This course teaches participants how to create professional HTML and WebHelp systems. Participants will learn how to create logically organized and effective help systems that will enable users to find solutions in a timely and efficient manner. By the end of the course, participants will be able to quickly create professional help systems, using RoboHelp’s advanced and time-saving features.

Six Months of After-Training Support
Six months of support is provided to all participants at no extra cost. Participants can communicate with their instructors by telephone or email, and receive immediate support through online training sessions and instruction.

One Day Training
Online Training: $895.00 (per participant)
Classroom: $895.00 (per participant)
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Two Day Training
Online Training: 1350.00 (per participant)
Classroom: $1350.00 (per participant)
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Three Day Training
Online Training: 1850.00 (per participant)
Classroom: $1850.00 (per participant)
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About the Adobe Robohelp Training Course

Course Outline

RoboHelp Training Course Outline

Unit 1 – Introduction

Module 1 - Course Overview
Welcome!
Course Goal
Course Outline
Assumptions
How To Use This Training Manual
How To Use The Training CD
What You Have Learned

Module 2 - 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

Module 3 - 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

Unit 2 – Application HTML Help Project

Module 4 - 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

Module 5 - 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 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
Updating the Topics
What You Have Learned
Module 6 - 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

Module 7 - 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

Module 8 - 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

Module 9 - 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

Module 10 - 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

Module 11 - 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

Module 12 - 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
Module 13 - 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

Unit 3 – WebHelp Project

Module 14 - 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 FrameMaker Files
Assigning a Default Topic
Generating Your WebHelp Layout
What You Have Learned

Module 15 - 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

Module 16 - 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

Module 17 - 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

Module 18 - 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

Module 19 - 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

Module 20 - 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

Module 21 - Creating Context-Sensitive WebHelp
Creating Cross-Platform Context-Sensitive Help
Using Context-Sensitive Help Guidelines
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