To Click or Select…
Your styleguide says it is ‘select’. The whole world says ‘click’. You are confused. So am I. I have tried being informal while writing instructions: “Hit the Submit button to complete regiustration.” But they spanked me for being so casual and changed ‘hit’ to ‘select’. You know, no one reads manuals. Now I know why.
Need inputs: Talk on usability
Hi folks, I have been invited to talk about usability to a bunch of people that are training to be technical communicators. The duration of the session is two hours. I don’t want it to be a ‘words only’ session. Of course, I would be talking to them about the basics, the importance of usability, […]
Prepend
Came across this term Prepend. Prepend is a word commonly used as the antonym of append, which means add at the end. Prepend is not a valid English term. But I don’t think it will stay that way for long.
GUI Glossary
Checkbox or check box? How many times have you been caught in that awful knot? Here is a little help: GUI Glossary: definitions of frequently used GUI terms. Enjoy!
Enhancing Internal Communications with Blogs, Wikis, and More
Insightful presentations by Nick Finck, Mary Hodder, and Biz Stone. If you are in anyway related to Intranets you may want to check these out: Enhancing Internal Communications with Blogs, Wikis, and More The Why and How of Blogging
Merry Christmas Folks!
Merry Christmas Folks! Have a great holiday season and a terrific new year. 🙂 Write to me: Suman[at]sumankumar[dot]com
Comments System: Anyone Can Post Comments Now!
Folks, I know some of you were irritated by the fact that you had to login (if you’re a Blogger user) or post as Anonymous while posting comments on this blog. I have done away with that. Now, anyone can post comments. No need to login to Blogger and stuff. Trust this improves the interaction […]
Hollywood May Hire You!
Check this out. This is a brilliant observation: >”Screenwriting = Creative Technical Writing”
Firefox: Tech writer friendly!
Firefox has an in-built popup blocker. Firefox saves your screenspace through its tabbed-browsing feature. Firefox allows for opening multiple sites using tabs (within one instance), unlike IE that opens a separate instance of the browser everytime you open a new window. What it means is that you could be browsing 20 sites, but there is […]
Tech-writers – A Necessary Evil
In a world where accuracy is all important, a lot goes over the head of the dummy. I don’t know if it’s intellectual snobbery, but programmers and managers seem to think that if they understand it, so should the user. It doesn’t matter whether or not they do… they SHOULD! Stupid users! Maybe it’s the […]