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I am exploring CodeIgniter from a background in CakePHP.  I must say I find it utterly ridiculous that CI’s documentation does not even have simple Prev/Next buttons so I can read and learn in a linear fashion.  I am forced to continually pop open the massive Table of Contents fly-down merely to flip a page! 

For instance:
http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/overview/getting_started.html

If this framework wants to be competitive, the makers need to learn usability testing 101.

Please let me know when this oversight is fixed.

They have added a previous topic and a next topic link to the footer, thank goodness.

Great, good turnaround.  Now all they need to do is render them as prominent buttons or at least arrows, so they don’t look like generic footer boilerplate (copyright line, etc).  It actually took me a minute to find these links.  That’s a bad sign, given that I scrolled to the bottom specifically looking for them.

This problem actually kept me away from CodeIgniter for years. Now please make the links something other than microscopic font. Usability, people!

I believe I’ve found another problem in the docs—a missing } in the demonstration code that causes the PHP to fail. Hopefully that will be fixed as well.