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| It's Not Just Help, It's HTML Help Basic ideas & their corollaries | |
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| The corollaries | |
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| A note on terminology | |
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| The enhanced proposition | |
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| A complete process | |
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| Basic HTML Help+DHTML+CSS = Enhanced HTML Help | |
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| Who should read this book | |
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| What you can learn from this book | |
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| Limitations | |
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| Chapter overviews | |
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| So How Does It Work? Process & Product Overview What the process looks like | |
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| Notes on file types & extensions | |
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| Planning the system design | |
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| Traditional online help decisions | |
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| Audience/needs analysis | |
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| Organization: reference vs task | |
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| Navigation model | |
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| Tools | |
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| HTML aspects | |
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| Compiled or not? Graphical look and feel (CSS) | |
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| Action & interactivity (DHTML) | |
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| Directory structure | |
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| Crafting reusable elements & templates | |
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| Create the reusable elements (graphics, CSS, and DHTML) | |
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| The graphics | |
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| The style sheets (CSS) | |
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| The dynamic HTML (DHTML) | |
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| Assemble the templates | |
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| Write the individual pages | |
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| Creating the HTML Help project | |
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| Project definition | |
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| Create the project & add its topic files | |
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| Specify parameters | |
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| Window definition: size & styles | |
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| Building the navigation system | |
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| Contents | |
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| Index | |
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| Compiling & testing the project | |
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| Merging modular projects | |
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| Efficiency | |
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| Merging requirements | |
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| Setup options | |
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| Ensuring compatibility & binary index options | |
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| Specifying merge files | |
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| Window definitions | |
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| Merging references | |
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| Preparing merged tables of contents | |
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| Using proper cross-file link syntax | |
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| Bringing It Together: HTML Topics & Templates Where to author | |
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| HTML Help Editor | |
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| HTML Help Image Editor | |
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| Designing the templates | |
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| Identifying the necessary templates types | |
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| Creating reusable elements | |
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| Fashioning the graphic elements | |
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| Assembling a screen capture library | |
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| Writing reusable text | |
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| Creating the templates | |
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| What it looks like | |
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| How it's done | |
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| Recipes for common HTML | |
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| Basic syntax | |
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| Document setup elements | |
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| HTML | |
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| HEAD | |
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| Title | |
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| Body | |
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| Local formatting tags | |
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| Bold & Italic | |
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| Code | |
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| Font | |
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| Center | |
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| Break | |
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| No Break | |
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| Body element tags | |
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| Headings | |
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| Paragraphs | |
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| Images | |
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| Anchors | |
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| Lists | |
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| Bulleted (unordered) lists | |
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| Numbered (ordered) lists | |
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| Numbered list with bullet sub-items | |
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| Definition list | |
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| Tables | |
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| Table | |
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| Table row | |
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| Table header/table data | |
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| Writing the HTML topic pages | |
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| How HTML works with HTML Help-& how it doesn't | |
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| Titling tricks | |
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| Author beware | |
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| Linkages | |
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| Background basics | |
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| Links within a single CHM | |
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| Links between CHMs | |
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| External links from the CHM | |
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| External links to the CHM | |
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| Doing It In Style: CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) | |
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| What CSS is & What it Does | |
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| How to do it | |
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| Browser-dependence | |
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| Types of cascading style sheets | |
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| Linked style sheets | |
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| Embedded style sheets | |
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| Inline style sheets | |
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| Creating the style sheet | |
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| Style definition: the basics | |
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| The rules of inheritance | |
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| Selectors | |
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| Class selectors | |
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| Pseudo-classes | |
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| Contextual selectors | |
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| Anatomy of a value | |
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| Color values | |
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| CSS color names | |
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| RGB color values | |
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| Hexadecimal values | |
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| Browser-safe colors | |
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| Spatial values | |
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| Absolute: length values | |
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| Relative: percentage values | |
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| Keywords | |
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| Crucial properties for Help | |
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| Font properties | |
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| font-family | |
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| font-size | |
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| font-style and font-weight | |
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| font-variant | |
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| font (shorthand property for font properties) | |
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| Text & typography properties | |
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| text-decoration | |
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| vertical-align | |
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| text-align | |
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| line-height | |
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| text-indent | |
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| Color & background properties | |
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| color | |
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| background-color | |
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| background-image | |
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| background (shorthand property for backgrounds) | |
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| Box properties (margin, padding, borders) | |
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| Variants & shorthand versions | |
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| padding-top (-right, -left, -bottom), padding | |
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| border-top-style (-right-, -left-, -bottom-), border-style | |
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| border-top-color (-right-, -left-, -bottom-), border-color | |
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| border-top-width (-right-, -left-, -bottom-), border-width | |
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| border-top (-right, -left, -bottom), border | |
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| margin-top (-right, -left, -bottom), margin | |
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| Classification (listing) properties | |
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| list-style-type | |
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| list-style-image | |
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| list-style-position | |
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| list-style | |
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| Printing properties | |
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