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Dan the technical writer strode purposefully into the office's new workout
room. He was currently running on the treadmill 30 minutes a day during
lunch.
As he started his run, the new engineer, Alicia, came in and began running
on the treadmill beside him. She smiled at him and said, "Your images
were great on the new user's guide. It must have taken you forever to
annotate them so perfectly!"
Wanting to revel in the compliment but also give due to his trustworthy
program, Dan puffed, "No - annotating images is easy when you use SnagIt."
He hurried to clear away her blank look by saying, "SnagIt is a screen
capture program that lets you take any area of the screen you see. You
can then annotate that image with arrows, text and callouts. You can even
create and save your own custom annotation objects. Anyway, then you have
a finished product that you can paste into the document or save as a
file." He gulped in air.
"Wow . . . I can think of lots of times when that would be useful - like
when I want to get images off the Internet, or when I need just a small
area of the screen. Can I send the images to other destinations? Can I
write on the images? Can I get an entire web page as one image?" she
asked.
Dan marveled that she wasn't out of breath. "Yes - why don't we eat
together after this and I'll tell you all about it?" he managed to say
before gasping.
She enthusiastically said that was a great idea, and they continued to run
in silence.
Dan's hip hurt and his lungs burned in his chest, but all he could hear
was the rhythm of his legs pounding out, "SnagIt WORKS. SnagIt WORKS.
SnagIt WORKS."
Online-Learning.com: What Do Students Say About Our Classes?
"The class is almost identical to a graduate level course I took
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Lisa (Professional Online Help System Design)
Excellent materials and assignments! I also LOVE all the
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clearly written and is a skillful distillation of the vast amount
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"I had a lot of fun taking the class, thanks in no small part to
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HOT OFF THE PRESS: _Mastering HTML and XHTML_,
by TECHWR-L's Ray & Ray Team
What's the difference between HTML and XHTML? And,
which one is right for my needs?
GIFs, JPGs, PNGs. What's the difference, and how
do I know which one to use?
What are ways I can reduce image file size for
use in Web pages?
How do I calculate how long my Web pages will take
visitors to download?
Tables and frames are commonly used on the Web to
develop interesting designs. What do you
mean that they pose significant drawbacks
for some site visitors?
I have a large Web site developed in HTML. Why and how
should I go about converting my site to XHTML?
I've used the <<FONT>> tag throughout my site to add
formatting. Now the W3C tells us not to use
this tag and to use style sheets instead. Yikes!
What do I do?
How do I track users to my site, and detect which browsers
they're using?
A tech writer who works for me keeps telling me that
the multimedia used on our site poses challenges
for both site developers and visitors. What
challenges could multimedia pose?
The JavaScript pop-ups and such we have on our site
work just fine. Can Flash Animations improve
on these effects?
Why should I plan for Web site redesign and maintenance
even before I develop the site?
I use search tools on Web sites all the time. What's
this I hear that there are drawbacks to including
a site search engine?
How do I add "breadcrumbs" to my site?
I've heard noise about Web site "accessibility." What
exactly is accessibility? Is it really that
important? And how can I adapt my site to be
accessible?
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Find these topics and more in _Mastering HTML and XHTML_,
by Deborah S. Ray and Eric J. Ray, Sybex, September, 2002
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