Ed. Katherine Judge, ISSN 0953-3699.
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Contents
Features
- Plain language approaches and examples. Want to know more about plain language? The founders of Simplified explain how to make content clearer. Frances Gordon and Candice Burt
- Guidelines for e-learning localisation. Sharing lessons about how to create multi-lingual versions of e-learning and other complex content. Paul Ballard
- Design visuals using Gestalt principles. Investigating the Gestalt principles and how they can be used to design visuals in product documentation. Geetha Haridas
- Punctuation for professionals. Exploring the challenge of teaching technical writing skills to highly qualified technical experts. Brian Lanigan
- Miele puts its trust in SCHEMA.Explaining why Miele chose SCHEMA ST4 for its 15000 documents translated into 40 languages. Philipp Eng and Adrian Schröder
- Topic-based video. The creation of videos can be viewed as topic-based writing, taken to extremes. Providing tips for improving your video content. Eran (Yuri) Kolber
- How MadCap Flare re-ignited my career. Sharing his journey as a technical writer and telling how MadCap Flare played a central role in getting him where he is today. Daniel Ferguson
- Creating user forms: part 2. Coding an interface for your VBA code. Mike Mee
- Going mobile! Is your documentation suitable for mobile? Should it be? Introducing a series of articles about why going mobile is a must. Phil Lane
Regular columns
- From the editor
- President’s view
- Business affiliates
- MadCap tips – Matthew Ellison
- Adobe tips – Bharat Prakash
- Book review – The Product is Docs. Writing technical documentation in a product group. By Christopher Gales and the Splunk Documentation Team. Reviewed by Linda Robins
- Ethical dilemmas – Warren Singer
- Editing – Luke Finley