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When can I say “janky” in my on-screen text?

In the on-screen text in WordPress, on the Write > Page screen, I ran across the following help text. Just yesterday my colleague Ben was asking how I felt about the use of contractions in help. Contractions? We’ve moved far beyond contractions. We’re now using terms like janky. How I would love to publicly insult the applications [...]

WordPress Training This Saturday 9 am to Noon

WordPress Training Course Date: Saturday, July 19 Time: 9 am to noon MST Cost: $99 If you’re interested in WordPress training, I’m holding a course this Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon MST over the web. Click the WordPress Training button on my navigation bar for details about what’s covered and the cost. Speaking of WordPress, here’s a great post [...]

WordPress Image Galleries — Give Your Photo Galleries a Lightbox/Slideshowesque Display

A WordPress image gallery allows you to create a sharp-looking presentation for your photos or images. With just a couple of plugins and tweaks and some basic understanding of the WordPress gallery tag, you can make a Lightbox/Slideshowesque display of your gallery images without any custom coding. Here’s an example of a WordPress gallery that goes [...]

Woopra — Enough Live Site Stats to Write a Dissertation

Woopra is a new website analytics tracking tool that gives you enough live stats to write a dissertation. It takes analytics tracking a step further than Google Analytics and allows you to see a live map of visitors on your site — what they’re reading, what paths they’ve taken, what country they’re from, how long [...]

Quick Reference Guides: The Poetry of Technical Writing

How many times have you written a 75+ page guide and heard the customer say, This is great, but can you give us a condensed version? After the third or fourth time I’d heard this, I decided to actually try it. I wasn’t sure exactly how to lay it out, so I spent a couple of [...]

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Job Title:: Technical Writer

Company Name:: Authoria, Inc.

About Me:: I'm a technical communicator currently working in Waltham, Mass., USA. Professionally, I'm on the verge of junior - mid-level, having worked 3 years in the field. Previously I was a speculative fiction writer, and before that an electronic technician in the secuity electronics industry.

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At 12:58am on May 15th, 2008, Regina Morrisey said…: Greetings, Mark
I've been traveling for a couple of weeks (up north) and am about to fly to LA. Good to see your site here. I'll be getting back to business soon.

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