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May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Daniel Ferguson Flare Tips, MadWorld

25 tips that every MadCap Flare user should know

At MadWorld 2019 in San Diego, I presented a session called “10 tips that every MadCap Flare user should know.” I had many attendees ask if they could have my notes from the session, but the unfortunate reality was that I didn’t have notes. All I had was a simple list of about 25 tips, […]

Using the Grunt task automator to use LESS in MadCap Flare projects
June 15, 2018June 17, 2018 Daniel Ferguson Flare Tips, MadWorld

Using the LESS CSS Preprocessor in your Flare Project

I’ve worked in hundreds of Flare projects since I started my business around 5½ years ago, and when you work in that many projects, you start to notice trends. There are a handful of issues that I know I’m likely to find in nearly any Flare project that I work in, and one of the […]

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April 4, 2018April 4, 2018 Daniel Ferguson Flare Tips

Adding Persistent Highlighting to MadCap Flare TopNav

Recently, a client asked if we could keep the highlighted state of a Flare-generated TopNav menu item when a user clicks into any topic in that menu item’s tree. Previously, we had added a hover styling for TopNav items in the skin file, but the hover styling didn’t persist when a user clicked into a […]

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March 2, 2018March 2, 2018 Daniel Ferguson Flare Tips

Minifying Flare HTML output files with Grunt

One of my MadWorld 2017 presentations is all about improving the performance of Flare HTML5 outputs. Quick page loads are an important factor in the overall success of your help. Slow page load times leave your users looking for answers to their questions elsewhere. While the overall performance of any website is subject to dozens […]

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March 2, 2018March 16, 2018 Daniel Ferguson Flare Tips

Using FontAwesome in your MadCap Flare HTML output

FontAwesome has become extremely popular and useful over the last few years. I’m getting more and more questions from clients and others in the Flare community about how to use FontAwesome in MadCap Flare projects. This article helps get you started. What is FontAwesome? FontAwesome is a collection of scalable vector icons and graphics that can […]

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March 1, 2018March 2, 2018 Daniel Ferguson Flare Tips

Creating multiple print outputs from a single Flare TOC

A few years back, I presented “MadCap Flare for the Total Newbie” as part of MadCap software’s free webinar series. As part of that presentation, I talked about Flare’s multi-channel publishing capabilities, and I gave an example of the way that one of my clients is using multi-channel publishing. In this case, my client is using […]

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March 1, 2018March 2, 2018 Daniel Ferguson Flare Tips

Linking to external websites from the Flare TOC

I’ve had a lot of questions recently about Flare TOCs. One of the little-known facts about Flare TOCs is that you can link to external websites from TOC entries. I’ve had more clients ask me this question in the past few months than I had in the previous several years, and I think it’s because […]

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