Examples

[harooki2]

Can someone recommend a web site that shows examples of HTML Help and offer ideas for innovative authoring?

[Captiv8r]

Hi harooki2

I'm not sure how "innovative" you may think they are, but I've got several freely downloadable HTML Help (.CHM format) files on my site.

* Tips and Tricks
* Skinny on Skins
* Top Ten RoboHelp Misunderstandings
* Etc.

Maybe they will give you some ideas?

Cheers... Rick

[RoboColum_n_]

Hi harooki2.
In addition to Rick's suggestion you could also do worse than look at the help in the applications you use every day (e.g. email, image capture, timesheet, even RoboHelp).

[Captiv8r]

Excellent point, Colum!

Happy Tuesday... Rick

[Pete_Lees · Accepted solution]

Hi, harooki2,

Here are a few more resources that you may want to take a look at.

• Scott Boggan's "Microsoft HTML Help Design Techniques". Provides examples (some of which are now deprecated), of how to use features like data binding, Persistence, Internet Explorer behaviors, and HTML+TIME in HTML Help.
  
  http://helpman.it-authoring.com/viewtopic.php?t=6220
  
  
• Simon Jones' "HTML-based Help tips". Provides examples of how to create non-scrolling regions, feature-rich popup windows, and show/hide paragraphs, and how to copy-protect the help content (to some degreee, anyway).
  
  http://www.simon-jones.org.uk/help.htm
  
  
• Scott Prentice's sample files. Include examples of how to update the contents of an HTML Help file without recompiling it.
  
  http://www.leximation.com/downloads
  
  
• Adobe's "HTML Help Sample Projects". Include examples of how to use frames and dropdown lists in HTML Help.
  
  http://www.adobe.com/support/robohelp/htmlhelp.html
  
  

Pete