The video tutorial on graphics

Bydr.kim July 21, 2012June 8, 2013

A couple of days ago, I made the point that, although professionals today need to communicate visually in workplace documents, most amateur writers have little relevant experience. If you are working on online graphics, check out amCharts, a small Lithuanian company, which was featured in Smashing Magazine a few years back. The graphic above is a still version of a JavaScript sample. (I can’t use the live version here.) And did I mention their software is free?

If you need a basic introduction to graphics in professional writing, I’m sharing another short video lecture-tutorial today.

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