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Purposing new page within the website for compiling codeblocks.org

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Pecan:

--- Quote from: cprgmswr2 on April 28, 2006, 02:37:55 pm ---I found the information on wiki after searching around for a while, the problem is that I and I am sure others have done this have gone

    Wiki -> installation\Build instructions -> Building from source

And then the liniks on that page are just links to other areas on the page and none of the information is on compiling from source.

And you have seperate links for compiling wxWidgets from compiling codeblocks itself... and compiling wxWigdets is needed before you can compile codeblocks itself

Correct me if I am wrong, but the ability to re-compile codeblocks from source is the next important thing to that of downloading, installing and help on codeblocks.

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I agree whole heartedly that attempting to find information on compiling CodeBlocks is getting harder and harder to find.

Each time I've tried to obtain a url to post an answer, I end up at a dead wiki link.
If a newbie did the same, I think s/he is being logical to surmise that there are yet no instructions on compiling.

Some of us spent hours (yes hours) working on that wiki, only to find our work is in dead link hell. Why did the info have to be "dead-linked" just to update the wiki. Wouldn't it have been more couteous to add a new link?

sorry for the rant
pecan

cprgmswr2:
I have done some researching for school into the development of websites... and I know how websites should be designed. If someone can provide me with the nessary tools, I will redesign codeblocks.org so that everyone can find the information alot better on this site.

I am not tring to be rude here but I am just tring to help out and this is what I think:

Even if the information is avaible on wiki, it is still not easily known to navigate to wiki to find information on recompile the source to codeblocks. I am saying that it would be better if there was a link under:

  Development snapshots are also available, one each night (try them, they 're pretty stable and unbelievably feature-rich!).

This link would direct a user to the developer page or mabye even wiki and then on wiki have a direct link to compiling codeblocks.

Note: I relize there is a link to a list of articles on compiling codeblocks; however, the very first link is very misleading since it appears incomplete. This gives the user the impression that the information on how to compile codeblocks doesn't exist yet.

Most users don't like to sit and learn an entire site before they can find the information they would like to know. You can have a very nicely organized site and a lot of work put into it, but it only takes one or two confusing elements to through off the user and frustrate them.

It would even be helpful to put a direct link on the home page of the wiki site directly to the page with information on how to compile codeblocks and that information should be all contained witin one page

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