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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
- Dealing with cursed projects
- Everyone loves to gripe about a cursed project, but what can be done to rescue it? Learn more about rescuing problem projects from the scrap heap.Developers can drive themselves crazy fretting over a past project disaster. It's easy to wallow in failure, but spending too long obsessing over problems can...
- Tags: Team management, William T. Kelly, team, team member, project plan
- Technical articles 2002-12-23
- 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
- How to analyze competition for in-house development
- Software development for internal customers requires studying--and understanding--the politics, priorities, and competition unique to internal development projects.If your development team develops in-house software projects inside a large corporation, you already know that competition and office politics make internal development a tricky business. If you overlook the competitive landscape of your...
- Tags: Quality, William T. Kelly, internal customer, internal application, standards
- Technical articles 2002-12-11
- Proceed with caution when assigning additional project managers
- When development projects run into issues, it is often the first instinct to bring in additional project managers. Here are six tips you can use to make sure that strategy helps more than it hurts.Putting multiple project managers on a project is often seen as a solution on development projects...
- Tags: Team management, Strategy, William T. Kelly, team, developer
- Technical articles 2002-12-10
- 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
- Product road maps drive internal development projects
- Product road maps are often used with software projects developed for external customers but neglected on in-house projects. These tips can help you build a product road map to drive internal projects as well.Product plans, or road maps, are typically the work of a product manager leading the development of...
- Tags: Strategy, William T. Kelly, product road map, Product Road Map, development project
- Technical articles 2002-11-27
- RoboHelp Office X3 is worth a look
- A Builder.com member offers this review of the latest version of the popular RoboHelp package for authoring help documentation.The economics of online vs. print documentation make online help and Web-based documentation economical methods of producing and distributing technical documentation. The task has become even more nimble with the release of...
- Tags: William T. Kelly, RoboHELP, WebHelp Enterprise, online help, JavaHelp, RoboHelp Office X3
- Technical articles 2002-11-19
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Working with contract tech writers for documentation needs
- Documentation is a key to success for many IT projects, but budgeting for the effort and hiring resources can be challenging. Use these tips as a guideline when hiring technical writers to handle the job.While technical documentation can be expensive, poorly done documentation can be even more costly and could...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Taxes, Sales force management, Recruitment & Selection, William T. Kelly, technical documentation, technical writer
- Technical articles 2002-10-29
- Update your product development process to focus resources and maximize efforts
- A product development process should add value, but your existing process could actually be hindering your developers and costing you money. See how revising your process can help focus your resources and efforts.Product development processes add value to development efforts, but they can also reduce value. A useful process won’t...
- Tags: Product marketing, Strategy, William T. Kelly, product development, product development process, project management
- Technical articles 2002-10-22
- Tech staff can help build business alliances
- Your development team can play an important role in helping management develop business and technical alliances. Learn how building alliances helps improve your company's products and prospects.Your development team can play an important role in helping management and sales build business alliances to open up beneficial avenues for new sales...
- Tags: Strategy, William T. Kelly, alliance
- Technical articles 2002-10-09
- Tips for managing the technical documentation tech review
- Providing accurate and up-to-date product documentation is important to both internal and external customers. Here's what you need to know to improve the technical accuracy of the documentation produced by your development team.The accuracy of your organization’s technical documentation benefits your company and customers by offering a credible resource for...
- Tags: William T. Kelly, technical writer, technical accuracy, technical review
- Technical articles 2002-10-08
- 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
- Client management skills help on-site contractors succeed
- Onsite contractors need good client management skills even if they're not directly responsible for managing the client. Effectively managing client expectations helps projects succeed and burnishes the contractor's reputation.Who’s responsible for managing the client when a contract agency places an on-site contract IT employee? It’s a difficult balance that depends...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, William T. Kelly, agency, client management skill
- Technical articles 2002-09-27
