My First Tutorial For Plone

Yesterday was certainly a red-letter day for me, cause I managed to write my first tutorial.  I  used to think that such kind of tasks are somewhat boring and that it's impossible to get pleasure out of them.  I should admit to have been mistaken about that, 'cause it appeared to be fun in reality.     

The tutorial I was to write was ordered by one of Quintagroup's clients. He was using Plone Content Management System and wanted to cast light on the question of changing and setting different display views.  As it had to be my first tutorial, I decided to look through a couple of tutorials placed on the website of Quintagroup to have at least some general idea about it. After that I learned as much as possible about display views in Plone and started writing the tutorial under wise supervision of Ihor Berehulyak. 

The stage, on which I was doing screenshots, is especially memorable, cause having no Photoshop in Linux, I had to use its pretty cool analogue called the GIMP. It turned out to be a great graphical editor, if we forget about the moments when it totally refused to paste full screenshots. But I'm not ill-minded after all. Due to the Gimp I got all screenshots needed for my tutorial in one folder, and had them transported to NVU, an incredibly convenient visual html editor to use as it allows to switch between html source and preview mode. The text itself above the screenshots was not very difficult to write, although it's understandable that only after I write a few more tutorials I will be able to choose the right words quickly.

The tutorial I was writing is now placed on the website of Quintagroup. Probably, later it will be possible to have it on plone.org.

It seems to me the most difficult thing in writing this tutorial was to keep in mind that I shouldn't assume that “everyone already knows this”.

What I was happy to discover was the following truth:
You don't need to know everything to write a tutorial.  Just what is contained in it.