Does anyone have links to official definitions of the licenses? That would be good to link directly to them.

GNU

Creative Commons

Public Domain not sure about this one.

Posted By: refueled
oops. didnt see your post before I posted mine.

no problem ;o) hehe

Shall we stick a link in to the registration where it says reistration is free?

@sean -

It looks awesome!

What do you think of having a contact form at the bottom for those that still need questions answered?

Posted By: christopher
or maybe a, "need more help?" section, with main contact details etc.

Much better than a contact form. I can just see it being misused.

Christopher's mentioning of staying in touch gave me an idea. Its kinda crazy/would be a pain in the butt to create by hand (although maybe possible through some sort of plugin? not sure) but..
Individual RSS feeds. That way if someone has a favorite designer, they can subscribe to their individual feed and get notified of when they put out a new design. That way someone doesnt have to look through the site-wide RSS feeds to see if their favorite designer has done anything new.

Yeah i agree JeremyD - individual RSS feeds would be great. Also, there could be updates on a kind of "user home page", like new comments from forum topics that they've started or commented on (just like in the SitePoint forums).

This is what I got out of the creative commons:

Attribution: you must attribute the work
Attribution-No Derivs: you must attribute, no alterations
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivs: must attribute, no alterations, not for commercial use
Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike: must attribute, not for commercial use, if you alter/transform work; you may distribute under same license.
Attribution- ShareAlike: must attribute, if you alter/transform work; you may distribute under same license.

I can definitely work on the GPL. but this also sounds like a "who can come up with the best basic description" contest. but thats just me.

Posted By: refueledThis is what I got out of the creative commons:

Attribution:you must attribute the work
Attribution-No Derivs:you must attribute, no alterations
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivs:must attribute, no alterations, not for commercial use
Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike:must attribute, not for commercial use, if you alter/transform work; you may distribute under same license.
Attribution- ShareAlike:must attribute, if you alter/transform work; you may distribute under same license.

I can definitely work on the GPL. but this also sounds like a "who can come up with the bestbasic description" contest. but thats just me." title="">

The only CC license that IMHO is fit for this site is attribution. no commercial is definatly out of the question.

Posted By: snop
Links to resources where people can more about how to edit CSS/XHTML (might help avoid the posts of "I downloaded this template and it looks funny in Frontpage...")

I recommend Real-time HTML Editor. Very handy when editing templates from OD, OSWD, or OWD - although I can only imagine what it must do to bandwidth if a bunch of people use it over and over and over again. Although I guess if you know how to make the editor work for you, then you won't really need it in the first place.

I think maybe for GPL we just keep the dedicated link for people to look at... or look at the other two licenses and see how they're shortened to give a brief understanding of them.

you're doing an awesome job of the help section!

the Attribution CC-GPL is no different to the CC-GPL really!

Just because you have to attribute does not mean you have to do it on the template once you've changed it, this has been talked about before! As long as you not claiming the original as your own your doing nothing wrong by obmitting the original designers name/link/whatever

Just because you have a link saying Created By: so-and-so, you could still remove this and not be inbreach of the CC-GPL. the Attribution does not have to be advertised!

@madrock - quite true, but the CC Attribution license stops trouble like with DreamTemplate, as they would have to credit you and would not be able to sell it on without a credit to the original designer, so it *could* in theory be used to help prevent things like that. we're all so self-centered that it's just about using it for backlinks and attribution on the template itself, but the main reason i use it is people can't sell my designs without giving me proper credit somewhere... get what i'm saying? (not being rude, just not sure if i made sense hehe)