Re: new website: second draft

[Federico Bruni]

Tim McNamara wrote:
> As a recent newbie, please allow me to offer a little feedback on this:  
> the crash course is overwhelming.  IMHO the newbie crashes into the 
> bottom the the abrupt and nearly vertical learning curve presented 
> there. I tried it back in the 2.10 days and didn't come back to try 
> again until 2.12.  I wonder how many other newbies we have lost in the 
> same way.  LilyPond's input method looks like computer programming and 
> not music, and most musicians are not computer programmers.  So IMHO we 
> have to find ways to ease them into it and not scare them off.


I'm a recent newbie as well..
I don't think the crash course is overwhelming: it's concise, clear 
and effective.

What is missing there, IMO, is a sort of *short demo/video tutorial*. 
This is the way most of people learn using programs today (or at least 
get acquainted with).

The text crash course says: "Hey man, lilypond is not that easy: no 
GUI, you'll have to learn a new syntax".

The video demo could add: "Don't worry, you can see here that is not 
so difficult".
When I started, I was encouraged by the demos provided by LilypondTool 
website:
http://lilypondtool.organum.hu/demo.html

One more thing: why don't you add *tablature support* in the features?
A couple of years ago I came across Lilypond but I thought it did not 
support tablatures, so I went away because I really need it.
When was the tablature support added?


Cheers,
Federico