I've started to use Author-it Xtend and I'm very impressed. It's very clever and very useful. Even though I'm using it as a lone writer, I can see the value of it for a team of writers, or a company that has a core team of writers with occasional contributors from outside the documentation team. More
This week I'm attending the Australasian Online Documentation and Content Conference (AODC) on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. Today's first session was a short talk by Matt Armstrong about something called "authoring memory". Have you ever heard of that? I hadn't. More
The term "content management" gets bandied around a lot these days, but I suspect that a lot of people who use it don't really know what it means More
Author-it releases update for version 5.0 More
Paul Trotter, CEO of Author-it Software Corp., is a man who knows what he is talking about. If you don't believe me, just take a look at his bank balance More
Discussing Autotext entries in Author-it More
Discussing XML in Author-it More
Well, I'm hoping to start migrating some content from Structured FrameMaker to AuthorIT, having decided that the overheads required to get DITA up and running just don't stack up against the cost of ownership of AuthorIT. I'm a big fan of the principles behind DITA, and I will keep up-to-speed with progress, but it doesn't suit our needs here More
New Zealand company and CeBIT 2008 exhibitor Author-it Software Corporation, a world leader in software for authoring, content management, and publishing, was recently named in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific for the second year in a row. Out of the 500 companies, only Author-it and 15 other organisations return to the Fast 500 list from previous years More
What does single sourced content mean to readers? More
On my personal blog a month ago I mentioned that I'd been learning more about SQL than I wanted to as a result of upgrading to Author-it v5. One of my readers asked could you explain what's up with the SQL work, and when and why it's needed with AIT? More
One thing is clear: DITA isn't a magic bullet for single sourcing documentation. It still has several weaknesses More
Rhonda details how to create image maps in Author-it 5.0 More
When Author-it Software Corporation (ASC) released Author-it 5.0 at the end of September, it also released Author-it Xtend, patent-pending technology that is a first in the Help authoring world. They review some of the new features of Author-it Xtend.More
Mathur points out the advantages of Author-it (AIT) over FrameMaker (FM) including, Author-it is a complete documentation tool that can be used by all the members in a company at the same time. This means that all the source files that every person in the company is working on are at the same location More
Our team is so excited for the new Author-it version 5.0 that we invited other Austin techpubs teams over to our office to watch the US & Canada webinar. It was like a movie premiere. Okay, we're not really that big of dorks. But we had a good time with it.A discussion on some of the new features. More