Generating Walkthroughs and Web Content at the Same Time with Clarify

Getting Into the Swing of Things

I've been struggling for a long time with the notion of how to really start blogging in an efficient way, and it seems now that I have found the sweet mix of software and process. It's not easy watching yourself struggle with something that you know to be a path of success, and not be abe to find the method to follow it.

Clarify — Thank God!

Clarify is the key to this whole process.

Step 1 — Launch Clarify—no wait, Calrify is already open and running! Shift-Command-2 is already enabled!

Step 2 — Go at 'er!

Take your First Screenshot

Pressing Shift-Command Two brings up the following view. Clarify is moved out of the way, and you are left with crosshairs over the window behind. A small inset gives you shortcuts to change how the capture operates. By Crosshairs, by window, and with or without the cursor.

Build and Annotate the Screenshot in Clarify

And add your text and features.

Off to the Mac Zen Website

Go to http://www.maczen.ca/administrator/ and log in.

Every Process has Repeatable Steps

Adding a new article is the first step in creating the blog entry

Fill in the Necessary Fields

This is quite self explanatory. I tend to leave alias, as this is automatically from the Title.

Share the Document to Clarify

By clicking on the share icon…

Clip the HTML in Clarify

Once

Paste the HTML into the Article

Make sure that the JCEdit Toolbars are toggled off

Click Save and Close

And You're Done!

It's just that simple.