[eluser]elvix[/eluser]
My two cents -- I subscribe to what's likely the main RSS feed and see tons of random n00b questions float by. For the most part, it's easy to let them pass by and pick off the ones you want to help with.
I agree it's sometimes really hard to even know what words to use to frame your question. But the best solution is to provide lots of alternate methods to browse and search for answers. Right now, you have the user guide, the forums, the wiki, and Google -- the latter two of which are pretty useless if you're still struggling to describe your problem, which leaves you only the user guide before you give up and hit the forum.
What I'd really like to see is set of articles, recipes and best practices that could draw some attention away from the forums. Wordpress has done this (to the extreme) with their Codex. The wiki has some great stuff in it, but honestly, it's really difficult to get around (search is awful). It needs a full rewrite, imho.
A simple page with basic and even advanced articles would provide a really welcome resource, I think. "Removing index.php from your URLs" would be my vote for article #1
, but I'd also like to see articles on best practices for managing your code base, reorganizing file structures (i.e., moving app/ and system/ from the web-accessible dir), etc.
There's a lot of really smart work that's buried in the forums. Pulling it out into a more digestible format would be a great help to everyone.
