These resources have been collated by members.
Flare expertise by other users are freely available on these blogs:
- TecWriter collects links to Flare-related blog posts with tips and tricks and product reviews from around the web.
- Flare for Programmers by Thomas Tregner helps when you seriously want to extend Flare’s capabilities and coding doesn’t scare you…
- ClickStart is the site by Flare trainer and book author Scott DeLoach where he presents all kinds of quick-and-easy tricks that make your Flare life easier.
- Hyper/Word by Neil Perlin offers a great cross-section of tech comm trends and techniques, not all of them Flare-related.
- Kai’s Tech Writing Blog has impressions and hints about Flare and topic-based authoring in general.
- MadBlog is MadCap’s official product blog with tips and tricks, but also technology and product news.
CSS (Cascading StyleSheets) are your friend when you want to style Flare’s output online and in print. Or it will be when you’re done with these helpful sites:
- Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started is a great primer, then go on to…
- Cascading Style Sheets (Part 1): Introduction and Overview, a free recording of a MadCap webinar with Mike Hamilton and
- Incorporating DIV Tags into Your WebHelp Design, a free recording of a MadCap webinar with Laura Charles Johnson
Once you’re on your way with CSS, these are great reference resources that let you look up stuff:
- CSS Tutorial by W3Schools
- CSS Tutorials by HTMLDog
- CSS2 Cheat Sheet by Dave Child summarises in a neat printable sheet
Books can give you a more in-depth experience of getting started with Flare than videos and web sites can. Once you’re up and running, they make for great desk references!
- MadCap Flare Developer’s Guide by Scott DeLoach, see his ClickStart blog above, is modular, so it’s easy to dip in, if you need help with individual tasks.
MadCap also has a host of good resources on their website. Their knowledge base contains the version release notes and other information straight from the Flare developers.
“How would you start learning Flare?” if you had little or no budget? The Flare Users group on LinkedIn provides several answers.