Mark Morgan started a Conversant Newbies site the other day which he summarizes as, “A place to put really cool stuff we come up with.”
One of the sort of double-edged swords with Conversant is its incredible flexibility. On the one hand this is astounding because to an extent not possible in any other tools I’ve used, I can build a web solution tailored to how I work and how I want to present information, while Mark or others can do things entirely differently.
On the other hand regardless of how easy it is to use, at some point once you get past a certain level of features, things can get pretty confusing (on the flip side of that, though, given its flexibility it is far easier to keep all of the options of Conversant in my head than it was remember how to configure four or five CGI scripts to do similar functions).
One of the things I’ve been working on, for example, is writing documentation for reguler site visitors who are used to using things like the Ultimate Bulletin Board. In my opinion, writing good software documentation is the most difficult writing task, period.