Technical Writing Blog

It is quite clear to everyone that the actual first impression you make on your employer is not at a job interview. Your CV is your first impression. So, take your mind off the articles enumerating the tie colors that will help you get the job. There will be the right moment for this, but…

A clear and flexible review process is a highly demanded feature for a help authoring tool. This comes as no surprise as reviewing directly influences the quality of documentation. Which, in its turn, affects a company’s credibility. In this post, we will talk about best practices in reviewing technical documentation and take a closer look…

We are the ClickHelp company, and we create products for technical writers. Our main product is, of course, ClickHelp – a flexible tool for creating online technical documentation. But, we do not like to limit ourselves. Alongside our main product, we have been developing our website. We always wanted to create a website that would…

Our entire blog is dedicated to technical communication and everything around it. Technical communication is a broader term, and it includes technical writing. For most people, technical writing is something a documentation team does, whatever this is. Let’s try to clarify this term a little. So, next time you need to explain to someone what…

What is a readability score? It is a score you get based on a set of algorithms used to figure out how readable a text is. Of course, everyone who creates content wants it to be easy to read. This is especially true for technical writers, their job is to create solid comprehensive content. Although…

Are you searching for a help authoring tool but don’t know what to choose? Have a look at the following infographic post that clearly shows what features you will get and how your business process will improve by using ClickHelp technical writing tool. Good Luck with your technical writing! ClickHelp Team Author, host and deliver…

Help authoring tools are programs for technical writers that allow to design, publish and maintain software documentation. The resulting text isn’t only README files, but manuals and guides that help users to interact with tools/devices effectively. So technical writers should use the best Help Authoring Tool (HAT) Software in order to develop useful documentation. Quality…

In this blog, we’ve mentioned a couple of times that a lot of people out there don’t have any idea of what technical writers do. Let’s be honest, documentation teams can be underappreciated and even underpaid. Of course, the whole community of technical communicators is doing its best to let the world know about their…

You know what’s special about the ClickHelp team? Unlike many other vendors, we don’t believe in trials with restricted functionality. We want to help technical writers find a perfect tool for documentation writing, so, our rules are simple — if you never try, you’ll never know. This is why we provide a 30-day free unlimited…

If you would like to take up a career in the technical writing field, you should be mindful of the specifics of this job. All technical writers are different, that goes without saying. And, still, there are common personal characteristics most of them share. Keep reading to learn more and to figure out where you…