Imagine being able to use RoboHelp 7 to create state-of-the art context sensitive Help after just 3 days of training!!

That's what Academy Class's RoboHelp 7 - Introduction HTML-Based Help course holds in store for you.

This course teaches you how to create effective online Help in a range of HTML-based formats including WebHelp and Adobe FlashHelp and Microsoft's HTML Help. Aimed at Help authors, technical writers, instructional designers, and others who need to create electronic documentation, the course provides an excellent foundation for creating state-of-the art context sensitive Help.

• Welcome!
• Course Goal
• Course Outline
• Assumptions
• How To Use This Training Manual
• How To Use The Training CD
• What You Have Learned

Technology Overview

• Defining a Help System
• Describing the Benefits of a Help System
• Defining the Different Help Systems
• Describing the Different Output Types
• Describing the Basic Characteristics of All Output Types
• Defining HTML
• Defining HTML-Based Help
• Defining Microsoft HTML Help
• Defining Browser-Based Help
• Defining XML
• What You Have Learned

Planning a Help System

• About the Structure of a Help System
• Communicating the Message
• Planning Your Help System
• Using the Systematic Approach
• Analyzing Your Audience, Resource, and Constraints
• Designing a Help System Prototype
• Developing Your Help System
• Implementing Your Help System
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Your Help System
• What You Have Learned

Application HTML Help Project

Starting a New Project

• Project Planning
• Project Background
• Creating a New HTML Help Project
• Understanding the Help Authoring Environment
• Working with the Tag List
• Setting RoboHelp WYSIWYG as the Default Editor
• Working with the WYSIWYG Editor
• Creating a New Topic from the Toolbar
• Checking Your Settings
• Adding More Topics
• What You Have Learned

Working with Files and Folders

• Project Scenario
• Working with Folders
• Opening and Closing Folders
• Selecting Your Viewing Options
• Importing HTML Files
• Importing Microsoft Word Documents
• Importing a Word Document
• Importing Adobe FrameMaker Files
• Creating Headers and Footers
• About Topic Templates
• Creating Topic Templates
• Creating a Header/Footer for Topic Template
• Applying Topic Templates
• Creating a New Folder
• Moving Files In and Out of Folders
• Deleting Files
• Importing More Topics
• Organizing the Project Manager 3
• Updating the Topics 3
• What You Have Learned 3

Working with Styles

• Creating Style Sheets
• Best Practice for Using Styles
• Creating a New External Style Sheet
• Defining Styles
• Creating a New Style
• Attaching a Style Sheet to Several Topics
• Using Embedded Styles
• Using Inline Styles
• Adding Numbered and Bulleted Lists
• Formatting with Inline Styles
• Spell Checking Your Topic
• Practice
• Previewing Topics
• Advanced Practices
• What You Have Learned

Creating Basic Links

• Linking Topics
• Project Update
• Dragging and Dropping to Insert Links
• Viewing Hyperlinks
• Testing Hyperlinks
• Dragging and Dropping More Topics
• Advanced Practices
• What You Have Learned

Adding a Table of Contents

• Creating a Table of Contents
• Adding Books to the TOC
• Adding Pages to the TOC
• Dragging and Dropping Pages into the TOC
• Rearranging Books and Pages
• Automatically Creating TOCs
• Using Right-Click Menu to Update TOC
• Dragging and Dropping a TOC Page into WYSIWYG Editor
• Describing the Merged Help System Feature
• Advanced Practices
• What You Have Learned

Generating an HTML Help Layout

• Project Update
• Defining Primary Layouts and Single Source Layouts
• Generating Microsoft HTML Help Layouts
• Customizing the TOC
• Viewing Your HTML Help Primary Layout
• Using the Output View Pane
• Resolving Broken Links
• Generating Your Revised Layout
• Practice
• What You Have Learned

Adding Media

• Adding Images to Topics
• Dragging and Dropping Images
• Adding Horizontal Lines
• Using the ReSize Tool
• Inserting a Resized Image
• Practice
• About RoboDemo
• Inserting a RoboDemo Movie
• What You Have Learned

Creating an Index

• Indexing Guidelines
• Strategies for Indexing
• Adding Index Keywords Using the Index Designer
• Adding Index Keywords Using the Right-Click Menu
• Automatically Creating Indexes
• Building a Custom Phrase List
• Building an "Always Ignore" List
• Confirming Keywords for Each Topic
• Automatically Adding Keywords
• Viewing the Index
• Options while Smart Indexing
• Creating Multi-Level Index Entries
• Manually Sort the Index
• Arranging Keywords with Toolbar Buttons
• What You Have Learned

Project Review and Distribution

• Generating Your HTML Help Primary Layout
• Preparing for Reports
• Viewing and Printing Reports
• Backing Up Your Project
• Distributing Online Help
• Distributing Microsoft HTML Help
• What You Have Learned

Generating Printed Documentation

• About Single-Source Technology
• Planning for Printed Documentation
• Opening an Existing Project
• Creating Printed Documents
• Creating a Duplicate Layout
• Generating a PDF Document
• Generating Multiple Layouts
• What You Have Learned
• Project Completion

WebHelp Project

Updating a WebHelp Project

• About Your HTML and WebHelp Projects
• Project Background
• Opening an Existing WebHelp Project
• Confirming Primary Layout is WebHelp
• Creating Folders
• Creating a New Topic
• Importing HTML Files
• Importing Word Documents
• Importing Adobe FrameMaker Files
• Assigning a Default Topic
• Generating Your WebHelp Layout
• What You Have Learned

Customizing Your WebHelp Project

• Creating a Font Set
• Creating a New Style Sheet
• Applying the Style Sheet to All Topics
• Updating a Style Sheet
• On-the-Fly Style Creation
• Advanced Practices
• What You Have Learned

Adding Navigation

• Project Update
• Creating a TOC
• Creating an Index
• Creating a WebHelp Glossary
• What Makes a Successful Glossary?
• Strategies for Creating Online Glossaries
• Navigating the Glossary Designer
• About the Glossary Designer and Glossary Hotspot Wizard
• Adding and Defining Glossary Terms
• Adding Expanding Glossary Hotspots Using the Glossary Hotspot Wizard
• Viewing Expanding Glossary Hotspots
• Automatically Removing Expanding Glossary Terms from Topics
• Manually Removing Expanding Glossary Text from Topics
• Generating Your WebHelp Layout
• Practice and Advanced Practices
• Spell Checking the TOC
• Viewing Reports
• What You Have Learned

Adding Bookmarks and an Image Map Hotspot

• Creating Bookmarks
• Creating a Back-to-Top Bookmark
• Creating a Frameset
• Creating Bookmarks for Frameset
• Linking a Custom Frameset
• Viewing a Custom Frameset
• Creating an Image Map Hotspot
• What You Have Learned 3

Finishing Touches

• Project Update
• Inserting a Table into a Topic
• Working with Tables
• Working with Bullets and Lists
• Creating Links to Your Topics
• Creating Skins
• Generating WebHelp with Skins
• Practice
• Generating FlashHelp with Skins
• Advanced Practices
• What You Have Learned

Using Conditional Build Tags

• About Conditional Build Tags
• Planning for Conditional Build Tags
• Creating New Conditional Build Tags
• Applying Conditional Build Tags to Topic Content
• Previewing Conditional Text
• Applying Conditional Build Tags to Topic Level
• Verifing Conditional Build Tag Properties
• Defining Conditional Build Tag Expressions
• Combining Build Tags with Layouts
• Setting Your Primary Layout
• Practice
• What You Have Learned

Distributing Cross-Platform Help Projects

• Spell Checking Your Entire Project
• Defining WebHelp
• Defining WebHelp's Accessibility
• Generating Section 508 Compliant WebHelp
• Publishing a WebHelp Layout
• Republishing a WebHelp Layout
• Distributing WebHelp
• What You Have Learned

Creating Context-Sensitive WebHelp

• Creating Cross-Platform Context-Sensitive Help
• Using Context-Sensitive Help Guidelines
• Introducing the Electronic Timecard.htm
• Creating Context-Sensitive WebHelp
• Creating a Map File
• Creating Map IDs
• Creating a Custom Window
• Copying Your WebHelp Project
• Viewing the Source Code
• Calling a WebHelp System from an HTML Page
• Calling a Single Context-Sensitive Topic from an HTML Page
• Using the Context-Sensitive Help Test Tool
• What You Have Learned

Working With RoboHelp Office Pro

• Using RoboHelp Office Pro
• Understanding the Process
• Defining RoboEngine
• Defining the RoboEngine Configuration Manager
• Overview of Tasks
• Setting the Primary Layout to WebHelp Pro
• Connecting Your Project to the Engine
• Publishing a Project to the Engine
• Merging Projects
• Accessing Reports
• Viewing Reports
• Accessing the Merged Projects
• Testing the Natural Language Search
• Entering More Questions for Natural Language Search
• Working with Synonyms
• Republishing a Project to the Engine
• Changing the Configuration Manager
• Testing the Natural Language Synonym Editor 3
• What You Have Learned 3
• Project Completion 3

Standalone HTML Help Project

Updating an Online Information Project

• Project Background
• Opening an Existing HTML Help Project
• Changing Window Properties
• Changing the Window Caption
• Adding a New Topic
• Adding a Jump Button
• Creating Folders
• Importing Files
• Accessing the TOC
• Creating Books With No Links
• Dragging Topics to Create Pages
• Adding Related Topics Link Controls
• See Also Overview
• Implementing See Also Feature
• See Also versus Related Topics
• Adding See Also Keywords in the Index Designer
• Associating Topics With the See Also Keywords
• Adding See Also Controls to Topics
• Viewing Your Project
• Duplicating See Also Controls 3
• Viewing Your Updated Project 3
• Practice 3
• Advanced Practices 3
• What You Have Learned 3

Adding Effects

• Project Update
• Adding Dynamic HTML to an Image
• Practice
• Adding Dynamic HTML to Text
• Practice
• Adding Popups
• Adding Text-Only Popups to Topics
• Practice
• Adding Popup Links to Topics
• Resizing Popup Links to Topics
• Creating a Drop-Down Hotspot
• Creating Image Maps
• Using Advanced DHTML Features
• Adding a Positioned Text Box
• Using Triggers and Targets to Create DHTML
• Adding Sounds to Topics
• Advanced Practices 3
• What You Have Learned 3

Creating Browse Sequences

• Defining Browse Sequences
• Planning for Browse Sequences
• Updating Window Properties
• Automatically Creating Browse Sequences
• Manually Creating Browse Sequences
• What You Have Learned

Working With Version Control

• Project Background
• Describing the Benefits of Version Control
• How Version Control Works
• How Version Control Works in RoboHelp
• Describing Strategies for Multi-Author Projects
• Using the Version Control Toolbar
• Adding a Project to Version Control
• Editing a Checked Out File
• Checking In an Edited File
• Showing the History of Files
• Showing the Differences Between Files
• Rolling Back to a Previous Version of a File
• What You Have Learned
• Project Completion
• Class Completion

• Experience of a word processor (preferably Microsoft Word), including use of styles
• Previous experience of writing Help an advantage, but not essential
• Some knowledge of HTML and CSS an advantage, but not essential

Professionals seeking to create or enhance Help Systems using Robo-Help. Users will benefit from the many tips and tricks, as well as special exercises. Participants are encouraged to bring problems, questions and samples from their working environment to the class for group discussion.

• Planning a Help System
• Generating an HTML Help Layout
• Using Files, Folders, & Styles in Creating a Help System
• Adding Media
• Creating Basic Links
• Creating an Index
• Adding a Table of Contents
• Generating & Distributing Online Help
• Updating and Customizing WebHelp Projects
• Generating Printed Documentation
• Adding Navigation, Bookmarks, & Image Map Hotspots
• Finishing Touches
• Conditional Building Tags
• Cross-Platform Help Projects
• Context-Sensitive WebHelp
• RoboHelp Office Pro
• Updating an Online Information Project
• Adding Effects
• Creating Browser Sequences
• Working with Version Control