Feature of the week: New help pages

As some of you may already have noticed, BibSonomy has a new help page, which provides you with the information needed for exploiting the riches of our platform. Our main focus was the improvement of the design and usablility. The content itself has not changed much though. So next to the new interface description section, where all views are explained to you in details, you will find the new accordion style in large text sections coming in handy, because it offers you a much better overview:

E.g., have a look at our guide for your first steps within BibSonomy.

Another new feature is that you can now use the translation functionality. So if you want to read the help of a certain page in German, just click on the appropriate flag at the bottom of the content area and you will directly see the text in the requested language. You can find the new help pages under the very same address as the existing ones, so all your previous bookmarks will still get you, where you expect them to link to - or at least very close, so finding the content you need won't be much of a problem.

For the technically interested BibSonomy-blog readers: We constructed this help with a JSPWiki in the background and adapted it for our needs.

Feature of the week: interactive tutorials and new help structure

On 12th April 2007 it is BibSonomy's birthday :-) Two years of design, development and the contribution of its users have enhanced the system constantly. In order to show BibSonomy's features and support users starting to work with the system, we have changed our help-websites.

* A general overview of all help functionality we offer can be found at:
--> http://www.bibsonomy.org/help/

* A special highlight are the interactive tutorials making basic and complex actions in BibSonomy easy to understand (thank you Christian!):
--> http://www.bibsonomy.org/help/tutorials

* Users who want to get the most of BibSonomy can find tips, tricks and useful tools at:
--> http://www.bibsonomy.org/help/addons

* Finally, we want to give more background information on what is going on behind and around BibSonomy:
--> http://www.bibsonomy.org/help/about

With the new help features, we hope to improve BibSonomy's usability. We are happy to get your feedback if important information is missing or if you have more ideas ...

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