Managing Your
Documentation Projects
Managing Your
Documentation Projects
Writing and
Editing for Technical People
User Training
Document
configuration management
Document
preparation management
Working within
the computer network environment
Working with
software tools (scripts, batch files etc)
Documentation
reviews (how to review effectively)
Maintenance
watchdog - how to spot potential maintenance traps
Maintenance
planning - how to produce low maintenance documents
Form design
— creating forms that work
User's
advocate — how to ensure the end user is being considered
Original
writing — our successful tell it to your mother paradigm
Business
communication and letter writing — more mother stuff
Using Style
Guides — making a style guide that is your friend, not your enemy
Interpreting
Standards — how to see they are actually helping you
MMI advice and
design — for example, this site's design, which reduces mouse movements to
primarily a small area of the screen (versus the standard approach of all over the
screen).
