User talk:Max123kl/Tutorial Screenshots EN draft
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For me, the Joomla documentation wiki is a complete nightmare. It is really hard to find anything relevant. Try searching for 'screenshot' and then try googling for 'Joomla screenshot'. So I suggest a link goes into https://docs.joomla.org/JDOC:Joomla_4_Tutorials_Project with a more explicit title: Taking Screenshots (or something similar). And don't add _EN there, that gets added later during translation.
For me, the first title and section text are not quite appropriate. Improve implies you can start with an existing screenshot. I would drop the first section completely and start with Four easy steps to better screenshots. Work in anything useful from the first section later. And why promote a Windows only capture tool when Firefox, Chrome and The WIMP have perfectly good cross-platform tools?
More comments to follow if this one seems useful.
Thank you for your comment
Any constructive comment is welcome. Unfortunately, I can't address you personally because you forgot to sign your post.
about the Joomla Wiki search function
As long as the document is still under development, it should only be known to the reviewers. I believe that premature publishing of an unfinished document is contra-productive. However, I agree with you that a link to the finished article should be placed in a prominent place in the Wiki. Whether the article stays on my user page or is moved to another place in the wiki, I will leave to the administrators. Also the name of the page is not final yet, why not "Taking Screenshots" if it will be found better then.
to the introduction
The basic idea with the first paragraph was to describe in a few short sentences to the reader that an improvement of the screenshots is possible with simple resources. If you find a better wording, don't hesitate to post it here.
I thought I made it more than clear that it is not the tool that matters, but its functions. Everyone should use the tool they have the best experience with. I myself work mainly with Photoshop. But I cannot expect contributing volunteers to have access to such proprietary software. That is why the open source software Gimp was chosen for the illustrations. Also to show that it does not need expensive software to do the image editing mentioned in the article. I therefore consider a reference to the image editor Gimp to be important. We could discuss whether it would be better placed elsewhere.
The reason for using a certain tool lies exclusively in the user's decision. For my way of working, it is extremely helpful to be able to select a certain area of the screen and take a screenshot of it. For me, this prevents me from having to make adjustments later on. If others want to work with other methods, they can do so. I am happy to remove the reference to the "Screen Capture Tool" I use, if it is understood as advertising.
what I am asking for
However, the main headache for me is whether the wording and phrases chosen are in "good English". I do not have much practice in formulating English documents. I am a native German speaker and unsure of my English. Any help in improving is very welcome.