Re: Which Help is the best help?

["David M. Brown" <dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com>]

Kate O'Neill wrote:
> 
> My client is trying to decide on the best help technology
> for each of several apps (each app can have different help
> delivery technology)... the two web-based apps
> will rely on vanilla HTML, but I'm not thrilled about
> delivering in vanilla HTML (no search or index unless they
> roll their own).
> 
> Any suggestions?

Plain HTML is a perfectly viable medium for quite useful help systems.  We've developed them for (and with) several of our clients.  As for the search and index features:

 *  Search engines are available in many price ranges (beginning 
    with free, from what I understand).

 *  "Rolling your own" index would be a much more difficult task 
    if it weren't for HTML Indexer.  :) 

--David

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