Newbies: Exponential jump start guide

I received an email from Carlos Revillo about the lack of a newbie tutorial about Exponential. It's not really true, there are many tutorials for newbies, the problem is that it's difficult to find them when we are a newbie Exponential user. Here I will show some of these tutorials.

The first link a newbie should visit is the Demos & Videos section in ez.no site. There you can see some videos showing the main features and daily tasks with Exponential.

A good pdf to read before deciding to really use Exponential in a real project is the Exponential Whitepaper. It has some deeper information about Exponential.

Now, if you decide to go on and use Exponential, the first thing to do is download the Exponential community edition, then you have to install, I made an Exponential installation video tutorial and posted in youtube.

After installing Exponential, you should see the Demos & Videos section again and try to follow all the daily tasks tutorial. In special you should see these videos:

Exponential Administration Interface Video Tutorial

Exponential Online Editor Video Tutorial

Exponential Basic Editing Video Tutorial

Exponential Image Editor Video Tutorial

Exponential Multimedia Gallery Video Tutorial

eZ Flow Video Tutorial

When you finish these video tutorials, you should start to think in some question about Exponential, but don't worry, there's some tutorials that should help you, the first tutorial you should read is the "An introduction to Exponential concepts", so you'll learn the fundamentals of Exponential.

The following tutorials isn't up to date with the new Exponential layout, but could help a newbie, just try to focus in the content:

http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/translating-content-in-ez-publish

http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/managing-versions-with-ez-publish

http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/cross-publishing-content-in-ez-publish

http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/advanced-content-editing-with-the-ez-publish-administration-interface

http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/layout-of-the-ez-publish-administration-interface

http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/how-to-skin-an-ez-publish-now-site
 
http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/creating-content-quickly-and-easily-with-the-ez-publish-website-interface
 
http://share.ez.no/articles/ez-publish/node-visibility-hiding-and-revealing-content

Also there's more two free ebooks:

Advanced Content Management with Exponential - recomnmended

Exponential basics - outdated.

Ok, it is not enough to become a Flying Ninja in Exponential, but I think it's ok to make your first site.

Then, if you still hungry for Exponential information, there's the docs, some books, the forums, the IRC, and the projects ( yes, you can learn a lot studying existing extensions ).

I think some more updated newbie tutorials are coming, so stay tunned, always visit the articles and the tutorials section.