Technical communication blog
With 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:
Is Your Technical Communication Job Affecting your Health?
Could the way you think in your technical communication role be affecting your health? Hypervigilance can be good for work, not so good for your home life.
Accordion Menu in MadCap Flare – Part Five
This is Part 5 of a series of posts on how to create the following layout, complete with accordion menu and slide-in drill-down menu, in MadCap Flare. If you missed the previous parts, here are links: Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four In this post, I'm going to...
Accordion Menu in MadCap Flare – Part Four
UPDATE - Thanks to Nita Beck for pointing out the WordPress-introduced weirdness in the script in this section. I've changed the content so that you can now download the script rather than create it from scratch. I still recommend that you read through this section so...
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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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