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Thank you all for your quick responses. I love Dilbert anyway, and
Peter's response was my gut reaction. I talked with the client, and
hence my email to you all!
I like Kathleen's approach. Right now there 7 books for different
aspects of working the SW... I prefer the TWO book approach, with theory
and How to... and good linking, related topics, etc. between them all.
Geoff has some good points. I may try to discuss working on the GUI now,
and see if they can implement "Smart" help for each page... that would
be ideal (I think). However, I am doubtful that the client will be open
to any touching of the GUI at this point in time, but I could be wrong.
Having said that... I am wondering if there are any other
thoughts/ideas/out of the box ideas that anyone has.
Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers developing Table of
Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as Doc-To-Help
2009 tips, tricks, and best practices. http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/
Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control! http://www.helpandmanual.com/
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