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Archive for 2008
Quick Reference Guide Formats — Tips for Finding Attractive Layouts
December 31st, 2008 | Posted in blog | 4 Comments »
Quick reference guides provide one or two page condensed instructions. Formats for quick reference guides vary dramatically and can involve complex, multi-colored layouts, or just simple text callouts next to a few images. The other day I stopped by a local thrift store (Desert Industries) and picked up a few magazines for $.25 cents a piece, looking for attractive layouts that I could use as … more »
I love Typography (iLT), devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical
December 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
I love Typography (iLT), devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical
Presentation Zen: If you could recommend only one book (on graphic design)
December 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Presentation Zen: If you could recommend only one book (on graphic design)
Overcoming Indecision
December 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Overcoming Indecision
Free Clipart and images | Quentin Brown
December 30th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Free Clipart and images | Quentin Brown
Generational tech guilt?
December 30th, 2008 | Posted in blog | 2 Comments »
In one of Alistair Christie’s recent podcasts, he interviews his 70-year-old mother about how she uses computers. Although they cover many topics in the interview, her tech guilt is the most salient part of the discussion. She blames herself for not understanding how to work computers and navigate websites. When she can’t locate certain features on an interface (for example, Paypal), her first inclination isn’t … more »
WordPress Tip: Integrate WordPress into an Existing Website
December 28th, 2008 | Posted in blog | 8 Comments »
I integrated a WordPress blog into another website this weekend. The original site, pictured below, was http://tamarabonet.com. Here’s the WordPress blog I customized (http://tamarabonet.com/blog) to look identical to the existing site: This is my third blog design in which I ported over an existing html site into a WordPress theme. I’m getting better at it, but it still takes me a full day to do … more »
Audio / Video – The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry
December 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Audio / Video – The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry
Gryphon Mountain Journals » Blog Archive » Giving the Instructions a Fair Shot
December 28th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Giving the Instructions a Fair Shot
A Tech Writer's World: A Killer Manual
December 26th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
A Tech Writer’s World: A Killer Manual.
Podcast: Technical Writing in Agile Environments — Interview with Alyssa Fox
December 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Podcasts | Comments Off
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download MP3 (to download, right-click and select Save Target As) Duration: 28 min. In this podcast, I interview Alyssa Fox, an information development manager at NetIQ, about technical writing in agile environments. Agile environments involve short iterations of product development, such as three to six weeks to complete a release, rather than the longer one to two years … more »
The Chicago Manual of Style Online
December 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
The Chicago Manual of Style Online
Documentation Honesty and Poor User Interfaces — An Ethical Dilemma?
December 21st, 2008 | Posted in blog | 5 Comments »
Rilynn from New England writes, Tom, I notice that a lot of companies use release notes to post a list of defects (bug) that were fixed with the corresponding software release. This is something that I appreciate as a software user. I realize that I’m not the user of my company’s products, though. Also, management at my company is really against adopting this practice, seeing … more »
What I See — James Hall’s Essays and Florida
December 21st, 2008 | Posted in blog | 4 Comments »
On my father’s recent visit from Florida, he brought me a stack of books, one of them James Hall’s collection of essays, Hot Damn! James Hall is a poet and crime novelist, but he once wrote essays for a newspaper for several years. This book is a collection of those essays. The topics of Hall’s essays range widely — from adventures in Florida to experiences … more »
Presentation Zen: 10 rules for making good design
December 18th, 2008 | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments Off
Presentation Zen: 10 rules for making good design