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Write for Niche Markets to Earn More

By Ugur Akinci | September 16, 2009

© 2009-2010 Ugur Akinci We live in a world of specialization and specialists always earn more. There are neighborhood car mechanics who fix any old car and those who repair only Jaguars, BMWs and Porches. Guess who charges more? Your family doctor may know a lot about a number of different diseases. There’s also your…

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Document Menu of Adobe "Writer" (Professional)

By Ugur Akinci | September 11, 2009

I know —  the good and hard-working folks over at Adobe do not like me refer to Adobe Professional as “Writer” but there are 2 good reasons why I do so: 1) “Writer” is a term well-established within the technical writing community. Every tech writer I know refers to Adobe Professional as “Adobe Writer.”  I’m…

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How to Write a Software Installation Guide

By Ugur Akinci | September 9, 2009

© 2009-2010 Ugur Akinci An installation guide is written to describe the installation of either a mechanical/electronics system (like a child’s swing or a hi-fi set) or a software product. Here we will focus mainly on the latter. A software installation guide overlaps with System Administration Guide since it covers similar configuration tasks. That’s the…

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A Basic "RoboHelp 8 for Word" Tutorial

By Ugur Akinci | September 2, 2009

© 2010 Ugur Akinci A. Introduction This introductory Adobe RoboHelp tutorial shows the basic steps required to create a RoboHelp 8 for Word project. (Robohelp comes in two basic flavors: Robohelp for Word, and plain Robohelp HTML). In this tutorial, we will use RoboHelp 8 for Word and generate a  Help file in Winhelp 2000…

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