Links on Book Sprints

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Download the FLOSS manual on Book Sprints

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Word!

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More Quick Reference Guides/Cheat Sheets

More lists: WPTavern’s List Of WordPress Cheat Sheets

30 Handy Cheat Sheets and Reference Guides for Web Professionals

And, Quick Ref Guides in the form of iphone apps for web designers

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Visual Trend: Quick Reference Guides

Some links on quick visual guides:

Overview pieces by Tom Johnson Quick Reference Guides: Short and Sweet Documentation and Quick Reference Guides.

On WordPress 14 Essential WordPress Development and Design Cheat Sheets

And, last, not on software but on drawing 75 Ways to Draw More by Michael Nobbs via Moleskinerie.

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Cool Posters about Design via whatconsumesme.com

Fun to sort into what their messages really are.

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Video Trends in Technical Communications

Help works well when it is seen as answering real questions. Users look for solutions to those concrete problems they encounter using software.

Answers can be shown visually as well as verbally. (Pet peeve: “verbally” means with “words” and does not mean the same as “orally.”) The technical communicator can do this with videos, quick start guides, screencasts, or infographics. ( Apparently, tech writers do infographics better than copywriters )

When WordPress.org released its latest installation, 2.8 or Baker, on June 19, it also put out a video. This video answers an implicit question, “How does this version provide a cooler, smoother ride, like the music of Chet Baker sounds?” Quick reply: with an automatic theme installer, code highlighting PHP editor, and widget and interface improvements in the administration panel. It is an aural as well as visual answer and it hits its point in a nifty video package.

More on video’s potential as help:

Video, documentation, and you

Interactive YouTube videos

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Test

Seeing if this posts from the iPhone…

Yes, it does…

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8/17 Matt H. at the genius bar at WordCamp solved my Sidebars problem. I’m learning more PHP by doing this.

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Nothing is working for creating different Sidebar sets for different page templates. One of the key obstacles seems to be that there are no other Sidebars to toggle to on the upper right of the Widgets page.

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