Simon Wakeman - marketing, public relations and digital communications

Simon’s core strengths were around being insight led, marketing and experience planning, and successful delivery. Simon led the ‘paperless credit card agreement’ strategy and agreed a solution which met the needs of all the stakeholders…the 1st solution of it’s kind at the time in the UK market and widely adopted by the industry since. Mike Beddington, Egg

…I was very impressed with the forward thinking and attention to detail Simon displayed…he thinks projects through carefully but quickly and has a good rapport with a wide range of people, from senior politicians and officers through to colleagues and his own staff. Malcolm Triggs, Go4 Marketing and Public Relations

Textpattern end user manual

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I’ve been working with Textpattern for some time, using it both on my sites and clients’ sites.

I kept getting asked again and again for some simple information to help clients use the Textpattern CMS to edit and update their content.

So to help with this I created a basic end user manual. It was written for a non-techie person to read - all it’s meant to do is tell them how to do the basics of content management using Textpattern.

Thanks to Bob Janes for his work improving the layout and design of the manual.

It was written and screenshots taken for Textpattern RC1.

I am no longer updating my Textpattern documentation. I’ve moved my site over to Wordpress so no longer use Textpattern regularly. However the old versions will remain here for download should anyone find them useful.
The manual is completely free to download.

Current version:
Textpattern end-user manual v1.2 - MS Word - 372Kb
Textpattern end-user manual v1.2 - Adobe PDF - 472Kb

Older versions:
Textpattern end-user manual v1.1 - MS Word - 992Kb
Textpattern end-user manual v1.1 - Adobe PDF - 115Kb

This manual is released under the GNU Free Documentation License.


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Simon Wakeman

I've been on the web since 2001 and have been blogging about marketing and public relations since January 2006.

I'm currently Head of Marketing at Medway Council as well as a freelance marketing and PR consultant.

The content and opinions expressed on this website are not endorsed by nor reflect the views of any company or organisation I work with.

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