I'm just throwing this out there for addon developers to think about, if they will.

In the last few days I've installed some add-ons to help with my store. One of them I managed to get up and running by pestering the developer with questions and by being sort of lucky.

One of the things I did in the past was to work as a documentation specialist and curriculum developer for technical stuff--specifically software. I have a lot of respect for software developers and the work they do. They have skill sets and knowledge sets that I simply don't possess, and for the most part they do their job very well.

Problem is, most of us (read that as the end-users of the products) don't have that same skill set and knowledge set. My experience with software developers has been that they focus on getting the program to do what it needs to do, and then walk away. That's fine when a software program has an easy-to-use and intuitive interface. But when that software (as most of these mods do) requires poking around in the guts of the associated database, or modifying lines in files by doing some hand coding, it just doesn't work!

As I stated in another post, the directions, "Turn right at the red light and go 1/2 mile, then left and you're there," seem to be very clear and concise. But not all of us know where that red light is located... or even if we are approaching it from north, south, east or west.

If you have written a mod and it requires that I go into a file and modify a line of code in some way, is it too much to ask you to specify exactly what file that is, and the path to get to it? Lately I've tried to use a couple of mods and although I am sure they work beautifully, how to make them work is beyond me. The documentation is fragmentary and incomplete at best.

Please, if you are writing a mod or add-on, write some documentation that not only tells me exactly what the new line in the file needs to be, but exactly what file it should go in and where that file is located. We don't all have your level of knowledge, and although it may be intuitively obvious to you, it probably isn't to many of us.

Thanks!