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Subject:Re: how to evaluate help authoring software? From:Goober <techcommgoober -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 15 May 2002 08:07:20 -0700 (PDT)
If it's only HTML that you want, check out
Dreamweaver, and perhapd the DevaTools extension for
creating a help-like interface with TOC and search.
www.macromedia.com
www.devahelp.com
--- Rosemary J Horner <rhorner -at- quellos -dot- com> wrote:
> One of the things my supervisor thought was a
> problem first time around when
> they decided to build it, was that we have so many
> web-based applications
> that are related but separate. Our current help
> system allows the user to
> press F1 or click Help from any page in an
> application--that opens the help
> viewer window with the help for that page and
> navigation for that app
> displayed. There's a search button in the help
> viewer window that allows you
> to search for a term across all our apps or in a
> specific one, or to view
> all help for a specific app. All the apps that have
> help are listed. Is this
> an uncommon feature or likely to be an issue?
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