TechTotal Blog

Tech­ni­cal writ­ing has been around since the first tech­ni­cal writer, Cro-Magnon man, was draw­ing on cave walls. How­ever, most experts would agree that the golden age of tech­ni­cal writ­ing started with the inven­tion of the com­puter.
Here are some of the major mile­stones in tech­ni­cal writ­ing his­tory over the past 60 years.
1949: Joseph D. Chap­line wrote a […]

Course Descrip­tion
The Dar­win Infor­ma­tion Typ­ing Archi­tec­ture (DITA) is an end-to-end, XML-based archi­tec­ture for author­ing, man­ag­ing, and pub­lish­ing your organization’s tech­ni­cal con­tent. DITA was designed to meet the evolv­ing needs of orga­ni­za­tions in the face of today’s busi­ness require­ments — for man­ag­ing and pub­lish­ing con­tent for mul­ti­ple prod­ucts, mul­ti­ple audi­ences, and mul­ti­ple out­put for­mats… Larger organizations […]