Recommended Reading
Creating User-Friendly Online Help
by Petra Thiemann and David Krings
A great overview for working with MadCap Flare including many tips and best practices.
Five Steps to MadCap Flare
by Lorraine Kupka and Joy Underhill
Great for readers fresh to using a tool like Flare.
HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)
by Elizabeth Castro
A good overview of the technologies that are the foundation beneath Flare.
It also features a great Visual QuickStart series.
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CSS To The Point
by Scott DeLoach
Focuses on Cascading Style Sheets which is core to getting the most out of Flare publishing.
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Technical Writing 101: A Real-World Guide to Planning and Writing Technical Documentation
by Alan S. Pringle and Sarah O'Keefe
Useful to polish up your general authoring skills.
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Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web (3rd Edition)
by Hakon Wium Lie and Bert Bos
The more that you work with Flare the more you will come to realize that
Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, have huge amounts of power and control in just how your content is
formatted and presented. Learning as much as you can about CSS will pay dividends. This a great CSS book
from the actual creators of the CSS specification.
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DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web, Third Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)
by Jason Teague
If you want to go beyond the built in capabilities and want to explore some of the
advanced possibilities available with some custom hand scripting, this is a good place to start.
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MadCap Flare Certified Test Review + Developer's Guide
by Scott DeLoach
If you want to go on to be recognized as a Flare master then Scott DeLoach has a
preparation guide for those who want to become Flare certified.
Buy Here >
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