New cPanel Docs

[cPanelNick]

The preview of the new cPanel docs is here:

http://www.cpdocs.com/docs/

Please post comments in this thead.

 

[chirpy]

Pretty Flash

Wrong menu mentioned in step 1 of:
http://www.cpdocs.com/docs/Virus_Scan.htm

Image on the Getting Started page is a bmp and rather huge

 

[sawbuck]

Seems good as far as it goes. Never could get it to load in Firefox. Assume we will see similar docs for WHM? Hopefully more in depth?

 

[Infopro]

Very nice. More in depth would be nice, but this is good, much better than the old ones.

 

[ThaMATRiX]

loads in firefox for me.

 

[JraNil]

I think you can do some optimize on it for firefox.
The UI is pretty nice and it is content is more better than the old one.

 

[AceWeb]

Not sure why it was needed to be done in flash, book it looks good.

 

[anand]

Nice UI, loads fine in firefox. Though the mouse overs don't look that attractive.

 

[nickn]

They are looking good...I'll write up some suggestions, but good job :D

 

[DaveUsedToWorkHere]

Please keep the comments coming. We are still working on getting these updated and together. The new WHM documentation is in progress, and close to being completed.

Note: We will have someone on staff to update the docs and implement suggestions that we believe will improve the documentation.

-Dave
cPanel Inc.

 

[anup123]

Question Regarding Permission To Do This:

ProxyPass /cphelp/ http://www.cpdocs.com/docs/
ProxyPassReverse /cphelp/ http://www.cpdocs.com/docs/

So that the skel page moved on new accounts have the help documentation appear as being accessible from the domain (obviously with the index.shtml page edited to contain the same)

Yes i have mod_proxy installed.
Any disadvantage of doing this?

Thanks
Anup

 

[SarcNBit]

Note: We will have someone on staff to update the docs and implement suggestions that we believe will improve the documentation.

That is good news. Thank you.

 

[challii]

PDF Version

Some of our users have mentioned they would like a PDF version, or at least a version that flowed nicely to enable printing of the whole manual.

Possibly not sure if this is possible, but a reseller version of the WHM manual so they dont have to print off as much. (If you wanted to get even more posh this could be integrated into WHM, so a manual is created automagically when a reseller is created, and so the user has a link in their WHM)

 

[Brio]

Would be nice to have an accessible version that didn't rely on flash and javascript.

 

[casey]

Will these docs be translatable? Some of us can't use the English docs...

 

[casey]

This thread is sticky, isn't it? :p

 

[we_are_borg]

Why did the staff choose for Flash it's the most irritating to use.
if you whant a smart sollution to a manual use WikiWiki then every one can contribute to the manual.

 

[frankiejr]

Flash looks nice, but I personally HATE it for menus. Let me explain.

I use Firefox. My middle mouse button is set to open links in a new tab. I use this feature more often than anything in the browser because I hate the back button and don't like to use my place. I know there are many others that have similar web browsing habits (even a lot of IE users use the "open link in a new window" feature regularly).

Usability wise, Flash flat out stinks. Sure, they've come a long, long way since their earlier days, but they still have one heck of a long way to go. In my opinion a context menu for a right-click/hold-click is one of the most important enhancements that's gone undeveloped in Flash.

I wouldn't expect cPanel to change a menu that's taken time to license & develop ($999 Full/$499 Upgrade for Robohelp, I believe), but IMHO, using this system is a serious no-no as far as usability is concerned (especially for documentation).

But don't get me wrong...it looks nice and is leaps and bounds ahead of the past cPanel docs. So a huge Thanks goes out to cPanel for making an outstanding effort to improve in an area in which they were seriously lacking!

.frankiejr

 

[ladysham]

Printable manual

Some of our users have mentioned they would like a PDF version, or at least a version that flowed nicely to enable printing of the whole manual.

Possibly not sure if this is possible, but a reseller version of the WHM manual so they dont have to print off as much. (If you wanted to get even more posh this could be integrated into WHM, so a manual is created automagically when a reseller is created, and so the user has a link in their WHM)

Is a printable version available??????? PLEASE???? I really don't need one for cPanel, but definitely need one for WHM.

 

[isputra]

Is a printable version available??????? PLEASE???? I really don't need one for cPanel, but definitely need one for WHM.

Count me in :D