RE: A Survey: Do You Name Your Images in a Std Way?

["Ladonna Weeks" <ladonna -dot- weeks -at- comtrak -dot- com>]

I've struggled with this for years because I sometimes don't work
on a document for a year then I can't remember what I called the
images. I mostly work in MS Word and there is no way to get it to
remember the file name of an image. The following system is what
I have evolved: I try to name them with the first few words that
appear in the dialog. If it's a button, I'll name it for the word
on the button, followed by button ("file button"). If there are
no words, I describe it (small green box, for example).

HTH

Ladonna Weeks
ladonna -dot- weeks -at- comtrak -dot- com
314-895-7674
cell: 314-210-1652

-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Vega [mailto:BarbaraV -at- libertyims -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 12:52 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: A Survey: Do You Name Your Images in a Std Way?

Hi all:

When you write your documentation and you are making images
galore - whether it be an electronic document (in Robo or
whatever) or PDF or what have you, and you are making images as
you go along going back and forth to the software, going through
it as you go capturing and pasting and going through the steps
and putting the images in, do you name your images in a standard
way, or do you name them haphazardly?

For example:

Do you name them with some convention, like all the buttons start
with an abbreviation BTN-SOANDSO And all the dialogs DLG-soandso?
Or 4BTN-soandso - to denote Version 4 of the software, etc?

Or do you just name them Figure1 Figure2 Figure 3 to follow the
numbers they are in the manual?

Or do you just name them something that describes what they are
like FlderView1, DialogUoponEntry,  LoginBtn, etc.

I am curious as to how many of us standardize this, and if you
find it helps.



Thanks

Barb


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