Tuesday, June 27, 2006

We now have a shop

See www.cherryleaf.com/shop.htm. Open all hours. Here, you can purchase online training courses, reports and self-teach guides on writing and technical communication.

Not much on offer at present, but we now have the platform and we'll be adding new items in due course.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Getting to grips with Madcap Flare

Carol has written a review on what this latest authoring tool offers Help designers, which has been published in the Summer 2006 edition of "The Communicator". She was "highly impressed with Flare's rich set of features". However, "Madcap has seemed to have overlooked some usability aspects".

Carol's cat, Ella, makes a guest appearance in the article, too, in some of the screenshots.

Cherryleaf now offers training in Flare, and consultancy to RoboHelp users planning to migrate to Flare. Contact us if you'd like to know more.

Nose to the grindstone

That's what it has felt like in recent weeks. So we've re-organised things a little bit inside Cherryleaf, allocating more resource to our recruitment service. For the record, the jobs we post are real, live vacancies. We're pretty strict about taking filled or dead positions off our list.

We're also close to "going live" with something new, something we've wanted to do for a long time. Watch this space!

Thursday, June 15, 2006

RoboHelp problem

Apparently, the latest security patch to Microsoft Word 2003 breaks RoboHelp. The problem occurs with WebHelp: a long list of fonts gets attached to the first topic of any document you have changed.