Here are three books to help you get up to speed on MadCap Flare. As supplements, these books enrich your knowledge of how to take advantage of the features in the tool. For new users, it helps you get up to speed on key feature in an easy to read, quick reference book form for your writing desk as you explore the work environment.
The books are all well written, carefully researched. Get quality and rich, printed learning resources to help master MadCap Flare in the shortest time. Learn a new feature or uncover new techniques and shortcuts for your projects.
Written by engaging, instructional designers and authors, with a vast experience with MadCap Flare. The books are all readily available for purchase online and Amazon. Coincidentally, one of the books listed here is also an STC award winning book.
Five Steps to MadCap Flare (version 5 and 6) by Lorraine Kupka and Joy Underhill
With a combined experience of more than 50 years in the industry, Lorraine and Joy put their extensive and rich expertise to help you master and apply MadCap Flare easily in your information development projects. If you are currently using MadCap Flare 6, make sure you get the new 2010 version. The new version is updated with brand new topics and tips on working with DITA topics, templates, text redaction, importing multiple external HTML files and more.
MadCap Flare Certified Test Review + Developers Guide
Current versions have been updated for MadCap Flare 6.
Among the first MadCap Flare books to be authored in a series by Scott DeLoach, MadCap Certified Instructor and MadCap Authorized Developer for Flare. He is the author of more than fives books on Flare and Blaze. This is the official training guide to helps you master and prepare yourself for MadCap Flare certification. This official training guide presents key practices and advanced skills to help you with the MadCap Flare Certified Test. This guide is still useful for both experienced and beginners alike – all eager to master Flare with zero obligation to take the test. The guide is written in Scott’s always refreshing style of careful, concise, to the point writing.
Creating user-friendly Online Help: Basics and implementation with MadCap Flare by Petra Thiermann and David Krings
This 2009 book is a compelling introduction to creating user-friendly online help using MadCap Flare. Different from the first two books, this book is based on an original edition previously available in German. This English edition provides you with a compelling introduction that is applicable to other help authoring tools. Written and translated by David Krings, a MadCap Flare expert and leading contributor on the MadCap peer-to-peer user forums, he brings his deep passion, experience and commitment to the original German work by Petra Thiermann to carefully translate and author a brand new English edition. Some sections, originally written by Petra for a German audience has been thoughtfully rewritten for an English speaking audience.
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Posted on July 27, 2010
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