MadCap Flare Introductory Training
Course Recording
Led by Certified MadCap Flare Instructors Mike Hamilton, VP of Customer Success, and Jennifer Morse, VP of Customer Success, this online training course covers a variety of topics including getting started with Flare, importing content, creating and editing content, publishing your output, and more.
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Module 1 and 2: Course Overview and
Getting Started
presented by:
Jennifer Morse, VP of Customer Success | MadCap Software, Inc.
What’s Covered in This Video
Course Overview
- Welcome
- Target Audience
- Course Overview
Getting Started with Flare
- What Is Flare?
- A Tour of the Flare Interface
- What is a Project?
- Opening a Project
Module 3 and 4: Adding and Importing Content
presented by:
Mike Hamilton, VP of Product Evangelism | MadCap Software, Inc.
What’s Covered in This Video
Adding Content
- About Topics
- Creating a Topic
- Changing a Topic
- Creating a Bulleted List
- Creating a Numbered List
- Inserting an Image
- Inserting a Video
- Adding a Table
- Previewing a Topic
- Finding and Replacing Text
- Spell Checking
Importing Content
- About Importing Files
- Importing an HTML File
- Importing a Word Document
- Importing a FrameMaker® Document
Module 5: Linking Content
presented by:
Jennifer Morse, VP of Customer Success | MadCap Software, Inc.
What’s Covered in This Video
Linking Content
- About Links
- Creating a TOC Book or Page
- Creating a Cross Reference
- Creating a Hyperlink
- Creating a Drop-down link
Module 6: Designing Content
presented by:
Mike Hamilton, VP of Product Evangelism | MadCap Software, Inc.
What’s Covered in This Video
Designing Content
- About Design
- Applying a Stylesheet to All Topics
- Applying a Style
- Applying a Table Stylesheet to a Table
- Adding Content to a Header or Footer in a Page Layout
- Applying a Page Layout to a Target
- Adding Content to a Template Page
- Applying a Template Page to a Target
- Changing a Skin
- Applying a Skin to a Target
Module 7: Single Sourcing Content
presented by:
Jennifer Morse, VP of Customer Success | MadCap Software, Inc.
What’s Covered in This Video
Single Sourcing
- About Single Sourcing
- Creating a Variable
- Inserting a Variable
- Creating a Snippet
- Inserting a Snippet
- Creating a Condition Tag
- Applying a Condition Tag to a File or Folder
- Applying a Condition Tag to Content
Module 8 and 9: Sending Topics for Review and Building Targets
presented by:
Jennifer Morse, VP of Customer Success | MadCap Software, Inc.
What’s Covered in This Video
Sending Topics for Review
- About Topic Reviews using MadCap Contributor or MadCap Central
- Sending a Topic for Review
- Accepting and Rejecting Review Comments
- Receiving a Reviewed Topic
Targets
- About Targets
- Setting Up an HTML5 Target
- Building an HTML5 Target
- Setting Up a PDF Target
- Building a PDF Target
Meet the Instructors
about the presenter
Mike Hamilton
VP of Product Evangelism | Madcap Software, Inc.
Mike Hamilton is the VP of Product Evangelism and one of the founding members of the MadCap Software team. With over twenty years of experience in training, technical communication, multimedia development, and software development, he has worked with organizations such as Cymer, National Steel & Shipbuilding, and the US Navy. He is a frequent speaker at industry events such as STC Summit, LavaCon and more, and is commonly quoted in technology articles in various trade publications.
Mike Hamilton is the VP of Product Evangelism and one of the founding members of the MadCap Software team. With over twenty years of experience in training, technical communication, multimedia development, and software development, he has worked with organizations such as Cymer, National Steel & Shipbuilding, and the US Navy. He is a frequent speaker at industry events such as STC Summit, LavaCon and more, and is commonly quoted in technology articles in various trade publications.
about the presenter
Jennifer Morse
Director of Customer Success | Madcap Software, Inc.
As Vice President of Customer Success at MadCap Software, Jennifer has over 20 years of software sales experience in the technical communication and content development industry. In addition to overseeing the Customer Success and Sales Engineering team, her focus is to promote customer onboarding, promote the value of the company’s solutions to the marketplace, solicit customer feedback, and report on trends in the industry that can help improve the company’s offerings. Since joining the company in 2006, and prior to moving into the role of Customer Success, Jennifer played an integral role in managing company’s growing sales organization, by increasing market share in the United States, and the expansion into overseas markets, including Europe, the Middle East and India.
As Vice President of Customer Success at MadCap Software, Jennifer has over 20 years of software sales experience in the technical communication and content development industry. In addition to overseeing the Customer Success and Sales Engineering team, her focus is to promote customer onboarding, promote the value of the company’s solutions to the marketplace, solicit customer feedback, and report on trends in the industry that can help improve the company’s offerings. Since joining the company in 2006, and prior to moving into the role of Customer Success, Jennifer played an integral role in managing company’s growing sales organization, by increasing market share in the United States, and the expansion into overseas markets, including Europe, the Middle East and India.
