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  The Web page design cookbook
Horton W., Taylor L., Ignacio A., Hoft N., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1996.  Type: Book (9780471130390)

The authors of this guide to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) are indeed cooks, and are remarkably unapologetic and frank:
The easy way [to create a Web page] is to find a Web page that you like, copy it, and change it arou......
Dec 1 1996  
  Designing and writing online documentation (2nd ed.)
Horton W., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1994.  Type: Book (9780471306351)

As the title suggests, this book is a practical guide to online documentation. The introductory chapter does well in identifying several different types of online documentation systems, such as help facilities, computer-based training ...
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Apr 1 1996  
  Illustrating computer documentation
Horton W., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1991.  Type: Book (9780471538455)

In my review of Horton’s earlier book [1], I commented upon the author’s emphasis on design effort, and said such a viewpoint was justified for much the same reasons that I have emphasized design in my writing on so...
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Jun 1 1992  
  Designing and writing online documentation: help files to hypertext
Horton W., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1990.  Type: Book (9789780471507727)

Documentation is hard. This truism is accepted by several groups, including those who make a living documenting products created by others, those who must attempt to document their own creations, and the masses who seek to use the docu...
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Feb 1 1992  

   
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