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Describing or clarifying: How do we explain stuff? September 7, 2016
So our company has an elevator pitch competition. The task is to explain in 30 seconds “What does our company do?” The submissions indicate that “to explain” means different things to different people. To some, it means “to describe or summarise information”. To others, it means “to translate and clarify for others”. The two meanings […]
Kai
Structured topics, taxonomies & lightning at #STC14 May 23, 2014
More than 600 technical communicators met for the annual STC Summit in Phoenix, AZ, to demonstrate and expand the many ways in which they add value for users, clients, and employers. In a series of posts, I describe my personal Summit highlights and insights that resonated with me. The journey to structured topics I’ve framed […]
Kai

Read the book! June 25, 2015
XML Press has published MadCap Flare for Programmers: A guide to getting the most from Flare by Thomas Tregner and David Owens. I’m pretty excited about this. We cover the core subjects of this blog, often in greater detail. Some of the examples will look familiar but with more background information and deeper explanations. Other examples […]
Thomas Tregner
Fun with Online TOCs!: #4, Single Page Scrolling Navigation Using XHTML Book and Bootstrap Scrollspy April 4, 2014
My manager asked me to build a prototype single page Flare output that implements a right-hand navigation that updates with scrolling. The example I was given was the documentation for the Bootstrap library. The documentation for Bootstrap uses Bootstrap. We used Bootstrap too. Here is how the prototype looks. The link after this image is […]
Thomas Tregner