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Documenting APIs mini-conference: Video recordings available!
The video recordings of the lectures held on the Documenting APIs mini-conference are now available on our dedicated event page.
On March 4, 2016 we helped organise a special whole-day meetup in London on the Write The Docs conference, in which the community discussed the tools and processes used to document APIs.
by 10 years 4 months ago
How to recognise accessible PDFs - PDF in Drupal part 3
As an addition to our PDF in Drupal series, we researched the subject of accessible PDFs: how can writers create content in a way that it becomes accessible to users with disabilities? In this post, we’ll highlight checking mechanisms and tools and end with listing three types of the available assistive technologies that make content accessible.
by 10 years 4 months ago
Drupal 8 as a help center: embed documentation with the WalkHub Help Widget
Even though it has become much easier to create embedded help experiences, many software products still do very little to integrate their help content into their application. In this post we will explain why embedded help leads to better experiences, why we built our Help Widget, and give you an overview of its architecture.
Building Landing Pages faster
At Pronovix, we use the paragraphs module almost every day to create new web pages. We continuously evaluate and improve our landing page creation process: we were already able to shorten the feedback process and reduce the number of editing rounds before publishing.
Categories: UX & Research
Two-way sync between Drupal and Google Contacts using PieSync
Most SaaS integration services that synchronise user accounts, do a one-way sync that copies over to new accounts. PieSync has developed a powerful two-way sync platform, with various sync settings, so you can sync contact information between your favorite cloud apps. We’ve been talking with Piesync about creating a module to sync user profiles between Drupal and Google Contacts, your CRM and other cloud apps.
by 10 years 5 months ago
An overview of context-sensitive and embedded help formats
When we tried to learn more about the different types of contextual and embedded help, we found that the definitions, solutions and use cases were scattered and ambiguous. This post is an attempt at collecting and presenting the information from our research in an easier to understand format, so that you can get an overview of your options before you decide on an implementation.