Nice work Trev, nice work !
Some thoughts,
1. Your first block of text, which now defines the page and provides instructions to people like us wanting to contribute to it, really should be more of a welcome page, more directed to the new user. Its probably the first thing they read, research indicates we have about 15 seconds to get and keep their attention.
2. Just under that block is a Related Topics section. Is that there because its a defined in a "Portal Template" or can we move it further down ? Again, its not what a new user is looking for.
3. The next section, "Start Here" on the left, "Resources" on the right, thats great, just the layout we need. I think the we need to cherry pick existing Tutorials (and freshen them up) or write some new ones. The Forms Tutorial sounded good initially but quickly got into advanced topics. New users like to see short tutorials they think they can complete in five minutes or so. Latter on, when hooked, let them seek out the advanced ones.
I think the model is great, a landing zone for new users that gets them past the initial barrier is so needed. I am sure I have my old Delphi 2 books around somewhere, without in any way copying, we could look to that for the scale of the first, say, three tutorials ?
Davo