by Craig | Friday, April 20, 2018 | Technical Communication Issues
Many of the leading technical authoring tools use a topic-based approach to content. This is a more modular approach to creating user guides and help systems, and if you are used to writing Word documents, moving to topic-based writing may seem odd at first. Here,...
by Craig | Sunday, March 16, 2014 | Technical Communication Issues
Taking a topic-based approach to your documentation can improve the quality of your manuals and online help, reduce your documentation costs, and make it easier for your writers to produce and update content. This approach is not new, but implementing it with the...
by Craig | Sunday, March 16, 2014 | Technical Communication Issues
Topic-based documentation is a way of writing documentation in stand-alone chunks, which are usually stored in separate files (or topics). Each topic focuses on one specific subject, and this applies to pretty much any type of user documentation. To illustrate the...
