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- Oversee Web site editing with Macromedia Contribute 2
- Web site maintenance tasks often fall through the cracks due to tight schedules and limited resources. One way to stay on top of the maintenance chores is to roll out Macromedia Contribute 2 to your internal customers and let them shoulder some of the responsibility. The tool enables users without...
- Tags: Channel management, Web site development, William T. Kelly, dialog box, Contribute 2, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Web, Macromedia Inc., Macromedia Contribute 2, Manage Sites, Web site
- Technical articles 2003-10-28
- Bloki makes it easier to build project Web sites
- Bloki is a new hosted Web site development tool offering Web blog features and a Wiki. It offers a collaborative platform for disparate project teams that want a central repository for intrateam documentation and communications. Bloki authoring can be distributed across a project team, because no HTML or other coding...
- Tags: Channel management, Web site, William T. Kelly, Bloki, Web
- Technical articles 2003-08-18
- Implement OpinionLab "O" to track Web site visitor feedback
- Tracking Web site visitor feedback and analyzing trends has become especially crucial, as the Web often serves as the first level of customer contact and support in many industries. Building this type of system from scratch is a daunting task, but thankfully, many off-the-shelf products are available today. One such...
- Tags: Web servers, Channel management, William T. Kelly, activate26.html, readme.html, onlineopinion.j, o_ief.html, include.txt, Web site, Include.txt, OnlineOpinion Comment Card, Web, OpinionLab licensing agreement, Web server, server
- Technical articles 2003-08-01
- Strategies when hiring a technical writer
- What do technical writers, doctors, lawyers, auto mechanics, and IRS agents have in common? You've probably had a bad experience with a member of this group. Unfortunately, this bad joke is based on the harsh reality that many IT managers have had difficulty hiring and working with technical writers, making...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, William T. Kelly, hiring, strategy, technical writer
- Technical articles 2003-07-14
- Read Adobe Acrobat PDFs on your PDA
- Adobe Acrobat PDFs have become a standard format for so many documents—including product documentation, white papers, and newsletters—that many IT departments have made the Adobe Acrobat Reader part of their standard client image. While this is fine for desktop users, what about users on the go? Luckily, Adobe offers a...
- Tags: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe PDF, Adobe Systems Inc., dialog box, Figure B, operating system, Palm Inc., Palm OS, PDA, William T. Kelly
- Technical articles 2003-07-10
- ProjectPix add-in displays Project data through Visio
- Gantt charts and other Microsoft Project output can be intimidating to many people who are not familiar with reading these types of charts. The problem may be increasing because Visio is being installed more frequently on corporate desktops. Project, on the other hand, is often restricted to managers and project...
- Tags: Project management, William T. Kelly, Responsibility Assignment Matrix, work breakdown structure, Microsoft Visio, Visimation ProjectPix, WBS Chart
- Technical articles 2003-06-23
- Download this template to quickly create a product or system security plan
- Information security plans have become an important part of infrastructure planning and management as enterprise IT pros confront an increasing number of security threats and vulnerabilities. Developing a security strategy to support a new product or system can help you identify threats and take steps to lock down your product...
- Tags: William T. Kelly, security plan, security, team
- Technical articles 2003-06-25
- RoboDemo: Flexible e-learning and online product demos
- If your project requirements call for e-learning content, or your marketing group is clamoring for online demonstrations of your latest product, product demonstration software can help. Because these presentations are typically delivered in a variety of formats—internal company portals, partner extranets, and Web casts—you'll want software that has a range...
- Tags: Operating systems, William T. Kelly, RoboDemo 3.0, e-learning, RoboDemo
- Technical articles 2003-06-27
- How to manage the relationship between development and creative teams
- Large-scale Web development projects require a close working relationship between the development team and the creative team to ensure a product that meets customer requirements.It's easy to dismiss the relationship between development and creative as a longstanding battle that will never be resolved. However, these distinct teams provide the two...
- Tags: Team management, William T. Kelly, creative team, team, development team, Web site
- Technical articles 2003-07-02
- Document your database project to capture relevant info
- Documenting a database during its development is a best practice to ensure that the organizational schema, data objects, and other related information are captured for future reference.This documentation often takes many forms including data dictionary, database administrator guides, database architecture documentation, and database functional specifications. In this article, I'll use...
- Tags: Storage, Databases, Database documentation, William T. Kelly, database, database documentation, data dictionary
- Technical articles 2003-05-16
- Easily convert Visio project timelines to Project
- Creating a Visio project timeline is a popular method for pulling project scheduling information into Microsoft Office documents. The resulting diagrams are accessible to a wider range of viewers, including executives, stakeholders, and project team members. Moving the presentation of your project data to Visio allows you to pull the...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Office, William T. Kelly, Microsoft Visio, wizard
- Technical articles 2003-05-21
- eWebEditPro 3.0+XML: Easy XML editing from a GUI
- eWebEditPro 3.0+XML from Ektron is a Web-based HTML and XML authoring tool. Web-based authoring tools work on a different model than client-based Web authoring tools. Users access a Web-based authoring tool via their Web browser, with no need to install a client application. The eWebEditPro tool works in conjunction with...
- Tags: Content management, Channel management, PRODUCTIVITY, William T. Kelly, GUI, Ektron Inc., eWebEditPro 3.0+XML, Web, content management system, XML, Ektron eWebEdit Pro 3.0+XML, tool
- Technical articles 2003-05-20
- Easily develop work breakdown structure charts with Project and Visio
- Microsoft Project 2002 and Visio Professional 2002 are two common tools found on the corporate desktop, but you may have overlooked the opportunities for integrating the two. Project is best known as a project management tool, whereas Visio has users in both the technical and business sides of a company...
- Tags: Project management, Microsoft Project, Visio WBS Chart Wizard, Visio 2002, work breakdown structure, William T. Kelly, Microsoft Visio, WBS Chart, Project 2002
- Technical articles 2003-04-28
- Office 2003: Is it time for your project team to upgrade?
- Microsoft Office forms the communication backbone for many project teams by facilitating the sharing of e-mail and the creation of project documentation such as requirements documents, functional specifications, status reports, and presentations. While your organization may still be running Microsoft Office 2000 without issues, you may also be coming to...
- Tags: Team management, Groupware, William T. Kelly, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2003, team
- Technical articles 2003-04-23
- Adjust your documentation plan for .NET
- As your development team moves to Microsoft .NET-based projects, your documentation efforts for both your end users and developers should follow. Your current documentation plan is a start, but the introduction of .NET means your technical writers and documentation development efforts must be adjusted.Typically, a documentation plan is like a...
- Tags: .NET, Application servers, Middleware, William T. Kelly, DocumentationPlan.NET, Microsoft .NET, documentation plan, online help, Microsoft Corp.
- Technical articles 2003-04-16
- Building a project Web site the easy way
- Building a centralized project Web site, a key tool you can use to support a development effort, doesn’t require a Web designer or a big budget. This article explores how you can quickly and efficiently build an intranet or extranet Web site to support your development projects.Benefits of a central...
- Tags: Web site development, Channel management, Web technology, user interface, William T. Kelly, Web, Web site
- Technical articles 2003-03-12
- Tips for documenting an XML DTD
- XML-based development projects often require the development of a Document Type Definition DTD, which defines the XML code used in an XML document or application.Even if you are customizing an existing DTD like the DocBook DTD, documenting the DTD is a best practice for a number of reasons, including:Providing documentation...
- Tags: DTD, William T. Kelly, Document Type Definition, XML, XML DTD, technical writer
- Technical articles 2003-02-19
- SharePoint keeps project teams connected
- This article originally appeared on Builder.com.The Microsoft SharePoint Team Services Web tool enables project managers to build project Web sites to support the project team. Through SharePoint, project teams can do the following:Post announcements about important project issues and newsPost notifications about important project events such as team meetings, code...
- Tags: Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft SharePoint Team Services, team, William T. Kelly
- Technical articles 2003-02-07
- Look outside the IT industry for applicable management solutions
- After spending most of your adult life and working career in the technology industry, it can be easy to forget that there are other industries out there from which we can learn to benefit our own projects and companies. While IT operations of varying scales are typical within companies, there...
- Tags: management solution, William T. Kelly
- Technical articles 2003-01-29
- Macromedia Contribute: Eases site updates for staff and reduces developer admin
- Web developers and designers can be pulled in many directions, often spending too much time on site maintenance and too little time on design and development. The proprietary nature of site maintenance makes it risky to assign site maintenance to less technical staff members.Macromedia has taken aim at this problem...
- Tags: Channel management, William T. Kelly, Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Inc., Web
- Technical articles 2003-02-03
