radical revamping of techpubs

[Technical Writer]

Exactly. And that is in the province of the developer, the programmers, and the GUI designers. Using TW to cover up poor design and inadequate programming is not particularly useful for anyone.http://www.tekwrytrs.com/Specializing in the Design, Development, and Production of:Technical Documentation - Online Content - Enterprise Websites> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:08:58 -0700> From: athloi at yahoo.com> Subject: RE: radical revamping of techpubs> To: rinnie1 at yahoo.com; tekwrytr at hotmail.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com> > As users become more technically savvy, they become less dependent on> vague manuals and more interested in software with a smooth, intuitive,> powerful interface and reliable function. See blog post on this issue:> > http://user-advocacy.blogspot.com/2007/10/users-replacing-specialists-in-it-and.html> > --- Rene Stephenson <rinnie1 at yahoo.com> wrote:> > > The involvement of TW/doc mgr early on is not initially> > for writing the doc as muc as it is for user advocacy, sanity checks> > of UIS or other specs from a user-driven perspective, as well as> > getting buy-in and resource allocation far enough in advance that> > creating a remotely usable document is at all feasible. The later> > the TW is inserted into the process, the harder it is to create> > anything better than basic functionally-driven documents.> > > > > http://technical-writing.dionysius.com/> technical writing | consulting | development> > __________________________________________________> Do You Yahoo!?> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com 
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