Hi,

DmitOE, (Je crois Dmitre?) Je suis content de vous connaitre, tu et OE.

My French is not good enough to understand the details of the audio of your tutes. I tried but was frustrated - because there is quite a lot of idiom and so on, but it would take someone more fluent no time to record an audio track in English to go with it - and an editor can easily substitute one audio track for another, if you would post the video on say Google Drive for direct download with a note somewhere.

Brandon's videos (11 of them totaling about 90 min) are quite good. I hope he adds a followup to just discuss what else he has learned without necessarily starting over.

My thoughts as an old super-expert computer guy: OE is having a slow time catching on for specific reasons. The most important of which is the migration of the masses to WP. OE will have an appeal at the top of the list for Creatives and for Designers, who overlap. The designers would be interested in the advantages of a static layout site that doesn't offer as many opportunities to hackers, for example. Creatives will prefer their own HTML5 canvas and workflow, with overhead elements taken care of. Everyone will appreciate the lower overhead of a static site (or client-side js) which means they will comport with the EULAS of basic shared servers.

OE is also being arrested unfairly by general misconceptions about its competitive nature, versus other site-builders and editors. Some clarity on this is difficult because it involves a great deal of expertise and experience with that topic - and the experts have largely switched over to blogging platforms. The last great success story that was very well supported by experts was Kompozer, which I still recommend for basic speed of learning and execution of most sites that are still based on XHTML. Especially over its intended replacement by the same coder, Blue Griffon (which costs $90 for far less functionality than OE.)

I suggest that market share is the most critical target. Microsoft recently has had a rethink in this area. Their premium products have long and still often have very long trial periods, up to 90 days. This is a fair trial. Autocad offers 3 years use of programs under a commercial restrictive license that has teeth with the barrier between student and professional - but there are no differences in the software itself.

Myself, I have transitioned from tech to fiction to philosophy and so I am even poorer than a migrant worker. My website, once I get the hang of this, will be 49Miracles.com. It is currently UUNIS.net.

Merci

WP integration might be a brilliant coup.

Yes, the wiki is very nicely written. Just needs to be continued. Some attention needs to be paid to use of keywords for related concepts that may not translate exactly. I know OE has features related to Image Mapping but that I can't find with "image map," nor "image hot spots," for example. I am a big believer in very effective search and use of keyword "breadcrumbing" as a distinct technique. Like, "related concepts."

I also notice a problem with the divided effort between the Forum versus the Wiki. The Wiki is designed to be a superior solution (depending on execution) because of the use of a database to manage keywords. This is not always used effectively, even when understood. (You add or update a keyword and it becomes global. You associate things via the keyword on special pages....) Wikis can manage forum conversations effectively, and mediawiki is the obvious leader at combining these functions.

The forum has many tiny tips, even your comments by way of conversing. But it is not really organized, or possible to organize for comprehensive help. By the way, this has been a specialty of mine since 1986. One thing possible is to headline an index. An index is basically a manual Wiki database. You can add summaries of each actual solution and a unique search function, or hack the site's search results to show the index prominently.

Merci.

Wiki and forum are complementary; usually one would start by reading the basics in the Wiki, try to find the subject, then search in the forum to bring up posts containing certain words. The main problem of the English version of the forum is that there's still too few users and useful posts; more the forum gets popular, easier it becomes to find answers.