Technical Documentation Design

Professional page layout and design are constructed to maintain a consistent look and feel through the document or series of documents. Templates help the author focus on the information and provide readers with reasonable expectations for a document’s organization and content. Let our technical documenation design expertise build your next technical manual.

Template Design

We support template design for documentation in FrameMaker, InDesign, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word. Web based templates are designed in Dreamweaver, Joomla, and straight HTML and CSS.

Template design includes company logo, colors definitions, and a page layout design that complements the company’s image and content. Other design features include fonts, headers and footers, table of contents, and cover design. Benefits of a well designed template include:

• Changes to the overall design of the content are quick
• Productivity increases by reducing your time formatting content
• Creates a consistent formal look among your library of documents

Typographical conventions (special formats) are designed and applied to text to indicate specific meaning. Conventions may include font family, weight, size, and color. Other conventions are special notices that include a warning or notice for caution. This type of text is usually set off from the rest of the text, similar to a block quotation such as tips, notes, and important notices. They provide brief, but useful information to the reader that is not covered in the main body text. These notices are chiefly designed to get the reader’s attention while reading the main content.

Template Applications

Templates can be used for applications such as training manuals, user manuals, quick start guides, newsletters, and websites. Templates are designed with your audience in mind. You can use a modern design for technical manuals or go with something retro for your newsletter topics.