@ shillo

I'm not wishing to have or start a debate, just stating a fact. People with no knowledge or expertise either need, to work with elgg, to gather some (as I have had to) or will struggle until they have.

http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/What_is_Elgg

To run Elgg, you need to have your own web server and a certain amount of technical knowledge - or access to someone who does, like a system administrator.

Dear phil, I too didn't have any such intention.

Reworded, it looks fine , especially the addition "to work with elgg, to gather some (as I have had to) or will struggle until they have". It describes the whole process -- beginning as a beginner and go and go on, picking a piece of code-hack from here, and helping out a less-informed person there ... 

Besides, I am fully aware that some Elggers like yourself spend hours here.

@ Cash

Thanks. Carlos or Dhrup has told me that. I feel it will be better if that part of the engine/settings.php file comes with a comment like "not implemented" or something to the effect, so that reckless people like me won't head into the 2-db temptation. LOL!

Cheers!

hi.. good topic ... nice group.... please wake-up   :)

I sure that the documantation has improved greatly. I wish that the highly skilled elgg user, the ones that have no need for documentation will put some off their ime and effort into building a goodone.

Most comments above still aplly today .. almost two years after !!

Let's improve our community by rewriting and re-organizing the very important elgg guide  

Hello, I am new to elgg. I just discovered about it and love it. It is a great tool. I have successfully installed it on localhost. I need help with customizing the front page, which is the page a user logs in or registers. I simply need a manual on how to change/add things around, before log in and after log in. Can anyone point me to the right direction? Thank you.