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Subject:Re: Planning an on-line help project From:"Von Wagner, Krista" <krista -at- QUADRALAY -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:37:48 -0500
Dear Ava,
I would recommend taking a look at Developing Online Help by Scott
Boggan, David Farkas, and Joe Welinske. The book provides information
on practical design strategies, implementation tips and techniques, and
guidance on using tools and managing Help projects.
Krista Von Wagner
krista -at- quadralay -dot- com
(512) 719-3399 X237
"If dogs don't go to heaven, then when I die I want to go where they
went!"
-----Original Message-----
From: Ava Carmel [mailto:Ava -at- ESCMED -dot- COM]
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 2:37 AM
Subject: Planning an on-line help project
I write User Manuals for pulsed light and laser medical devices, and I
have
now been asked to write on-line help for these PC-operated systems.
Recently there has been a lot of material on the list about which tool
to
use. But I am looking for something more basic, i.e. background material
about how to approach the subject of on-line help in general, and how to
plan and design an HTML on-line help project. Can anyone recommend a
book
on this subject?
Ava Carmel
ESC Medical Systems
