Re: Writer? Designer? Writer/Designer?
My question is this: how many of you are expected to take a project from A to Z (writing through desiging to available on line)
<raises hand>
Me.
and how many of you have other departments that do the design stuff?
<snork>
For most of my clients, and all my former fulltime employers, design departments are a luxury and got laid off long before their techwriters. In the last 17 years, I've had exactly 1 project where the client had a designer on staff.
For those of you who do it all, do you have real specific standards you need to follow?
Usually. In fact, if the client doesn't already have standards in place, part of my task is usually to create a set of standards that their staff can use for updates. And, yes, I am expected to follow the standards wherever they come from. I can recommend changes to the standards, but I'm expected to follow the old ones until my recommendations are approved, even if the old standards are impossible to accomplish with the tool they specify in the contract or with the system software on the client's new server.
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K@ Kat Nagel,
currently negotiating a change in standards before I bid on an HTML-based Help project that specifies large graphics-intensive Help screens and a bunch of Windows-specific server functions (copied verbatim from an old RFP, I think) when the client's new PDA-based application will run on a PalmOS device. The client manager doesn't understand why this could be a problem. The thunking sound you hear is my head beating against a brick wall.
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