Help Authoring

Welcome to the 'Help Authoring' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'Help Authoring'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Help Authoring”

• Five Skills for Managing Documentation Projects in an Agile Environment

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 454
  Sometimes, the Agile software development methodology seems like it could be renamed the “Fly by the Seat of Your Pants” methodology. But really, it means that you need a somewhat different set of project management skills for your documentation. I could certainly improve in these skills, but here are a few I rely ...
  4 days ago

• Adding screenshots in help topics

  
  HelpScribe — Authority: 406
  Here are a few tips for adding screenshots to your help topics. Use contrast Use a high-contrast color for callouts, arrows, and other elements that reference screenshots. Avoid any color that is heavily used in the screenshot. I often see black callouts over screenshots with black interface elements. Such visual ...
  2 weeks ago

• Question of the Week: Adobe RoboHelp Projects... How Big is Too Big?

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 124
  Question: My team and I are preparing to work on projects in RoboHelp 8 and are looking into how to best publish the files. Were very interested in FTPing because it would give us the flexibility to publish on our own without depending on IT for deploying the !SSL files to the intranet (I have used FTP before, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Few Surprises in Using a Wiki for Documentation

  
  I'd Rather Be Writing - Tom Johnson — Authority: 493
  Recently I’ve been working on a simple calendar project that uses a wiki for documentation. Although I’ve heard a lot about using wikis for documentation, and have even used them in the past, I ran into a few surprises this time. 1. Authoring directly on a wiki screws up the history of updates. The way wikis ...
  3 weeks ago

• Adobe RoboHelp 8: Start Page, Project Title and Default Topic... Lets Get Them Straight Once and For All!

  
  I Came, I Saw, I Learned... — Authority: 124
  by Kevin Siegel As Ive continued to teach my online RoboHelp class to students who attend from all over the world, one recurring issue has been confusion over the following three RoboHelp features: the start page, the project title and the default topic. The three files/names are totally different, having nothing ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about Help Authoring