Hey there (sending to FM-discuss and civicrm-book),<br><br>Today we did a fair amount of work creating the user and administrator exercise book for CiviCRM. Still lots more completing of exercises and proof reading, etc., to do but we think there is a decent structure in place now and shouldn't be too hard to finish off.<br>
<br>We transferred the exercises (actually we are now calling them tasks for some reason) from the wiki to the book and came up with a standard task format, which is basically:<br><ul><li>summary of the task</li><li>instructions on how to do the task (numbered if there are a lot of them)</li>
<li>data that should be used in the task (in formatted)<br></li><li>space for notes (you can write on paper with a pen or pencil, FYI)<br></li><li>any tips about the task<br></li></ul>The book has three sections:<br><ul><li>
intro</li><li>exercises<br></li><li>finding out more<br></li></ul>The exercise section is broken down into chapters which are one-to-one with a hands one session that we will carry out during the training. The chapters (h1) are further broken down into h2s to help people find their way through the exercises.<br>
<br>You can see the work in progress here: <a href="http://booki.flossmanuals.net/civicrm-user-and-admin-exercises/_full/">http://booki.flossmanuals.net/civicrm-user-and-admin-exercises/_full/</a><br><br>We plan to make each task summary an h3 and then style the css with an image to the left of the heading to show it is a task (rather than what we are currently doing which is bolding them and sticking a image above them.<br>
<br>I think we'll handle the notes area by making an image with a fair amount of vertical white space and a 'keep with before' to avoid any nasty page breaks and avoid any nasty page breaks).<br><br>It would be great if we could get some div handling or something similar for 'data' and for 'tips' to avoid us using but I know that can be a huge pain so not holding my breath :)<br>
<br>Hopefully I haven't gone into too much detail here and people are still with me :)<br><br>Would be good to get people's feedback on what we have done so far and if people have any time to improve what we have done that would be awesome.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Michael<br><br>-- <br><font style="color:rgb(102, 102, 102)" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"></span><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Michael McAndrew</span><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">
<span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">07817 802299 (mobile)</span><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Third Sector Design Ltd.</span><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">
<a href="http://thirdsectordesign.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">http://thirdsectordesign.org</span></a><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><br style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><span style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">For support, email <a href="mailto:support@thirdsectordesign.org" target="_blank">support@thirdsectordesign.org</a></span></font><br>