John Hedtke - Robohelp for the Web

This book and CD combination from John Hedtke and Brenda Huettner explains how to use the latest versions of eHelp's RoboHelp Enterprise and RoboHelp Office to create HTML and web-based help. The book covers the latest features in RoboHelp, including natural language search, team development support, and customizable look and feel using "skins." In addition, the book describes how to create server-based help with RoboHelp Enterprise. Server-based help allows the developer to maintain a company knowledge base and continually update the online help files.

":RoboHelp for the Web": is the only book on the market to cover RoboHelp Enterprise. The emphasis throughout the book is on how you, the writer or developer, can create web-based help quickly and easily. The book addresses all user levels. It provides the beginning user of RoboHelp Office and RoboHelp Enterprise with an introduction to the products and shows how to create HTML Help and WebHelp files. It shows intermediate and advanced users how to get the most out of the product and the ancillary tools. The book also describes how to create a corporate help base or enterprise-wide help from HTML or web-based help.

RoboHelp for the Web Covers the Essentials

The book starts by showing you how to install and configure RoboHelp Office or RoboHelp Enterprise on your system. You then see how to plan an online help project. After a chapter familiarizing you with the product's features, the book describes how to start a RoboHelp HTML project. You see how to add topics, compile a simple help file, and test and debug. The book next describes how to link topics, format text, paragraphs, and topic pages, and use lists and tables.

Once the basics are covered, you learn how to enhance add graphics, buttons, and other special effects to a help project, how to create tables of contents and indexes, and how to maintain a consistent look and feel using templates, DHTML, cascading style sheets, skins, and windows. You next see how to create context-sensitive help files, forms (using CGI scripts), and frames and framesets.

The book concludes with information on how to create WebHelp Enterprise, RoboHelp's server-based help system. You learn how to generate and publish WebHelp Enterprise from HTML Help and WebHelp projects. The book also shows you how to use RoboHelp's natural language search features, how to copy WebHelp and WebHelp Enterprise projects to other server locations, and how to configure and tune the RoboEngine. Appendixes show the various types of files and file extensions as well as the reports you can generate for information about your help projects.

Bonus CD Included!

There is also a CD with a 15-day trial version of RoboHelp Office 2002 and a 7-day trial version of RoboDemo, an exciting new product from eHelp for creating training videos quickly and easily.

RoboHelp for the Web , 450 pages, $49.95, available from Wordware Computer Books ISBN 1-55622-954-2