Posts Tagged ‘xml’

Successful Business Blogging: Know your audience

Friday, November 18th, 2005

This is the last part of a 6-part series on Successful Business Blogging.
To keep your readers, you must be useful to them.  But, how do you know what resonates with them?  What are they clicking?  What topics are most popular?
Scrutinize:
1.  Your analyticsKnowing just what they are doing can help you know what works and what [...]

Flare and Vista

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Flare, a XML authoring/editing tool by MadCap Software, was one of a few products that were highlighted during recent Microsoft events, .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.  The interesting part about this is how it might integrate into Vista, the next version of Windows.  It’s already slated to output help files in Vista’s format.
Flare allows users to:

write [...]

The RSS Standard and Your Users

Monday, October 24th, 2005

Doubtless you’ve see or heard the animated discussion online regrading Microsoft and others considering changing the RSS button. 
Why does the RSS button matter so much?
Maybe it doesn’t, but what happens when you push the button does.  If your users can’t figure out what to do with the XML file or page that’s shown when [...]