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Subject:Re: What good is it if you can't find it? From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- editors-writers -dot- info> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 15 Nov 2002 16:28:37 -0500
Sean Hower
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> Sue Gallagher wrote:
> The art and skill of technical writing is a combination
> of information and design and you cannot supply one without
> the other and still call yourself a technical writer. And
> no, I'm not talking about "font fondling", I'm talking
> about good, solid, information design that makes the content
> accessible to the user.
> -------------------------
>
> YES!!!!!!!!
> Myopia runs on both extremes of the content/design debate for any number of
reasons (and I'd really like to dig a bit deeper to find out why some people
are as fanatical as they are). As with life in general, the all-or-nothing
stances on both sides of the content/design war are wrong. The truth lies in
the middle and may sway towards one direction or the other depending
on......<gasp /> your target audience!
>
>
Just one, just *one*, show me just one single person on this list who has
taken the "content is dog" stance? Just one.
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