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Subject:The Writer's Kit From:Dana Utz <utzdana -at- MAIL -dot- NETWAVE -dot- NET> Date:Sun, 4 Jan 1998 21:02:10 -0600
In response to what the basic freelance TW's kit should contain. . .
Microsoft Office is an essential, but not necessarily Office 97 (IMHO).
In unsolicited calls from headhunters for freelance jobs, I have found the
software tools Framemaker and RoboHELP to be the ones most commonly
requested. A knowledge of HTML is also a big plus, but no one has mentioned
a specific web-authoring tool.
Personally, I have never had a project requiring me to use a true desktop
publishing tool such as PageMaker or Framemaker. But independent
contractors I have talked to seem to find a lot of call for desktop
publishing skills.
