I live in the UK, and have just bought an Arduino (from Radio Spares). It all works, and I get the flashing LED (blink) as suggested I should. I now want to do more; I used to fiddle with electronics a long time ago.
I find this site a bit messy, and these have passed through into the reference link in the IDE. I don't want to moan about it, I want to help fix it. I have found a few posts in the Forum on the same thing - I am concerned that this might put off new people.
Is there an easy way to get involved to help tidy up the web site? It might be good if there was a section / board devoted to doing this. Are there specific skills anyone needs so they can get involved?
@Joe90:
Which website are you referring to?
What do you find messy?
Who do you think might be put-off?
It might be good if there was a section / board devoted to doing this
There are - they're called "Bugs & suggestions", and there's one for hardware, and one for software.
Maybe if you'd spent a little longer looking around, you'd've found them.
Radio Spares? Haven't heard them called that in a very long time.
I followed the instructions at the arduino_cc site and worked out what I need. I installed it. I ran the IDE and looked at the help. If not connected to the internet, a lot of links in there don't work as they refer back to the arduino_cc site, including the images. That is a bit messy.
Back online, and the arduino_cc site links to the Playground. There seems to be lots of links to all sorts of info - I guess I got overwhelmed by the amount - but I was looking for a simple 'what next'. I was not sure if I should look at the first site or the Playground.
The forum - software - bugs... seems to cover too much. I read some comments about the website (font size is a css thing, not a browser setting) but they are hard to find in the long and varied list.
If I wanted to add stuff I learn, create or whatever, I started to wonder where to put it. I was disappointed that there is no obvious message about helping out, nor a list of things that need doing. I also looked at the Web/Forum/Email/Spam section, but it did not have a bit for the Web.
In the end I put this comment in the FAQ, as I thought a question about helping was more general than the website. I figured someone would point out where I should have put it, but it still seems confusing (IDE and 3 web sites with common stuff across them). I did try; I assume someone with less patience might give up.