Preface

Contents

1. Why a users guide?
2. Acknowledgments
3. Who should not use Website@School?
4. To conclude

1. Why a users guide?

In many Open Source Software (OSS) projects, documentation often fails to get the attention it deserves. Writing documentation is a low priority task on the to-do list of many software developers. They like to write exciting code, come up with cleverly devised algorithms, or try to break the unbreakable. That's all very fine, but we think it's also a pity. Many good OSS projects could have had a much broader user base if more care had been taken to properly document the project.

There are a lot of good (or bad if you wish) reasons for this lack of project documentation.

2. Acknowledgments

As is mostly the case with projects like ours, this one too leans heavily on the work of others. Website@School cannot be created without the cooperation of many volunteers who translated Website@School program in numerous languages, translators who translated the manual, testers who found a few bugs and many, many other kind people who felt the need to help education in their country.
Thanks are due to our donors: schools, individual donors, institutions and companies that use Website@School and support us financially or otherwise.

3. Who should not use Website@School?

When you crave for 'the latest and the greatest', Website@School might not be a good choice for your organization. If you want 'the best and the safest', please take a peek at the Introduction and/or do the Basic procedures for beginners.

4. To conclude

We hope you will enjoy your Website@School sites for years to come. Apologies for the typo's; they 'are not in the code! The manual writer is visually impaired; unable to tackle them all. Please help.

The Website@School Development Team:
Dirk Schouten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands <dirk (at) websiteatschool (dot) eu>
Peter Fokker, Bussum, the Netherlands <peter (at) berestijn (dot) nl>
Karin Abma, Heemstede, the Netherlands <k.abma (at) quicknet (dot) nl>

September 2013

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Author: Dirk Schouten <dirk (at) websiteatschool (dot) eu>
Last updated: 2014-12-10