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The fine art of documentation
Issue: 2.4 (March/April 2004)
Author: Toby Rush
Author Bio: Toby Rush is a music instructor, consultant, freelance programmer, web designer, husband, and dad in Greeley, Colorado.
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Starting Page Number: 44
Article Number: 2422
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If you're a programmer for some megacorporation, chances are you don't have to worry much about writing User Manuals for your software; that's the job of the technical writers. The rest of us know that writing the documentation is one of the approximately 20,000 steps between finishing the programming and releasing the software to the masses.
But it's an important step... one that can make the difference between a successful program or a flop. Over the next few articles, we'll discuss various aspects of providing help for users of your software: building a user-friendly interface, designing contextual help, and writing the user manual.
The Helpful Interface
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