Re: How did *you* learn Web Catalog?
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texte = on 06/09/00 5:08 PM, David Ellsworth at david@musick8.com wrote:> Just wondering what users of Web Catalog would recommend to learn how to use > it effectively. The WC docs are the best place to start....not that they're especially well done, but they're all we have. I wish they had been written by a professional technical writer who speaks English as a native language. Evidently, the tech labor crunch in CA means that SM had to hire some H1-B visa types from Pluto to get it done.> I attended the May class in San Diego and found it fairly useless in getting > started with Web Catalog. > > For me, seeing will be doing, but I wonder what those that have been > successfully using Web Catalog for some time did to learn it.They used it for some time before they used it successfully for any time. Expect to pull your hair out, cuss, drink a lot, take drugs, assault strangers, and stomp your feet a lot before this stuff makes any sense. When you think you have it figured out, you'll stop stomping your feet. > I'm very impressed with what it does - just trying to wade through the docs > and getting further confused in the process.... and the Web Programmer PDF > file for 4.0 keeps crashing my Mac. sheesh!If the PDF docs are causing a problem on your Mac, be sure you have the most recent version of Acrobat Reader. I'm using version 4 and have no problems with crashing. Also give it a little more memory to work with. That may help. > > Thanks in advance for your comments.No problem. Glad I could clear this up for you.> [/david] > -- > David Ellsworth > Plank Road Publishing, Inc. > Publishers of Music K-8 Magazine > http://www.musick8.com > Phone: 414-462-5160 > david@musick8.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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on 06/09/00 5:08 PM, David Ellsworth at david@musick8.com wrote:> Just wondering what users of Web Catalog would recommend to learn how to use > it effectively. The WC docs are the best place to start....not that they're especially well done, but they're all we have. I wish they had been written by a professional technical writer who speaks English as a native language. Evidently, the tech labor crunch in CA means that SM had to hire some H1-B visa types from Pluto to get it done.> I attended the May class in San Diego and found it fairly useless in getting > started with Web Catalog. > > For me, seeing will be doing, but I wonder what those that have been > successfully using Web Catalog for some time did to learn it.They used it for some time before they used it successfully for any time. Expect to pull your hair out, cuss, drink a lot, take drugs, assault strangers, and stomp your feet a lot before this stuff makes any sense. When you think you have it figured out, you'll stop stomping your feet. > I'm very impressed with what it does - just trying to wade through the docs > and getting further confused in the process.... and the Web Programmer PDF > file for 4.0 keeps crashing my Mac. sheesh!If the PDF docs are causing a problem on your Mac, be sure you have the most recent version of Acrobat Reader. I'm using version 4 and have no problems with crashing. Also give it a little more memory to work with. That may help. > > Thanks in advance for your comments.No problem. Glad I could clear this up for you.> [/david] > -- > David Ellsworth > Plank Road Publishing, Inc. > Publishers of Music K-8 Magazine > http://www.musick8.com > Phone: 414-462-5160 > david@musick8.com > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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