Interesting to visualize how many tags and what types of tags are used on any web site While reading some Austin-based blogs I found “Websites as graphs,” a Java applet that reads all the tags used in a website and colorcodes and graphs them showing the relationships and nesting. The result is similar to organic […]
Defining OPML and relating to DITA maps
I found a nice definition for OPML from whatis.com as their word of the day, and I’m starting to wonder about similarities between OPML and DITA maps From an information design perspective, OPML is a great format for outlining information, showing information’s hierarchical structure and relationship to other entries. I had only really thought about […]
MS-DOS tips for time and date stamps
How to make zip files and folders with a formatted date and time stamp as the folder name in a DOS batch file automatically We have a help rendition system internally, where all we writers do is create the source files needed to make CHM files (HHK, HHC, HHP, HTML), zip up the HTML source […]