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Post #1 Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:37 pm 
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I've written a short new player guide, hope anybody finds it useful enough to recommend.

Feedback appreciated.

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Post #2 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:26 am 
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I like it because it's clean and it's not much text/info. I think it's important not to overburden new ones with the whole universe of Go information ^^

But I'd highly recommend to make the font taller and use one without serifs. And I would maybe add http://tsumego.tasuki.org/ as a further resource for Tsumegos.


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Post #3 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 12:36 am 
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Thanks - those were specifically my design goals.

This displays clearly and cleanly with a sans typeface under firefox. I've written it in HTML 1. I'm afraid I'm a bit of a dinosaur, having learned HTML back in the early days and not kept up with the latest. I know the <FONT> tag is deprecated in favor of CSS, but I didn't realize some browsers no longer support it.

If someone would help me with the CSS I'd greatly appreciate it.

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Post #4 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:05 am 
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It's fixed now, somehow :o Taller font and sans-serif. Works beautifully =D

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Post #5 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 1:08 am 
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I changed the typeface to verdana and added the link you suggested. It should still use CSS but if this works... :-)

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Post #6 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 2:14 am 
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Thanks - done!

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Post #7 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:16 am 
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Very nicely done.

You might want to mention Guo Juan's Audio Go Lessons Step By Step Course.

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Post #8 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 8:37 am 
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Thanks for that - will do!!

I'd also appreciate any suggestions on how to get the word out this guide exists. I've posted also to GoDiscussions (which has since disabled my account due to a software bug - why I ask people to reply here), rec.games.go, my facebook page and several Go-related groups on facebook, and talked to the admins at KGS (who seem lukewarm to the idea for reasons I can't guess at).

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Post #9 Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 9:52 am 
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Duckslammer wrote:
I've written a short new player guide, hope anybody finds it useful enough to recommend.

Feedback appreciated.

David Drexler
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saw your post on the AGA Chapter's mailing list

we have a brief KGS tutorial posted on the AGA site too (seems a few of our high dan online tournament players have a little trouble figuring out how to use KGS)... http://www.usgo.org/tournaments/KGSTutorial/


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Post #10 Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:21 am 
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Thanks! If you don't mind I'll clone this, using the beginners' room instead of the tournament room for the examples.

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Post #11 Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:09 am 
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Sorry I was looking at the beginner's study guide pdf (which is also very good) from the link on the page.

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Post #12 Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:33 am 
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Unclear what this is in reference to. None of the resources discussed in this thread have a section 13.1 and any urls to kgs are already specified as www.gokgs.com so far as I can see The 'www' part is almost never necessary however.

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