Site Expansion

Beta 10 of Blocks looks like it's working pretty well. There have been few reports of any bugs so it's now entering the final stages of release. There will be precious few, if any, changes between beta 10 and the final version 1.1, but one that will be made is becoming available today -- more documentation.

Since the early days of Blocks I've hesitated to write much down. As with my other development I find that once the tool is in the hand of a bunch of users they tend to do stuff with it that I had never really considered. My hope was that by insisting that people explore the interface and learn by doing that: #1 I'd build a much more intuitive product and #2 people would find more bugs because they'd use it in ways that I hadn't even thought about documenting.

But when the final version rolls around, people really need some details. So I've added the standard set of pages to my Blocks area. You'll find pages on Installation, a really basic Quick Start, how to Register, and a Reference that touches on every piece of the interface.

It's all pretty rough. Lots of bad grammar, just like this sentence. Probably lots of spelling errors too. Being married to a profession editor makes you a bit lazy that way. In the next few days Christi will probably rewrite a good deal of it -- so let it sit a week or so before you all send me a note saying how bad it is.