How to Measure the Value of Your Technical Communication Content
In the technical communication field, we know the value of our work. We know that the content we develop impacts real people on a daily basis. It’s a little more difficult to prove the value of technical communication to people outside of our wonderful niche. There are 4 reasons why it’s important to measure the effectiveness of your…
Read MoreHow to Insert Text and Images to a FrameMaker Side Bar
Imagine you are using Adobe FrameMaker and you’d like to insert a Note, Warning, or Caution text or icon into your Side Head (or Side Bar). It’s easy when you know how to do it, as explained in this video. Just make sure to create the necessary paragraph styles (or tags) for this task. MORE…
Read MoreWhat’s a Font, Font Family, Typeface, Font-Face?
Sound knowledge of fonts is a must for any self-publishing writer. In about fifteen or twenty years that may not be as crucial as it is today if and when the communication field makes a wholesale shift to “structured authoring” in which the writers may lose control over how their “content” will be formatted and…
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