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People are always asking me where I've learned what I've learned.
Well, I read - all the time. Here are the books I recommend for anyone
interested in computer technology, including the web.
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Managing Your Documentation Projects — author:
Joann T. Hackos
Overview: Practical advice about how to manage and coordinate your
projects. Appendices offer templates, checklists, and a sample report.
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Designing
and Writing Online Documentation — author:
William K. Horton
Presents real problems/solutions you'll face while creating online
materials, and warns you of a few you may not have thought of yet.
This is one of the books I recommend to everyone when they first
venture into online communication.
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Human
Factors for Technical Communicators — author:
Marlana Coe
Introduces human theory and shows how to translate it into practice.
With examples drawn from real life, it tackles everything from using
color to graphics to layout to getting feedback from users and more.
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The
Inmates Are Running the Asylum : Why High Tech Products Drive Us
Crazy and How To Restore The Sanity
— author: Alan Cooper
If you are designing hardware or software you must read this
book. Put aside what you think you know, and look at things
through Allan's view.
Really, it's that important.
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Standards
for Online Communication: Publishing Information for the Internet/World
Wide Web/Help Systems/Corporate Intranets —
author: Joann T. Hackos, Dawn M. Stevens
Provides answers to the "How do I make this work?"
questions faces by technical writers, online help architects, and
web designers. The book includes a CD-ROM with an online version of
the book (which employs the techniques described in the book).
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Illustrating
Computer Documentation : The Art of Presenting Information Graphically
on Paper and Online — author: William K. Horton
Shows you how to turn complex ideas and instructions into pictures--quickly
and easily--to create images that will be noticed, understood, and
acted on.
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