This article discusses why links are important, and how technical communicators can make them without actually explicitly writing them.

The technical communication community has come to the agreement that creating a link strategy, and the actual links, is a time consuming affair.

In this article I show how links can be generated from content classification (that is, lists of metadata —taxonomies — used to classify content). 

Using this approach means that you no longer have to worry about broken links in a topic-based authoring environment, nor do you have to create time-consuming relationship tables.

Moreover, you don’t have to take the fight of deciding whether you should hardcode embedded links or provide a related topics section at the end.  Read more...