1. Should I User Third-Party Software In My Website?
(Web Design/Web Design Tips and Articles)

... the long run through the volume of projects you’re able to complete. This type of scenario is often used by many of the larger technology corporations. In his book, Sketching User Experience, Bill ...

2. Free Alternatives to Expensive Technical Writing Software
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... asked me whether or not it's really worth it to learn a tool different than the actual tool they may be using in the workplace. My answer is yes, it is, because transferring the knowledge from one type ...

3. How to Write Editing Comments For Authors
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

...  A last type of comment to include often, especially when you just begin working with an author, is one telling the author why you made a change. Another big complaint authors have is that editors make ...

4. What is a Technical Writing Portfolio?
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... of different types of pieces made for various employers, reasons and with a different types of tools. Personally, I have about 7-8 different pieces that represent internal documentation, external user ...

5. How to Gain Experience in Technical Writing
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... to perform real professional writing, get great experience, and start collecting samples for their portfolio. Who you work for will depend on what type of writing you want to do. If you are looking to ...

6. 5 Important Books in Technical Writing
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... introducing the subject and pointing out how technical writing is different than other types of writing. They give the basic considerations writers must make before and during the creation of professional ...

7. Quickly Getting into Technical Writing
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... to write well, tech writers have also been erroneously seen in the past as "tool jockeys" (people who "know" a bunch of different types of software tools). Times, however, have changed dramatically. As ...

8. Using Old School Web Design
(Web Design/Web Design Tips and Articles)

... findings, or simply because of changes in style and taste. Technology allowed new and different methods to be used. Hence, animated gifs were traded for Flash-type animation. And research demonstrated ...

9. Writing Blog Content as Technical Writing
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... type of experience is also good for students to learn things like deadlines and critical assessment of their work. Although they're in school, deadlines and criticism in the workplace are often much harsher ...

10. How to Use Color in Your Documents
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... alone, however, should be used in synch with white space, font size, type and placement of whatever it is you want someone to be attracted to. Furthermore, just because something is filled with a bright ...

11. Web Design: Font and Page Size
(Web Design/Web Design Tips and Articles)

... they are no longer in use.The first exhibit deals with font, text and page size. Font type and size. What a boring element to start with, but what an important ingredient in any written communication. ...

12. How to Write Policies and Procedures
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... and legal experts may (unfortunately) read your P&P's if they are ever needed during some type of legal action. So you must also consider these two sets of readers. Each of these audiences must be kept ...

13. Why You Should Edit Your Information
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

... But in an important process, or in any information that must be quickly understood, it is absolutely imperative that the information be edited for these types of mistakes. What's more, if you plan on translating ...

14. How to Use Metaphors in Web Site Design
(Web Design/Web Design Tips and Articles)

... they will automatically be trained in how to use your site simply because they understand the object your site is designed to emulate. You might already be familiar with this type of approach to interfaces. ...

15. Persuasive Writing Example
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... communicator for ZZZZ knows exactly what type of skills and training our students need. Thus, without YYYY’s help, our students would receive an education based on what we—the instructors—only think is ...

16. PowerPoint Tips
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... and by giving the audience another outlet (other than an oral type) for the transfer of the ideas. It has bee shown in studies that when people receive the same information in multiple ways (hearing it, ...

17. Resume Guide Part 9
(Resume Writing/Resume Writing Lessons)

The Experience-oriented Resume The Experience-oriented Resume is the type with which most of us are probably familiar. What are highlighted in this format are your past employment positions and your past ...

18. Resume Guide Part 8
(Resume Writing/Resume Writing Lessons)

Are There Certain Types of Resumes for Certain Types of Jobs? Another good question from my students—and one I don’t blame them for asking. There are a lot of books out there with titles like, “Resumes ...

19. Resume Guide Part 6
(Resume Writing/Resume Writing Lessons)

...  Tool skills and knowledge: Some type of proficiency in the tools being used at this job, whether they are software, hardware, construction tools or methodologies. There are normally a few different ways ...

20. Resume Guide Part 4
(Resume Writing/Resume Writing Lessons)

... her? I could tell an employer I’m a likable person, but without proof I’m just making an exaggerated boast! The only way to prove certain types of qualifications are through examples, such as Jessica’s ...

21. Resume Guide Part 2
(Resume Writing/Resume Writing Lessons)

... same way: assist, mediate, and counsel. They are all the same type of verb, present-tense. And the sentences under the next two sections also begin with the same type of verb: assisted, reviewed, ensured, ...

22. Minimum Functionality for Increased Usability
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

... actually exists as the body of each item. Thus, as the point wears down, the marking ability continues. Both crayons and chalk also excel past other types In terms of how easy it is to make marks. Some ...

23. Resume Guide Part 1
(Resume Writing/Resume Writing Lessons)

... you want them to give you a job. Why beat around the bush? These are the types of questions I’m asked every year by college students taking one of my writing classes. After putting in so many years at ...

24. How to Align Text
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... align your text as appropriate for the information and your audience. Studies have found that certain types of text alignment help people more easily find and read information. For a Western audience--most ...

25. Technical Communication and Programming: Using Writing Rules
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... useless, such as comments containing outdated or obvious information). Unfortunately the case is that so often programmers find these types of comments instead of the useful kind, stop paying attention ...

26. Usability Testing: Task-based Testing
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

Task-based usability tests are perhaps the most important type of usability measurements available. Simply put, they require users to attempt to actually use the item in question. Their failure or success ...

27. Usability Testing: Tapping Task
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

... measuring device that Albers calls the tapping task, a participant is asked to sit in front of a monitor and view a particular web page. The participant is then asked to complete some type of task that ...

28. Usability and Engineering Design
(Usability/Usability Tips, Lessons and Articles)

... discomfort. Safety: Reducing the risk to the user by reducing any type of hazard to the lowest possible level. User-defined Specs: does is match the requests/needs/wants as made by the user? What's missing ...

29. How to Use Font Types: The Sequel
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

In the first lesson on font type I highlighted how they can be used to make information easier to understand, and how the look of the font accomplishes that. Here I'd like to discuss how fonts can actually ...

30. How to Use Font Type
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

You wouldn't think that something as seemingly insignificant as the type of font you use (i.e., Times New Roman, Arial, Helvetica, Garamond, etc.) could be so important, but it really is. As one of the ...

31. What Font Size to Use
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

Similar to the affect of font type, font size has a lot to do with how easily your information will be found, read and understood. Have you EVER found it easy to read the "fine print" of your credit card ...

32. Consistency in Writing
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

... see consistent elements. Like the example in figure 1, there should be similar heading levels written the same way: same font type, size and spacing before and after (A), graphics should be located in ...

33. Your Audience
(Technical Communication/Technical Communication Lessons)

Perhaps one of the most important aspects of technical communication, or any type of communication for that matter, is audience. Everything we write or communicate--if we expect to do it successfully--depends ...

34. Joomla! - Community News
(News Feeds / Joomla!)

http://www.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_rss_xtd&feed=RSS2.0&type=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=0&Itemid=33 ...

35. Joomla! - Official News
(News Feeds / Joomla!)

http://www.joomla.org/index.php?option=com_rss_xtd&feed=RSS2.0&type=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 ...