I’ve just returned to life at WebWorks.com after spending the past five days taking in SxSW Interactive. SxSW Interactive brings together an eclectic mix of doers, thinkers, and users. How many conferences have you experienced where the attendees and presenters include Sci-Fi authors, journalists, psychiatrists, psychologists, marketers, designers, coders, and gamers? People were as likely […]
Wiki Maturation – Tossing Tennis Balls
Have you heard the story of Quadralay’s 14 year old tennis balls? It’s a great example of what can happen when you fail to maintain the principles of business value and ownership.You see, back in the day (1994), we were working on creating this great new product to single-source FrameMaker 4.0 files to user-defined, text […]
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Why change ePublisher licensing?
or “What just happened to my 2008.1 keys?” Back at RoundUp 2007, I presented the WebWorks ePublisher 2008 road map. Development was excited to start work on the new feature set. We were also a bit overwhelmed by the tasks we had set for ourselves: full FrameMaker 8 and Vista support (delivered with 2008.1), Eclipse […]
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2-Celled Note Table
Someone asked me about this at RoundUp a few months ago, and I’m just now getting around to publishing it. I’ve just posted a tip for creating a two-celled note style table for a given paragraph style on the WebWorks wiki.The implementation uses the wwtransform:super resolver. We are working to make this the blessed way […]
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Frame 7 to Frame 8 problem
We have discovered a kind of a nasty problem which occurs when you bring FrameMaker 7 documents created in some non-English locale, into FrameMaker 8. This problem affects any text that is inserted into the FrameMaker 7 dialogs, such as the Paragraph Designer or the Marker dialog, under the non-English locale. When the docs are […]
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Page Template Preview Utility
As promised at RoundUp, I have posted a wiki article on the Page Template Preview utility. It lacks a number of things, such as good design, a clearly defined objective, among others. However, it was fun to write and I hope that it might be useful to anyone who may be trying to unravel Page […]
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Why use ePublisher Express?
2006 was the year the ePublisher Platform became whole. That was the year WebWorks.com introduced ePublisher Express. It’s been two years now and customers still ask the question:Why should I use ePublisher Express?Why can’t I just stick with ePublisher Pro?ePublisher Express was the result of a focused effort by the WebWorks.com Marketing group working in […]
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What hasn't changed
When WebWorks.com created the classic WebWorks Publisher product for FrameMaker back in 1994, we wound up doing two things.1. Created the standard for single-sourcing web deliverables with FrameMaker.2. Defined authoring guidelines for users to control Help behaviors from their source documents.When ePublisher was launched in 2005, our goal was to replace our custom code base […]
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Blogs and Agile
I’m glad we are getting some recognition for our blogging efforts, which leads me to a few thoughts for the end of August.So now it seems that even Marketing has gone “Agile”. I think having a blog as a company marketing mechanism is very agile and is big change from traditional marketing techniques that require […]
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Screen Capture Programs
At a recent WebWorks.com Open House, a discussion about good tools for capturing computer screens came up and I recalled that I had actually done quite a bit of research and experimentation with these types of tools. I also had put together a short write-up on my company’s internal wiki about the topic. Now I […]
