To be honest, I’ve been having a hard time with my Capstone project (I think most people have). I’ve only completed a little more than the first chapter (of 3 or possibly 4) of content, but I have my page design set up, and I have become a lot more familiar with the interface and the tools. I know that this will make drafting the rest of my content easier. Illustrator has SO many tools, it’s been hard to figure out what I should include. I thought it best to list all of the tools so that my readers could have an idea of what else they could learn, beyond what I covered in my guide. This alone was a much more tedious project than I planned. This is because I wanted to include an image of the icon for each tool. I wanted to make sure each image was the same size, and had the same format (stroke, alignment with text, etc.) This took a pretty big chunk of time, but I’m happy I did it because the process forced me to learn about tools I otherwise would have avoided or ignored. I’ve attached a sample module so that you can get a look at my page design.Module
First FM Module Draft in Progress
Here’s a link to the PDF of my first FM Module in progress:CharTags. I’ll have the completed draft of this module up by tomorrow night. I just wanted to make sure I’m saving and posting PDFs right.
Here’s an updated draft: CharTags, Updated. I’m a little confused about why FrameMaker is formatting my pages that way when I insert images, but since my group has decided to make all of our modules 2 page spreads anyways, this should be something I can fix later.
FM Ch. 3
A Paragraph Tag for Sideheads
Bulleted List Tags and A Note Paragraph Tag
A New Heading Paragraph Tag
I seem to be having some issues uploading PDFs. Let’s see if this works.
FM Exercise 2
Here is the second assignment. Enjoy.
Edit: Having some technical difficulties here. Have this up soon.
FrameMaker Chapter 1
Hi All,
Here is the PDF of my exercise from Chapter 1 of Underwood.
RoboHelp Assignment
Here’s the link to RoboHelp Assignment on How to Bathe a Cat.
Progress Report 1
My Capstone Project is going pretty well. Here’s my working Table of Contents. This is still changing as I learn more about Illustrator and make decisions about what is important and what order things should go in. I am also feeling that it is important to include a lot of screen captures, so my modules are coming out to be longer than I planned. A few of the modules I have completed are the Selection Tool modules and the Brush Tool modules.
Unlike other documentation I have made, I am trying to include Workspace Overview in the beginning, and an Index, Glossary, and list of common keyboard commands that work across Adobe programs in the appendix of this manual.
Besides drafting content I have been spending a lot of time on the Adobe website watching their video tutorials and taking notes.
PWTC Manual Module Draft
I’m not sure why this two page spread uploaded like this, but the right half of this PDF is the draft of a module for my PWTC Manual made in InDesign. PWTCmanual
Valentine’s Day
PWTC Manual Module in InDesign
Today I played around with my module for the PWTC Handbook in InDesign. This is what I came up with: PWTC Courses Module.
I got inspiration for this design from Richard T. Schaefer’s 7th edition textbook: Sociology, A Brief Introduction. It’s really a beautiful text book. Here’s a link it on Amazon.