Useful Links for Technical Authors

This page contains links to some of the sites I access frequently. They are provided here primarily to save me having to synchronize my Favo(u)rites between my home PCs and my work PC, but other writers may also find them useful.


Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (www.istc.org.uk)		Merriam Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus (www.m-w.com)
Society for Technical Communicators (www.stc.org)		Acronym Finder (www.acronymfinder.com)
Quality Independent Authors (www.qualityauthors.co.uk)		Finance Glossary (www.duke.edu/~charvey/classes/wpg/glossary.htm)
TECHWR-L: Technical Writer's ListServ (www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/index.php3)		Financial Glossary (www.finance-glossary.com/pages/home.htm)
		International Trade Glossary (www.maxtrad.com/glossary.htm)
SAP (www.sap.com)		Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
ASUG (Americas SAP User Group) (www.asug.com)
Information Mapping (www.infomap.com)		File Extensions (filext.com)
		U.S. Area Code Locator (www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html)
Worldwide Web Consortium (www.w3c.org)		Free Translations (www.freetranslation.com)
CSS Validator (http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/)		Conversion Tables and Abbreviations (www.convert-me.com/en/)
XHTML Validator (http://validator.w3.org/)
HTML Tidy HTML Tidy (http://cgi.w3.org/cgi-bin/tidy)		ISO 01.110 Technical Product Documentation (www.iso.org)
		ISO 3166: Country Codes (http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/list-en1.html)
3WK Underground Radio (http://www.3wk.com)		ISO 4217: Currency Codes (http://www.thefinancials.com/vortex/CurrencyFormats.html)
		ISO 639: Language Codes (http://www.lisa.org/iso639.html)
		British Standards Institute (www.bsi-global.com/index.xalter)