Technical Communication Resources - Tools

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• Authors Compensation Survey!
  Find out what writers really earn?
  This brand new survey is designed to give writing professionals more information about what their peers are earning for different types of work at different levels of experience.
• FrameUsers.com
  The Online User Group and Reference Site for Adobe FrameMaker.


• Adobe
  Lords of the desktop publishing domain. Visit their product pages for FrameMaker, PageMaker, and Acrobat.


• AuthorIT
  AuthorIT is a true single source tool. Whether you are an individual author or a large corporation AuthorIT is the only Documentation tool you will ever need.


• Barebones
  BBEdit is Macintosh software for web design and development.


• Blue Sky
  Blue Sky Software makes RoboHELP, popular Windows Help authoring tool.


• DocToHelp
  Another well-known Help authoring tool.


• HTML Indexer
  Check out HTML Indexer, created by Brown Inc (owner, David Brown, is a member of WVC). This tools allows the creation and maintenance of real back-of-the-book indexes for web sites and other HTML documents.


• W3Schools.com
  This site offers Web building design and development tips, in addition to online tutorials on how to write:

- HTML, XML, XHTML, CSS
- programming: VBScript, JavaScript, ASP
- database programming