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 […]
Tag: Advanced 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]