Technical writing in the Cloud

One of the most popular developments in computing in recent years has been the emergence of cloud-based computing and Software as a Service (SaaS). Examples of cloud-based computing include Google’s GMail: Instead of an application being installed locally on a user’s computer, it runs on a remote server, accessed via the user’s Web browser. So is technical… Read more »

Author-it 5 self-study training course launched today

We’ve added two self-study training courses in Author-it version 5 today – one for Author-it users and the other for Author-it Administrators and Users. This year, we’ve also introduced a classroom courses in RoboHelp 7 and FrameMaker 8, and we’ve launched an updated version of our DITA training course. We’ve another course in development and… Read more »

Author-it 5.1 launched

From Author-it: “This update resolves a number of known issues and has several new features including: Object Variants: A flexible way of creating and maintaining different variations of a single object. Similar to versions, variants remain linked to their primary (or parent) object, however unlike versions you can have multiple variants active at any one… Read more »