Online-Help Development Resources

This is the online-help development resources page for the online help course. If you know of good resources for people learning to create online helps, contact admin@mcmassociates.iohcexres@prismnet.com.

• Independent tools survey. MadCap Flare wins!.
• IconLogin Weblog. Lots of useful information on RoboHelp.
• indoition.com. Quite a collection of "basic know-how, checklists, tools and links, which will help you to write create clear and concise user-friendly manuals."
• WritersUA. From WinWriters, Inc. In particular, see WebResources and Archives.
• Introduction to Apple Help Programming Guide. All about Apple Help, the HTML-based system for providing user assistance in Mac OS X.
• Peter Grainge. Very specific recommendations on fixing very specific help problems. See the info on problems with importing Word documents, in particular.
• TECHWR-L. Search on online help. (Be sure and click the www.techwr-l.com button.)
• Writers Write. From Writers Write, Inc. See the links for RoboHelp and WinHelp.
• Online Help and Documentation. Resources made available by Keith Soltys.
• News and Reviews. Provided by techwriter.com. Articles reviewing MadCap Flare, RoboHelp 7, and general online-help industry goings-on.
• The Future of RoboHelp?. Joe Welinske's observations on the future of RoboHelp.
• Designing a Help System. Microsoft's own discussion of process, format, guidelines for creating helps.
• MSHelpWiki. Knowledgebase of Microsoft Help-related information, initially created by the MicrosoftHelpMVPs and maintained by the Help authoring community. An effort to tie together the many Help-related sites on the Web. Try this one if you have a question or problem with the help-authoring tool you are using.
• Free Help Authoring, Manual and Documentation Writing Tools. Over a dozen free help-development tools.

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