Is a Question a Tutorial??

Might be sometimes. Most often the questions are solved so we learn from them hence they can be treated as tutorials. 

As for , stepwise tutorials there should be one sticky post listing all of them

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hehe.. is Zu your tooter? (tutor)

Zu is mi hereohh

I understand that when these are solved it helps people learn, but that can happen in the other forum.  The problem with a sticky list of tutorials is that i think thats what this whole forum was designed for, so people would have 1 location to find the tutorials and one to post q's etc.

Perhaps tuts should be linked directly to Wiki pages.

Great to no Zu is or eroh.....

Yes that can happen in another forum too. But if you look under Forum Categories Menu, there is no DesktopX under OS Customization. Its only under the drop down list while creating post.

This may be one of the reasons why most questions are being posted there because 'DesktopX Tutorials' is easier to find.

I will avoid posting my queries there next time onwards.

Ironic that this is posted in the tutorials forum.

My last post there will be some 6 or 8 months back.

Iron is needed to get stronger.

I've been wondering this, too. My best guess is that DesktopX Tutorial link is in the right-hand menu and therefore more visible than the DesktopX link, so people just use that.

I know for me, I posted in here cause, I could not really find a good place to ask desktopx scripting questions.  And  I noticed that there were already questions posted here, so I though this was the place to ask.

Even if you post only stepwise tutorials there, will they really be stepwise? The posts are listed acc to recent activity and hence they are random in sequence.

So it is quite possible that tutorials will not be in order they were actually published. When I was relativelly very new to DX, I felt there should be at least one sticky post indexing all stepwise tutorials in order. Fortunately, I found one non-sticky post listing all stepwise tutorials in order.

Its non sticky....

My thought, for whatever it's worth is that Tutorials should be in the Wiki. Unfortunately, the Wiki isn't being maintained well....no blame is being cast, not any fingers pointed.

Sometime back I suggested an update of the Wiki with videoclips like "The Video Professor".

Stardock could even make money on it (and the authors as well) with DVD's for sale on each piece of software, made by the preeminent artists and software developers.

Many folks would like to learn to skin, so why not put together something like this in conjunction with Stardock? There could be surveys taken to see if the idea is popular or not....it might well not be. As things stand, it's all a matter of posted questions, hit and miss answers and then lost information...leading to repetitious questions.

As for questios and posts appearing not in their best places, that's more a question of Moderation. An "on call Mod" could read the submitted post and assign it to an appropriate section. A longer "Recent Activity" type section might also alleviate some of this problem.

As I said, this is just my opinion, and I'm only trying to be constructive.

Good point...lol!!!! 

I've actually seen topics that were Tutorials on how to ask a question.

There should be another Desktopx forum, if you don't want folks asking for help in this one.

You are absolutely right Roman...a tutorial section should be just that...tutorials.

Home | OS Customization | DesktopX

https://forums.wincustomize.com/forum/37

Hard to find, since on the right the only thing that comes up under Desktopx, is Tutorials.

...........and as you are well aware, search doesn't work.

The tutorial one is super useflu . . so it's there.  Putting the one I linked there would be nice . . but then it might look crowded.  And if we took off the tutorials . . we'd lose a valuable resource.

Website design is full of choices . . the trick is to find balance.  Much like life. 

Fair enough, it would be better if search worked, we'd find it and there would be no need to have a permanent link

wow,invisible forum sections?...and no search?...sad.

no wonder people are posting in the wrong sections...that might explain why a tutorial I wrote only had 2 responses...I put under skinning...not tutorials...d'oh!

I.R.- The Mods can switch it...maybe pop it back up on the Recent list so folks can see it. I'd certainly like to see it.

well nutz... I thought this was a tutorial on questions.... or a question on tutorials?

now that im at it, where would one post questions about question tutorials or tutorials about questioning tutorials?? the whole thing is very questionable to me.. dam im confuzled now...

im not a fan of the wiki mainly because i dont know how to use it right, and it does not show up in the fashion that this forum does here on WC, making it less usefull to noobs and experienced users alike, i never think to look on it.  I come here and check the DexktopX forums for questions (i might be able to help with) etc. 

I agree that its hard to find the other forum if you do not know where to look for it, maybe if the right side menu could show "related" forums?  Ie, if i click on the DesktopX Tutorials forum, it would show in a section called "related"  Os Customizations / DesktopX and other forums that might be related.

I dont know what the answer is, im just posting something i noticed.  I dont think the Tutorial forum used to get this much attention, i guess its good that people are here looking, who knows..

It doesn't really have to do with "maintence." No one is adding anything to it. That's how a wiki works: it's a community effort, if the community doesn't help add to it, it won't grow.

I wrote a How to add a New Page article that gives some basic formatting examples as well as tips and guidelines. There's even a Tutorial Template that you can use and just replace the text, the setup is already there. The Tutorials Category also gives more help and information.

The best advice I can give is to look at the other tutorials and articles to see how the formatting works.

And as for it not showing up in the same fashion...I've been asking for a Wiki link in the top navigation since the Wiki was opened (June 2007). "Not until WC2k8/9" and now we're not getting a new design til later this year?

I never see the wiki.I forget we even have one.Sadly,the few times I accidently found it,it didnt have the info I needed.

2 things that have never gone together...Stardock and manuals.

How to Post a Question: Tutorial

If you are that dumb, rich, hire someone to do it for you.

End of Tutorial

tutorials could also be locked posts so that there can be no replies.