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RE: Proof that content is more important than style
Subject:RE: Proof that content is more important than style From:"Sean O'Donoghue-Hayes (EAA)" <Sean.O'Donoghue-Hayes -at- ericsson -dot- com -dot- au> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:39:38 +1100
Valid content prepared and presented in a style that enables the target
audience to gain the most value from the document/online help/quick
reference card/label is most important.
With content you don't need style, without a style that enables the audience
to accept and understand the information the content is meaningless.
((and an example? Well how about Vatican 2. Sure the content was always
there, but the audience had changed. So they changed the presentation.))
regards and thanks,
Sean
EAA/N,
Melbourne Central, Level 34.99,
360 Elizabeth Street,
Melbourne 3000
sig line: "and now that I have emailed the discussion expires....."
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Murrell [mailto:trmurrell -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Monday, 18 November 2002 12:00 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Proof that content is more important than style
What amazes me is the number of otherwise seemingly intelligent people who
blunder
right into this discussion as if it was about something. (See my earlier
comments
about straw men.)
As for my closing characterization, I'll stand with Forrest Gump on this
one, and I
won't yield an inch.
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