#30787
Web Indexing: Extending the Functionality of HTML Indexer
HTML Indexer is a commercial stand-alone indexing tool that is designed solely for the indexing of web sites. This article shows how to extend the functionality of HTML Indexer by including special codes in the entries, then post-processing the generated HTML to obtain final HTML.
Unwalla, Mike. TechScribe (2006). Articles>Web Design>Indexing>Software
#31151
Mit dieser Technik steht Ihnen eine einfache Methode zur Verfügung, Webseiten oder einzelne Bereiche eines Webs downzuloaden und als PDF zu speichern.
TECOM (2003). (German) Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#27592
Web-Based Alternatives to PowerPoint
Presentation software has been stuck in neutral forever. Web applications, however, are firing on all cylinders. Some say Word and Excel are about to be Web 2.0 roadkill. Not me. The browser can’t yet substitute for those applications. But for PowerPoint? Any day now.
Udell, Jon. InfoWorld (2006). Articles>Presentations>Software>Web Design
#18797
WebWorks Publisher 6 Tips and Tricks 
A presentation covering some techniques for using WebWork Publisher to produce online versions of FrameMaker documentation.
Knopf, David A. Knopf Online (2001). Presentations>Software>Web Design>Adobe FrameMaker
#18791
This is a page with links to various resources for WebWorks Publisher users. WebWorks Publisher is a 'best of breed' solution for single source publishing with Adobe FrameMaker. Using WebWorks Publisher, you can convert FrameMaker documents to a wide variety of online formats, including Web formats (HTML, HTML + CSS, XML, XML + CSS, XML + XSL), as well as online Help formats (WinHelp, HTML Help, JavaHelp, and WebWorks Help).
Knopf Online. Resources>Software>Web Design>Adobe FrameMaker
#15224
WebWorks Publisher: Can It Convert You?
Discusses Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher, a software package that allows single-sourcing from Adobe FrameMaker to online documents. For a more advanced discussion of WebWorks, see Robert R. Desprez's article 'WebWorks Publisher: Jumping into the Details,' also in the September/October 2001 issue of Intercom.
Beren, Wendy G. Intercom (2001). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
#26004
Mixing vector and photo is one of the hottest trends in the illustration industry today. We've seen this effect used in national ad campaigns from Anheuser-Busch to Hawaiian Tropic. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to create this effect in Illustrator. Before you begin, keep in mind that you can download the Illustrator source fi le used in this column.
Kloskowski, Matt. Layers Magazine (2005). Design>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
#19650
Why Technical Writers Should Love Microsoft's Inductive User Interface 
In early 2001, Microsoft issued a technical article describing their Inductive User Interface guidelines. The guidelines should be of keen interest to all technical writers involved with documenting software applications. After a summary of the guidelines, I'll explain why.
Carlson, Janice L. Carlson Online Design (2001). Design>User Interface>Software>Technical Writing
#12979
WidemanOne Adobe FrameMaker Topics
For all that the most central concept in FrameMaker is the Frame, the existing documentation is thoroughly foggy regarding the precise nature of the Frame types and the relationships amongst them. Here is a first pass at rectifying that shortcoming.
Wideman, Graham. WidemanOne (2001). Resources>Software>Document Design>Adobe FrameMaker
#20018
Will Macromedia's Flash Plans Cripple the Web?
Macromedia's Flash-everywhere approach brings new innovations to Web design but carries hidden potential liabilities that could negate its benefits.
Becker, David. ZDNet (1997). Articles>Web Design>Software>Flash
#25616
Wireframe Annotations in Visio
Few information architects tap the full power of Visio. For the IA, Visio is a means to an end—a mechanism for capturing some ideas on paper before they are transformed into graphics, HTML, and code.
Brown, Dan. Boxes and Arrows (2004). Articles>Information Design>Software>Visio
#28061
Word Spacing Keyboard Shortcut
Ever been copyfitting and wished there was a quick way to kern word spacing but leave letterspacing alone? There is.
Cole, Tim. Adobe Evangelists (2006). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#26326
It's ironic that the process of exporting a document from Word to HTML would have the effect of breaking the web page in Internet Explorer only. It's also pretty darned annoying.
alt tags (2005). Articles>Web Design>Software>Microsoft Word
#14417
Word-to-RoboHelp Conversion Tips and Tricks
Whether you’re converting an existing Microsoft Word document to a WinHelp format using RoboHelp, or to an HTML-based Help format using RoboHelp HTML, RoboHelp Office 9 lets you add a Word document to your Help project with a single mouse click. But don’t do it, at least not until you’ve reviewed, tweaked, and massaged the document to make the most of the new medium for your documentation and to avoid problems that commonly surface following conversion Here are some tips for an (almost) error-free conversion.
Carlson, Janice L. WilliamRice.com (2001). (Chinese) Design>Documentation>Software>Adobe RoboHelp
#25495
Working with Colour in InDesign CS
Explains the use of the Colour Palette and Swatches palette and how they relate to each other. It also briefly covers the Gradient Palette. Informative links explaining the difference between RGB, CMYK, hues, tints, etc. are also provided.
Bruno, Elisabetta. About.com. Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe InDesign
#22355
Working With Graphics in Adobe InDesign CS
In this topic, you will place graphics on the page and then move, resize and crop them.
#18964
Working XML: Use Eclipse to build a user interface for XM
Anyone familiar with XM -- the low-cost, open-source content management solution based on XSLT -- knows that for all its good points, it still lacks a decent user interface. In this article, columnist Benoï¿t Marchal uses the Eclipse platform's open universal framework to build a user interface for XM.
Marchal, Benoit. IBM (2002). Design>User Interface>Software>XML
#19385
XML in Motion: The Scalable Vector Graphic
Introduces scalable vector graphic (SVG) format, a new, XML-based graphics format for the Web.
Altom, Timothy H. Intercom (2003). Design>Graphic Design>Software>XML
#30105
New office document standards like the OpenDocument Format(ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML), however, are making office document integration in business processes a reality. A key benefit of ODF and OOXML for developers is the reuse of existing standards.
Van Cappellen, Marc. Dr. Dobb's (2007). Design>Information Design>Software>XML
#21852
Keep calm for presentations by taking a little PDF.
Thompson, Audrey. Adobe Magazine (1999). Presentations>Information Design>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#32265
Exploiting Web Tools to Make HTML Documents Accessible
More accessible documents through authoring tool supports. Exploit mainstream tools for easier information retrieval and document manipulation.
Treviranus, Jutta and Jan Richards . University of Toronto (2004). Presentations>Web Design>Accessibility>Software
#32641
Photoshop. Fireworks. If you’re a serious web designer (and not using the GIMP) you’re going to be using one or the other. But which is best?
Smith, Nathan. Digital Web Magazine (2008). Articles>Graphic Design>Software>Adobe Photoshop
#32652
Introduction to Django: Helping Perfectionists With Deadlines
Django is an open-source Web framework, written in Python, that allows you to easily and rapidly develop interactive, data-centric web applications. It came into being when two Web developers—Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison—in Kansas, after moving their newspaper’s website from PHP to Python, found themselves repeatedly solving similar problems. They decided to extract the common functionality and released the resulting framework in 2005.
Ellis, Dan. Digital Web Magazine (2008). Articles>Web Design>Software>Open Source
#32874
How to Make Accessible Web Content Using Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver allows developers to be prompted when inserting certain web elements that may need accessibility attributes added to them. Unfortunately, these options are disabled in the preferences by default.ImportantBy default, the accessibility options are disabled in Dreamweaver MX. Once selected, Dreamweaver will display a prompt for accessibility features when each of the identified elements are inserted into a document.
WebAIM (2007). Articles>Web Design>Software>Dreamweaver
#32875
How to Make Accessible Web Content Using FrontPage
When designing with FrontPage, some basic accessibility features must be added manually. Despite some of these shortcomings, it is definitely possible to create accessible web pages in FrontPage, often without leaving the WYSIWYG environment.
WebAIM (2007). Articles>Web Design>Software>FrontPage
