MadSkills, Inc. (a subsidiary of MadCap Software) provides professional, affordable, onsite, and offsite classroom or web-based training for MadCap Blaze, so you can maximize the return on your software investment.

Onsite and Web-based Training

Basic/Intermediate Course

During a hands on, three-day onsite or four-day web-based training course, a Certified Blaze Instructor will cover basic and intermediate skills, including:

• Blaze overview
• Importing HTML, FrameMaker or Word documents
• Creating and editing topics
• Book and page outlines
• Indexing
• Glossary
• Links, bookmarks, footnotes
• Tables and stylesheets
• Page layouts
• Condition tags
• Variables and snippets
• Targets and output types
• Creating, configuring, and generating PDF, XPS, and XHTML documents

For a detailed outline of this training course, click here.

Advanced CSS Course

We also offer a one-day on-site or two half-day web based advanced training course that covers:

• CSS overview
• Creating, importing, and modifying stylesheets
• Text styles
• List styles
• Link and dynamic content styles
• Table styles
• Print styles
• Testing styles

For a detailed outline of this training course, click here.

Advanced Single Sourcing Course

We also offer a one-day on-site or two half-day web based advanced training course that covers:

• Importing and re-importing documents
• TOCs and outlines
• Document design: master pages, headers, and footers, page layout
• Stylesheets: master stylesheets, page breaks, medium types, auto-numbering
• Creating and formatting cross-references, TOC, glossary, and index types
• Condition tags
• Variables and snippets
• Building, using, and publishing targets
• Master projects: adding, creating, reusing, and linking of master projects

For a detailed outline of this training course, click here.

Consulting

Consulting services are also provided on a project basis by MadSkills, Inc. Services include assistance with existing content conversion, project analysis, assistance starting a new project correctly, or trouble shooting and workflow assistance. Training and three days of consulting are available as a "Quick Start" program.

If you’re interested in becoming a Certified Blaze Instructor, please contact: madcapinfo@madcapsoftware.com