Technical communication blog
Technical communication blogWith bits of copywriting, content design, and other stuff too
Technical communication blog
With bits of copywriting, content design, and other stuff too
Welcome to the StrayGoat Technical Communication Blog.
Here, I’ll be posting technical writing advice, opinion pieces, recommendations, and explanations on how to achieve various tasks with different software tools. (The latter of which is going to be a reminder for me as much as anyone else!).
If you find the technical writing advice posts useful, please leave a comment.
Some of the older posts have some formatting issues, due to conversion problems when I upgraded the site theme. Sadly, the comments were lost in migration too.
Technical communication blog posts
General posts about technical communication:
Paligo – Information types. An interview with Anders Svensson
UK technical writer discusses information types with Paligo CEO Anders Svensson. Find out what information types are and how they are used in Paligo and DITA
Technical Writing/Content Design Part 2: Discovery
Content designers begin with a discovery process, where they find out the needs of the organisation and its audience. Could the same process be useful to technical writers? Technical writer, Craig Wright, takes a look.
Topic-Based Documentation
Topic-based documentation is a more modular approach to creating technical communication. Instead of writing all the content in one document, you create sections in separate files. This can save you a lot of time, effort, and money when updating your content. Click the link to find out more.
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Adding Topics in Flare
Are you a Flare 'noob' and struggling to see how to structure your content? Then this article is just for you. Here, you will find out all about adding topics in the TOC rather than in the Content Explorer. Is There any Structure to the Topics? Today, I was asked by a...
Using JavaScript and jQuery Scripts in MadCap Flare
You can use JavaScript and jQuery scripts to customise your Flare HTML5 output in many different ways, including adding menus, animated sections and much more. To implement these features, you will need to need to know where your scripts can be used, which is what I'm...
MadCap Flare – Associating a Topic with a Different Master Page to the Project
UPDATE: This article applies to Flare versions 11 and less. A new feature was introduced in Flare 12 to make it much easier to associate topics with a different Master Page...
DITA blog posts
Here are some posts about DITA. I rarely post about DITA, as I don’t use it, but sometimes post about how to achieve certain things.
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MS Word blog posts
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Camtasia and Snagit blog posts
Tips and reminders for using TechSmith Camtasia and Snagit.
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Non-technical communication posts
Sometimes, I post things that are nothing to do with tech comm, but people might find useful. You’ll find those posts here.
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