Alia Michaels
Freelance Technical Writer
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Samples of Help Systems
HTML5-based Help: Developed with MadCap Flare
(client information redacted)
The online help system is for supply chain planning and forecasting software with multiple modules — some modules for users and some for administrators. The original content was in FrameMaker. I converted the FrameMaker files into Flare to deliver online help. Subsequent content updates were done in Flare.
CHM: Photo Explosion
(© Nova Development Corp.)
Photo Explosion is a consumer application for managing, organizing, and editing digital photos. This sample includes the Table of Contents showing a topic from the Windows HTML help file (.chm) that was created using WebWorks ePub from FrameMaker source files.
CHM: Art Explosion Greeting Card Factory
(© Nova Development Corp.)
Greeting Card Factory is a consumer product that supplies designs for greeting cards that users can customize. These help samples include the Table of Contents showing a topic from the Windows HTML help file (.chm) and the TOC and a procedure in the tutorial. The help system and tutorial were both created with RoboHelp.
Apple Help & CHM: Food Network Recipe Manager
(© Nova Development Corp. and © Food Network)
Food Network Recipe manager is a cross-platform application. These samples show the same topic as it appears in the Windows HTML Help file and in the Apple Help system. The content was developed as HTML files for the Macintosh version and then adjusted as needed and compiled with Microsoft HTML Help Workshop.
Apple Help: VM2Go
(© BriteMac LLC)
This is a utility for working with virtual machines created by the original versions of Parallels Desktop for Mac. This example shows a topic in VM2Go Help with a side-by-side Table of Contents.
Apple Help: Photo Objects 150,000
(© Nova Development Corp.)
This is a collection of photo-realistic clip art for Macintosh systems that includes a browser. The samples show the Table of Contents (where the right pane shows the subtopics in a selected topic) and a topic of the Apple Help system.
