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Agile project management at a glance

Traditional project management Waterfall is the traditional project management style. It goes through distinct, consecutive phases, such as planning, execution, and testing. Construction and engineering projects typically use waterfall project management. One project...

Tools Webinar: Madcap Software Suite

Rescheduled! Join us for the second in a series of Tool webinars, where we will have experts outline a specific Tech Comm tool, and why it is something that should be in your arsenal. Our second tools webinar is on the Madcap Software Suite (particularly Flare and...

Copyright and Technical Writing

What is copyright? Copyright is the exclusive right of a creator of a piece of work. That work may be literary or written material, images, photographs, music, or artistic works. This work or product is also referred to as intellectual property. The unauthorized use...

A Flare CSS primer: CSS in action

(This is the second of two articles about Madcap Flare's use of Cascading Style Sheets) In a previous article, A Flare CSS Primer, we looked at how Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) work to selectively apply formatting. In this article, we’ll take this theoretical...

A Flare CSS primer: Essential CSS concepts

(This is the first of two articles about Madcap Flare and CSS) If you’re just getting into Flare, you may be surprised to find many similarities with Word. If you use Flare the way you use Word, you might be very productive, but you’d be missing out on some of Flare’s...

Creating a relationship table in Madcap Flare

Flare has a powerful and flexible tool called relationship tables, which allow you to group related topic pages, and also include one or more concept and reference links. A “concept” link typically displays a page that relates to all the tasks in the table, such as a...

The basics of linking topics in Flare

Flare gives you several basic tools for grouping links to related topics. The most time-consuming method is manual — you create a Related Topics list of hyperlinks at the bottom of each topic page. To do this, type the heading, “Related topics”, then type each topic...

Customize Flare’s tripane icons

It’s a nice touch to customize the icons used in Flare’s tripane online help. Sometimes small design touches make a noticeable contribution to the polish and professionalism of online help. In this post I’ll take you through the steps of finding the icons in an output...

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