Google announces support for FAQ and How-to structured data

“Today we are announcing support for FAQ and How-to structured data on Google Search and the Google Assistant, including new reports in Search Console to monitor how your site is performing.” https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/05/new-in-structured-data-faq-and-how-to.html https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/how-to https://schema.org/HowTo It will be interesting how this will/can co-exist with DITA.

Review of Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process

Mark Baker has published a new book called Structured Writing: Rhetoric and Process. It is probably the most important book on technical communication since Anne Gentle’s Docs Like Code. In this post, we’ll look at what the book covers. We’ll also include quotations from Mark’s book and his website. About the book The book provides an overview… Read more »

Adobe announces Adobe Technical Communication Suite 2019

Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Technical Communication Suite (2019 release). The suite comprises FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Captivate, Acrobat Pro DC and Adobe Presenter. We’ve been involved in the preview programme, and we can say there have been quite a number of changes with this release. One of the biggest changes to FrameMaker and RoboHelp has been to… Read more »

Which type of platform is best for developer documentation?

At the Write The Docs event in London last night, Gergely Imreh presented Resin.io’s approach to customer-driven docs – documentation as self service support. Resin.io is a software company that provides Linux containers to the Internet of Things. It sees itself as a support-driven organisation, and so documentation is very important to them. The discussions at the… Read more »