Sams Teach Yourself RoboHELP 2000 for HTML Help in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) [Paperback]

Char James-Tanny (Author)

Book Description

Series: Sams Teach Yourself...in 24 Hours | Publication Date: October 25, 1999

Sams Teach Yourself RoboHELP 2000 for HTML Help in 24 Hours quickly empowers you to create Help systems using Microsoft's new HTML Help format. Using her classroom-proven methods, Char provides you with an understanding of the new Help format, and guides you through the use of Blue-Sky's award-winning development tool, enabling you to create your own HTML Help systems quickly and easily. After completing the 24 1-hour lessons, you will be able to edit cascading stylesheets, include charts and other graphics in Help systems, create Topics and link them with hyperlinks, add HTML Help Objects for increased functionality, create easy to use navigation systems, and much more without writing a single line of HTML code.

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Sams Teach Yourself RoboHELP 2000 for HTML Help in 24 Hours quickly empowers you to create Help systems using Microsoft's new HTML Help format. Using her classroom-proven methods, Char provides you with an understanding of the new Help format, and guides you through the use of Blue-Sky's award-winning development tool, enabling you to create your own HTML Help systems quickly and easily. After completing the 24 1-hour lessons, you will be able to edit cascading stylesheets, include charts and other graphics in Help systems, create Topics and link them with hyperlinks, add HTML Help Objects for increased functionality, create easy to use navigation systems, and much more without writing a single line of HTML code.

About the Author

Char James-Tanny is a certified RoboHelp trainer with SOLUTIONS, Inc., instructing Help system developers since 1996. She has 20 years experience as a technical communicator and has developed Help files for clients including Toshiba Corporation, The Walt Disney Corporation, and Blue Sky Software Corporation. Char speaks on advanced Help topics at conferences sponsored by WinWriters, and provides support to the help authoring community through her web site at http://www.helpstuff.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 441 pages
• Publisher: Sams (October 25, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672316250
• ISBN-13: 978-0672316258
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,595,005 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An all-encompassing gem for this Help professional!, February 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself RoboHELP 2000 for HTML Help in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)

Char James-Tanny does a great job of covering lots of introductory issues while also giving the reader a taste of the advanced possibilities--JavaScript, ActiveX, etc.; perfect for someone such as myself who is a "technically-capable newbie".

The 24-hour format allows you to explore the chunks that you're most interested in and then go back and forth through the book as needed. As a technical communicator creating my first on-line HTML Help system (I'm using RH7) this book has made it a little less daunting. The author also does a great job in pointing out the resources that are "out there" and never forgets to remind the reader that the users of the help system are our first concern.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice outline, poor writing, July 10, 2000

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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself RoboHELP 2000 for HTML Help in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)

Looking through the TOC for this book, I was impressed at the extent to which it covered the applications of RoboHelp. But, once I started using the book, I found myself spending progressively more time trying to understand what the author was saying.

The structure for a good book is here, it just needs a few more months on the desks of some good editors.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars RoboHelp 2000 for HTML Help, April 27, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself RoboHELP 2000 for HTML Help in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself -- Hours) (Paperback)

I was greatly disappointed with this book. It is poorly organized, and unclear. It takes an application that should be learned fairly easily and makes it that much harder.

When there are multiple ways of doing the same thing, the author lists them in a numbered list which leads you to believe there are mulitple steps involved. Here's one example:

"Creating a New Window"

"To create a new window, you perform the following steps: 1. Select File, New, Window. 2. Right-click over the Windows folder on the Project tab. 3. Select File, Project Settings. Select the Windows tab and then click New."

These are listed as 3 steps, but in fact are just 3 different ways of doing the same thing.

This is just one illustration of poor organization within this entire book.