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Review: Book Reviews in Technical Communication
This page provides links to book reviews related to technical communication. I am looking for book reviews to publish. Please email me if you have a review that you would like to see published here. Note that this is a non-commercial site -- I don't pay for reviews.
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Cascading Style Sheets - An Overview
The commercialisation of the Web led to demands for advanced formatting control. Netscape and Internet Explorer quickly became the dominant Web browsers. Each had different ways of handling advanced formatting. Cascading Style Sheets are an attempt to return to structural markup by separating format from content.
Soltys, Keith. IRTC (2001). Design>Web Design>CSS
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Internet Resources for Technical Communicators
This page contains links to Internet resources for technical writers (or if you prefer, technical communicators).
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IRTC Copyright and Intellectual Property
This page is a list of links to sites that contain information about copyright.
Soltys, Keith. IRTC (2001). Articles>Intellectual Property>Copyright
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IRTC Desktop Publishing and Graphics
This is a list of resources related to desktop publishing and graphics. I'm including things like icons and wallpaper in the graphics category.
Soltys, Keith. IRTC (2001). Design>Document Design>Graphic Design
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This page provides links to files that people have provided to me to host for downloading. I am looking for files to add to this section, for example, collections of useful macros, templates, or useful utilities. Please email me if you have something you would like to see published here.
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This is a list of resources related to language, including online reference tools like dictionaries and style guides.
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This page is for resources related to Web design and publishing, and for more advanced topics, such as, CGI, Perl, Javascript, and Java. Links related specifically to the HTML language used to produce WWW documents and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are on the HTML page.
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At MYOB® (Mind Your Own Business) Australia, we have just finished our first single-sourcing project using mif2go to convert FrameMaker source files to HTML Help *.chm files. These files are also the source of our printed user guide and the hyperlinked PDF of the user guide placed on the distribution CD. There was considerable once-off pain setting up conversion templates (including CSS files) and conversion options but our next project will be much faster. The converted files do not require any hand tweaking -- we just hand over to the release people to put the *.chm file on the installer CD. Our testing and support people are rapt, and consider the new help far better than the old help. It has a navigation pane with Contents, Index, Search, and Favorites tabs, a toolbar with Hide [navigation pane], Prev, Next, Back, Forward, Print, Options, and Welcome (custom Home) buttons. An outsider would have no inkling that the help was converted from FrameMaker source files as the appearance is completely different from the printed book and hyperlinked PDF. You, too, can single-source successfully provided you plan beforehand and your team understands the process.
Finger, Hedley. IRTC (2001). Design>Content Management>Single Sourcing
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Multiple-File Search and Replace Utilities in Windows
This is a review of some multiple-file search and replace utilities for the Windows operating system. One limitation in Windows is the lack of a good search and replace utility. I've often needed to do a search or search and replace across multiple files. While Windows does have a decent Find utility, it doesn't search and replace. I've found a couple of programs that address this limitation.
Soltys, Keith. IRTC (2001). Resources>Software>Editing
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The following list is for resources related to the production of online help and for discussion of online communication in general. The Online Help section was originally for Windows Help only, but can now be taken to include other forms of online help, such as HTML Help and JavaHelp.
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What to Expect When Moving to SGML
From the authors author's viewpoint, working with structured documents does not change if there is going to be an SGML representation of the document. There is more setup work for the developer to prepare an application, though.
Price, Lynne A. IRTC (2001). Design>Web Design>CSS
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An explanation of how one writer is using XML to produce documentation and why it's such a great idea.
Skeet, Michael. IRTC (2001). Design>Web Design>XML
