Certified MadCap Flare Training Courses
MadCap Flare Advanced Training Course
Audience
This course was designed for experienced Flare users.
Course Overview
This course uses a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on practice to introduce the advanced design and single sourcing features in Flare. By the end of the course, you will have the skills you need to design cutting-edge online targets efficiently using MadCap’s single sourcing features.
During this hands-on course, a Certified Flare Instructor will cover:
- Responsive design best practices
- "Reset" style definitions
- CSS mediums
- The Foundation grid
- Advanced pseudo elements, pseudo classes, and selectors
- Multiple template pages for home pages and other topics
- Responsive layouts
- Home page "card" design and layout
- Advanced topic design and layout
- Font Awesome icons
- Google Fonts
- Responsive tables
- Responsive images
- calc() and CSS variables
- Language-specific style definitions
- Single sourcing designs for print targets
Duration
3-day Web-based Training
Course Fee: $1,199
What’s Covered in This Course
Course overview
- Welcome
- Target Audience
- Course Overview
- Preparing Your Computer for the Course
- About the Sample Project
CSS AND DESIGN OVERVIEW
- Cascading Stylesheets Overview
- Spans and Divs
- IDs and Classes
- Selectors
- Adding Comments to a Stylesheet
- Practice
Stylesheets
- Creating a Stylesheet
- Linking Stylesheets
- Applying a Stylesheet to All Topics
- Applying a Stylesheet to a Topic
- Modifying a Style
- Creating a Style Class
- Creating a Style Class Based on Inline
- Formatting
- Creating a Generic Style Class
- Applying a Style to Content
- Best Practices for Stylesheets
- Practice
Text and List Styles
- About Default Fonts
- Using a Google Font
- Using a Font Set
- Creating a Font Set
- Sizing Text
- Controlling Hyphenation
- Specifying a Bullet Icon
- Removing List Indentation
- Auto-numbering Headings
- Auto-numbering Figure and Table Captions
- Best Practices for Formatting Text and Lists
- Practice
Table Styles
- Creating a Table Stylesheet
- Setting Borders and Separators
- Using Header and Footer Rows
- Setting Alternating Row/Column Background Colors
- Formatting Custom Row/Column Styles
- Creating a Table Style for Print
- Applying a Table Stylesheet to All Tables
- Applying a Custom Table Row/Column Style
- Best Practices for Tables
- Practice
Print Styles
- About Mediums
- Changing the Font Family
- Changing the Font Size
- Setting TOC and Index Styles
- Including Heading Styles in the TOC
- Specifying a Maximum Width for Images
- Best Practices for Formatting Print Targets
- Practice
Linking Projects and External Resources
- About Project Linking
- Importing Files from Another Flare Project
- About External Resource Linking
- Importing an External Resource
- Including Heading Styles in the TOC
- Best Practices for Linking Projects and Using External Resources
- Practice
Responsive Design: Topics
- About Responsive Design
- About Topic Design
- Creating a 2-Column Responsive Layout
- Adding a Breadcrumb Proxy to a Template Page
- Formatting the Breadcrumb Proxy
- Adding a Toolbar Proxy to a Template Page
- Adding a Menu Proxy to a Template Page
- Selecting a Template Page for a Target
- Best Practices for Topic Design
- Practice
Responsive Design: Home Page
- About Home Page Design
- Creating a “Home” Template Page
- Creating a 1-Column Responsive Layout
- Designing a Full-width Hero Image
- Adding a Search Proxy to a Template Page
- Hiding the Search Bar in an HTML5 Skin’s Header
- Assigning a Template Page to a Topic
- Creating a Responsive “Card” Layout
- Creating a Complex CSS Selector
- Using Font Awesome Icons
- Best Practices for Home Page Design
- Practice
Testing and Managing Styles
- Testing Responsive Layouts
- Finding and Fixing Inline Formatting
- Removing Unused Style Classes
- Disabling Styles
- Pinning a Style
- Assigning a Keyboard Shortcut to a Style
- Browser CSS Support Charts
- Best Practices for Testing and Managing Styles
Skins
- About Skin Design Options
- Designing an HTML5 Skin
- Creating a Toolbar Skin
- Designing a Toolbar Skin
- Creating a Menu Skin
- Designing a Menu Skin
- Creating a Search Bar Skin
- Designing a Search Bar Skin
- Applying a Skin to a Proxy
- Selecting a Skin in a Target
- Best Practices for Skins
- Practice
Variables and Snippets
- About Variables and Snippets
- Creating a Date/Time Variable
- Creating a Variable with Multiple Definitions
- Inserting a User-defined Variable
- Inserting a System Variable into a TOC Item
- Using a Variable in a Target
- Selecting a Variable Definition in a Target
- Creating a Snippet
- Inserting a Snippet
- Overriding a Variable’s Definition in a Snippet
- Finding Potential Variables and Snippets
- Finding and Fixing Typed Variables and Snippets
- Creating Used Variable and Used Snippet Reports
- Best Practices for Variables and Snippets
- Practice
Condition Tags
- About Condition Tags
- Creating a Tag
- Applying a Tag to a Topic, File, or Folder
- Applying a Tag to Content
- Applying a Tag to a Glossary Term
- Using Snippet Conditions
- Applying Conditions Using Styles
- Excluding Condition Tags in a Target
- Inserting a Snippet
- Creating a Condition Tag Report
- Best Practices for Conditions
- Practice
Targets
- About Targets
- Creating a Publishing Destination
- Publishing a Target
- Batch Generating Targets
- Best Practices for Targets and Publishing
- Practice
Resources
- Books
- Articles
- Websites
- Flare Customer Showcase and Case Studies
My new team used a variety of different authoring tools, one of which was MadCap Flare. Until starting this job, I had never heard of Flare. The other writers on the team enjoyed authoring in Flare, so when my opportunity came to own a Flare project, I was excited about the possibilities. What I experienced next completely transformed my career as a technical writer. The more I used Flare, the more I enjoyed it. The more I became familiar with its features and functions, the more possibilities I could see on how I could meet my customers’ needs.
Daniel Ferguson | Founder & President, SmartOutput
Upcoming Advanced Training Course
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MadCap Flare Advanced Training, Web-based (North America)
Led by Mike Hamilton, Certified MadCap Flare Instructor, this 3-day online training course will cover a variety of topics including formatting your content with cascading style sheets (CSS), designing master pages and skins, developing responsive content, and single-sourcing.
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MadCap Flare Advanced Training, Web-based (Europe)
Led by Mike Hamilton, Certified MadCap Flare Instructor, this 3-day online training course will cover a variety of topics including formatting your content with cascading style sheets (CSS), designing master pages and skins, developing responsive content, and single-sourcing.
Click below for course details.
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MadCap Flare Advanced Training, Web-based (North America)
Led by Mike Hamilton, Certified MadCap Flare Instructor, this 3-day online training course will cover a variety of topics including formatting your content with cascading style sheets (CSS), designing master pages and skins, developing responsive content, and single-sourcing.
Click below for course details.
