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Originally Posted by ecbritz
Yes, I agree to all you have said, and I am indeed grateful that this forum exists and thankful for every bit of advice I got. The book-experiment I worked on shows how seriously I took all information given here into account. It's not a bad idea to write up what you've learned and simultaneously experiment with what you've learned, keeping your tongue in your cheek so as to maintain good cheer, don't you think?
Something that would make a good forum topic, to my mind, is how a newbie should plan his learning project. I started going through the Sigil tutorials, a good starting point. But I side-tracked myself too soon. This thread testifies to the premature turn I took, although I also learned a lot.
Let's start a thread dedicated to the sequence of steps a newbie should follow! How he should start the learning process, when best to tackle HTML and CSS, etc. I think this would really be helpful to the clueless, also helpful to the teaching members here. Hope you agree!
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Ecbritz:
You may wish to review some of the various "sticky" posts on the sub-forums, and visit the Workshop and ePUB forums. They are really good places to start. I'm not opposed to your idea, but I think that the Sigil forum is the wrong place to start it. There's also an excellent ePUB floating around somewhere here, which is a beginner's guide to ePUB-making already (I feel dreadful, I forget who wrote it, but it's not bad at all). And there's (I think it's Harry's) guide to beginning mobi-making which is a sticky over at the Mobi forum.
The "tricky" part as I see it is that a lot has to be learned before someone starts their first ePUB which doesn't
directly have to do with ebook-making itself, but, rather, simply learning
fundamental concepts of HTML and CSS.
And I think that's where everyone's trolley kind of leaves the tracks (teaching the fundamentals of HTML/CSS). OH--and don't miss the Wiki, either; excellent articles there on bookmaking, as well.
Hitch