RoboHelp 8: HTML Comprehensive

RoboHelp HTML provides the fastest and easiest way for technical communicators, help authoring professionals, and web developers to build, manage, and publish engaging content for help systems and standalone knowledge bases. Our Robohelp training course will introduce you to the development process for designing a Help system. Learn how to utilize the RoboHelp Office environment to create HTML-based Help projects and generate cross-platform WebHelp, HTML Help and create printed documentation.

Your instructor will cover the pitfalls and the best practices will be followed so that you are creating help documents with the latest standards to reach world-wide audiences across different browsers and computer platforms in this Robohelp class.

This Robohelp 8 training is intensive, but not complicated. Our job is to make difficult concepts easy to understand and implement into your own projects.

LESSON 1

• Introduction to RoboHelp
• HTML
• Create an HTML Help Project
• Explore the Panes and Toolbars
• Explore the Project Pane
• Change Project Settings
• Edit and Add Topics
• Edit a Topic Headline
• Rename and Delete Topics
• Create a TOC Book
• Add, Delete and Rename TOC Books
• Move TOC Books
• Add Pages to TOC Books
• Generate a Project

LESSON 2

• WebHelp and Topic Formatting
• Create a WebHelp Project
• Import an HTML File
• Import a Word Document
• Rename Topic Titles
• Create Project Folders
• Auto-create a TOC
• Apply a Style Sheet to a Topic
• Apply Styles to Selected Paragraphs
• Create a New Style Sheet
• Create a Font Set
• Use Inline Styles
• Spell Check
• Use Multi-File Find and Replace
• Generate 508 and W3C Compliant
• WebHelp

LESSON 3

• FlashHelp, Links, PDFs and Pop-Ups
• Generate FlashHelp Output
• Insert Hyperlinks
• Change Hyperlink Colors
• Import a PDF Document
• Add Popups
• Create Custom-Sized Popups
• Use Link View
• Resolve Broken Links

LESSON 4

• Graphics and Multimedia
• Add Graphics to a Help Project
• Change Image Margins
• Rename an Image
• Add a Background Image
• Add Hotspots to a Graphic
• Add Sound to a Topic
• Import and Format Topics
• Import an Adobe Captivate Demo
• Use RoboScreenCapture

LESSON 5

• Build Tags and Variables
• Create Conditional Build Tags
• Define a Build Tag Expression
• Create a User Defi ned Variable
• Insert and Edit a User Defi ned Variable

LESSON 6

• Tables and DHTML
• Insert a Table
• Format a Table
• Add a Horizontal Line
• Insert a Symbol
• Add a Bulleted List
• Format a Heading with a Fade
• Apply Fly in DHTML Effects
• Work with Positioned Text Boxes
• Create a Trigger

LESSON 7

• Indexes, Glossaries, Printed Docs and PDFs
• Run the Smart Index Wizard
• Remove an Index Entry
• Add Index Entries “On the Fly”
• Add Keywords with the Topic Properties
• Add Subkeywords to the Index
• Create a See Also Keyword
• Add a Link Control to a Topic
• Add Glossary Terms
• Generate a Report
• Generate Printed Documentation
• Generate a PDF

LESSON 8

• Forms and Frames
• Create a New Topic
• Insert a Form and Form Element
• Add Radio Buttons
• Edit a Topic’s HTML Code
• Add a Check Box
• Insert a Drop-Down Menu
• Add a Multi-line Text Field
• Add Submit and Reset Buttons
• Set Form Properties
• Import HTML Files
• Create a Frameset
• Modify Frameset Attributes
• Link Topics into Frameset Regions

LESSON 9

• Skins and Templates
• Use a Skin
• Create a Custom Skin
• Publish a Project
• Create a Topic Template
• Edit a Template

Lesson 10

• Windows, Browsing and Help
• Create a Custom Window
• Create a Browse Sequence
• Review a Web Application’s Source Code
• Publish a WebHelp Project
• Review CSH Source Code
• Create a Custom WebHelp Window
• Create a Map File and Assign Map IDs

RoboHelp Training: HTML Comprehensive Course Prerequisites

• Basic Computer Skills on Windows or Mac