I am a fan of an approach that separates content development from web
design. A writer/editor develops content and a web designer designs the web
pages, css, etc. In my opinion, these are two vastly different skill sets.
Sure, some can do both, but designing responsive sites that will work with
KenPo has nothing to be concerned about; he'll do just fine with Flare.
There are tons of samples on the MadCap site to play with.
I taught Flare for years, after teaching Robo back when it was good, and
fast. One thing that most students stumbled over was the interface. You just
need to remember
Absolutely
From: "Carol J. Elkins"
To: "An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker, software."
Sent: Friday, 28 February, 2020 10:14:10
Subject: Re: [Framers] MadCap Flare
Sadly, IMHO, not enough attention is given to the quality of content
on most Web sites today. That is
At 11:19 AM 2/28/2020, Ken Poshedly wrote:
I also urge everybody to download and use Belarc Advisor to record
and store a data file of literally every piece of hardware and
software on your platform.
Ditto what Ken said about Belarc Advisor. It identifies everything
there is to know about
Gang,
Because at least one Adobe staffer that I know of frequents this list, I'd like
to offer my own shout-out to Adobe for helping me with a nasty problem a few
weeks ago.
It was only after trying to access the Windows 10 program called "Moviemaker"
on my home-based terminal, not finding it
Sadly, IMHO, not enough attention is given to the quality of content
on most Web sites today. That is the part of Web design that you will
excel at, Ken, because you are a tech writer. I firmly believe that
good Web design must start with usability and audience consideration
to develop the
Lots of people think Flare has a steep learning curve.
When I first used it, I was an expert RoboHelp user, and had used
quite a few other topic-per-file tools such as XMetal and DreamWeaver,
so the learning curve should have been close to flat, but there were a
lot of things I knew it could do
If it's web site content rather than online help, you might want to
migrate it away from Flare anyway.
The first web browser was release in March 1993, so
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 9:57 AM Peter Gold wrote:
>
> I started training people to use personal computers and productivity
> software
I started training people to use personal computers and productivity
software in the '80s. IIRC, web pages were almost non-existent back then.;)
Seriously, consider looking at the company's site, maybe even be proactive
and ask to discuss them with someone who can indicate what they are
thinking
Frankly, I'd disagree - if you can use Word & FM, you can use RH or Flare - you
may not get all the subtleties in it, but topics are topics and styles are the
same as paragraph tags and cross refs are just hyperlinks to bookmarks. The
barrier to entry is pretty low. I'd say you should go ahead
FrameMaker is not similar to any other tech docs authoring tool. It's
fundamentally a page layout program.
Flare is fundamentally an HTML authoring tool. It's very similar to
RoboHelp and many other help authoring tools. If you've never used a
similar HTML authoring tool, the learning curve could
Group,
At a job interview yesterday (February 27), one of the folks I met with stated
her hopes that besides the usual technical writing duties, she plans for a
modernization of one of the company's web pages. Her comment was that "It's so
1980s."
While I've done online content here and
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