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A Sneak Peak of skmFAQs.NET

In an earlier blog entry I asked for suggestions on making a FAQ Web application.  Those suggestions, along with my own ideas, is nearing release of an open-source product, which I have named skmFAQs.NET.  skmFAQs.NET is designed to make it easy for a group of individuals to create a FAQ-based Web site.  In a way it's a Wiki with limited access - only explicitly specified users can alter the FAQ contents, and there are varying levels of permissions, from full-blown administrators to folks whose FAQs must be approved by a moderator before they'll appear on the site.  (For more on skmFAQs, see this FAQ: What is skmFAQs.NET?)

Anywho, I'm hoping to finally get a beta version out the door by the end of this week.  In the mean time, I have crated the “official” skmFAQs.NET site, aptly named, http://skmFAQs.NET.  If you have a moment, why not take a gander and let me know if you find any typos, oddities, or have any suggestions on making the site more usable.  And please take pity on me, I am by no means a graphical kind of person; the site is all text and done up in a yellow theme.

Once I release a beta of skmFAQs.NET, I'll be very interested in having folks give it a whirl, letting me know what issues they encountered in setting it up, what bugs they find, feature suggestions, etc.  If you'd like to be a beta tester, watch this blog as I'll post an entry once the beta is available for download.  Thanks!

posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2004 3:37 PM

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# re: A Sneak Peak of skmFAQs.NET 11/30/2004 3:57 PM Bryant Likes

Very cool! I've been wanting to build a Wiki/FAQ combo site for a long time (to replace sqlxml.org) but never got around to it. This looks like a good start. Are you going to post the source code and let people fork off versions like the skmMenu?

# re: A Sneak Peak of skmFAQs.NET 11/30/2004 4:02 PM Scott Mitchell

Bryant, the complete source code (C#) will be released, just like with skmMenu. There will also be an accompanying article on MSDN Online, just like with skmMenu.

# re: A Sneak Peak of skmFAQs.NET 11/30/2004 5:44 PM bestcomy

wow,good work!

# re: A Sneak Peak of skmFAQs.NET 12/1/2004 4:16 AM bestcomy

I've introduced skmFAQs.NET to chinese dotnet developer.
http://www.cnblogs.com/bestcomy/archive/2004/12/01/71679.html

# re: A Sneak Peak of skmFAQs.NET 12/1/2004 4:12 PM Bryant Likes

Great! Does the editor speak Wiki or just HTML?

# re: A Sneak Peak of skmFAQs.NET 12/1/2004 6:20 PM Scott Mitchell

Bryant, the editor just speaks HMTL - it uses FreeTextBox so it provides a rich editor experience for both IE and Mozilla... You can check out FreeTextBox at http://freetextbox.com

# re: A Sneak Peak of skmFAQs.NET 12/1/2004 8:20 PM Dave Burke

Sounds like yet another excellent SKM product! I'll definitely be staying posted.

# skmFAQs.NET Beta 1 Available for Download 12/2/2004 11:01 AM Scott on Writing

# re: A Sneak Peak of skmFAQs.NET 1/27/2005 6:21 AM Rob Locher

You misspelled "peruse".

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