
Frank M. Palinkas
- Location:
- South Africa
- Occupation:
- Senior Technical Communicator, Web Standards and Accessibility Designer
Frank is an American, working in South Africa as a Senior Technical Communicator/Web Standards and Accessibility Designer, and holds the following concurrent Microsoft Certifications: MCP, MCT, MCSE and MCDBA. He also holds the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the Windows Help product area.
Frank authors all markup, presentation, behavior code and content using Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System IDE source code editors for (X)HTML, CSS and Unobtrusive DOM/JavaScript. His technical writing incorporates web standards, accessibility, and semantics. He employs Helpware FAR HTML for the creation of MSHelp1 and MSHelp2 documentation packages and executables. Frank enjoys creating Fast Track Help tutorials which are offered free of charge to the Help Authoring and Technical Writing community. They are kept at his web page (provided courtesy of Helpware.net) for online viewing and download: http://frank.helpware.net.
He is happily married to his wife of twenty-six years, Wanda, and they have two sons, Gregory (MCSD and Computer Animator) and Andre (Photo-Journalist) who are both currently attending Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, USA. They live in Bedfordview, South Africa, situated in the eastern part of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Area.


