Methodology and best practice
In this section, we are covering important methods and best practices that will make your documentation better.
See also
- Write the Docs: Topic Archive
A collection of conference talks and articles, indexed by topic (eg.
Metrics and analytics
orInformation architecture
)
You can familiarize yourself with these topics before or after writing documentation. We encourage that you read this at any time, as this content is applicable to many stages of the documentation process.
- ⏩️ The Diátaxis Methodology
We introduce the Diátaxis methodology which is also used for the documentation you are now reading.
- ⏩️ Creating reproducible builds
Every documentation project has dependencies that are required to build it. Using an unspecified versions of these dependencies means that your project can start breaking. In this guide, learn how to protect your project against breaking randomly. This is one of our most popular guides!
- ⏩️ Search engine optimization (SEO) for documentation projects
This article explains how documentation can be optimized to appear in search results, increasing traffic to your docs.