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Hi Joss, First of all, I think your tutorial is fantastic. It really provides an excellent overview of ProcessWire and helps people unfamiliar with the system get acquainted with it very quickly. I also think it is well written, fun and easy to follow. So, answering your question, I've gone through the whole tutorial, following every step, and I successfully ended up with the website I was supposed to get. I didn't find any problems at any stage of the process. I've also decided to upload the demo to my server so that you can see the result I got. Here's the demo: edit: link removed I hope that helps. Claudio

It sounds like a fantastic idea, Matthew, and I certainly agree that Codeigniter has some of the best documentation I've come across with, so it could act as an example to aspire to. In my opinion, and as Soma mentioned in another thread, the main problem novice users face when looking for information is that, more often than not, they don't really know what to look for, so the odds of them finding the right info are pretty slim. I really believe that having 'how-to" articles that address a wide array of different case scenarios would help diminish this problem, and make the current documentation more beginner friendly. The small project walkthrough tutorial that Ryan posted some time ago is a superb example of how this can be implemented. This tutorial helps ProcessWire newcomers understand how the most basic actions are executed in the system, and provides information that will be of use in projects that go far beyond the scope of the case study Ryan proposes. I can say this tutorial helped me understand the system. In my opinion, ProcessWire's documentation is already quite good, but I think, looking at the future, we should go the extra mile to make things easier for those users with less experience with PHP. As it turns out, the number of designers using ProcessWire seems to be growing, and this can only be regarded as a good thing. Adding a collection of project walkthroughs, or how-to articles to the documentation, be that through processwire.com or through any other website, is going to make ProcessWire much more attractive to a much wider audience. This is just my opinion, anyway. Claudio

I couldn't agree more with you, Soma. As a newcomer to this forum, I already feel part of the community, part of this family that is ProcessWire. I really can't think of another online forum I've been a part of that is as friendly, open and helpful as this one. I think this might be due to the fact that we are all so passionate about ProcessWire and that we just don't mind to devote some of our time to help others that are as passionate as we are about this system. I would also like to thank Ryan, our man on the wire, for being so kind, patient and helpful. As for the future, well, only time will tell. We might as well just enjoy what we have here and what will be, will be. @apeisa: pretty relevant example, haha.

@joshuag: thank you for the kind words , they mean a lot to me!

@joshuag: That is my impression, too. In fact, I'm really amazed at the overall professional level we have here at Processwire: top designers, top developers and even more importantly, a group of passionate and friendly people eager to help each other. Simply priceless!

@diogo: thank you for your feedback on my site, I appreciate it

Congrats diogo, you've done a fantastic job here. I think the site is beautiful, attractive, bold. The minimalism of the homepage is great as well. Keep up the good work!

I've used Fontdeck, Google Fonts and Typekit, and have to say all three have been pretty reliable. In terms of font selection, there's no doubt Typekit has the edge here. Then, Google Fonts is really attractive not only because it's free but also because it's got some very attractive fonts, like Lato, for example, which I'm currently using on my own site. Fontdeck is also great, but their pricing structure doesn't work well for me, as you have to pay for fonts in an individual basis (Proxima Nova Light, Proxima Nova Regular and Proxima Nova Semibold would be considered as three fonts). I'm also not a huge fan of Typekit's dependency on Javascript. So, I use Google Fonts whenever I can but rely on Typekit when I need a wider font selection. Claudio

I think the new look is fantastic, and just what the project needed. The new design, as others have mentioned, is modern, fresh, and more in tune with current design aesthetics. This is not to say I didn't like the previous design, which I loved, but I think this new look really gives it an edge. Typography and colours look superb on the iPad with retina display, and the buttons in the homepage look attractive and enticing. I also think, as someone mentioned, that the focus on ProcessWire's main selling points is an absolute winner. It lets visitors know, at a quick glance, what the system is all about. The icons used to present this information are also very appropriate, as they provide extra relevant information to help visitors process all the info immediately. So, congratulations to those who worked in the new look, you did a great job. Claudio

Hi Joss, Thank you for the link, I think this could be very useful for future reference. I've actually used some of the frameworks mentioned in the article, namely Twitter Bootstrap, Foundation and the Golden Grid System. I find this kind of frameworks to be very useful for certain projects, and they certainly save a ton of time. My beef with them, though, is that whenever I use any of these in a project, I find myself somehow changing the way I like to work to really take advantage of their power. So, what I'm currently doing is using my own, home-made "framework". This approach has worked great for me so far. Anyway, this is actually my first of hopefully many posts to come. Claudio