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How to Write Perfect Technical Article or Document Titles and Subtitles

By Ugur Akinci | August 22, 2011

Titles are sometimes also called “headings”, “headlines” or even “headers” (mostly by technical writers coming from a journalism background). Subtitles are sometimes also referred to as “subheadings” or “subheaders.” But a title is used only once in an article or a document: in the very beginning. That’s why an article, a book, or a document…

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Network Documentation: “What’s a HUB, a SWITCH, and a ROUTER?”

By Ugur Akinci | August 12, 2011

Network terminology comes up in all kinds of hi-tech documentation, whether you’re documenting a network or not since there are a lot of software-hardware systems out there that are installed as one network or another. So it would really help you if you knew the basics of network technology and the terms and concepts that…

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How to Draw a Circuit Resistor with Adobe Illustrator

By Ugur Akinci | August 11, 2011

Resistors are common components of many electrical circuit diagrams. Here is how you can draw a good-looking resistor in Adobe Illustrator: (1) Draw a straight line with the Pen tool and select it. (2) Select Effect > Distort & Transform > Zig Zag from the main menu to display the Zig Zag dialog box: (3)…

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How to Wrap Text Around an Image in an Adobe FrameMaker Document

By Ugur Akinci | August 5, 2011

Adobe FrameMaker is no InDesign: it does not have a  lot of text-wrap options. But you can still do it with the following two conditions: 1)      Wrapping only in the RIGHT or LEFT side of the text frame. 2)      Wrapping around a SQUARE or RECTANGLE outline. If you have any other kind of text-wrapping in…

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