I Heart Tech Docs, Ivan Walsh, Technical Writer

Writing for the web is different that writing for a magazine, newspaper or business journal. Before writing web content, spend some time looking at how information architecture and navigation systems work.
Web Writing Tips
1. On the web, write in small digestible chucks, which fit into the information hierarchy. To create your hierarchy, outline the website as [...]

Jakob Nielsen explains the different benefits that Short versus Long articles bring to your site, especially if you are running an online business.

Snagit has an eye dropper tool that makes it easy to match colors in your capture. Here’s how to use it

If you want an introduction to DITA, not Dita Von Tesse sadly, then IBM developerWorks is the place to go. The summary describes DITA as “The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. This architecture consists of a set of design principles for creating "information-typed" [...]

Technical writers and information developers will be interested in the latest release from Bluestream Database Software Corp. Its flagship XML content management solutions, Bluestream XDocs is now available and offers a standards-based DITA Content Management System (CMS) meant to handle the management of content components.

Technical Writers looking for a new role and with experience using automated documentation tools such as Doxygen and Epydoc should contact ImageMovers Digital. This motion picture studio is devoted to the films of Academy Award-winning director/producer Robert Zemeckis and is looking for talented tech writers.

Adobe InContext Editing 1.5 – Update your site via web browser

Adobe has released its Technical Communication Suite v1.3, a suite of tools for authoring, managing, and publishing interactive technical documentation with . The suite includes Adobe Captivate 3, Adobe FrameMaker 8, RoboHelp 7 and now the latest version of Acrobat – Acrobat 9 Pro Extended, replacing Acrobat 3D with the highest version of Acrobat software available.