The Official Microsoft Html Help Authoring Kit: Understanding, Creating, and Migrating to Microsoft Html Help for the Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows Nt 4.0 Operating Systems
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The Official Microsoft Html Help Authoring Kit: Understanding, Creating, and Migrating to Microsoft Html Help for the Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows Nt 4.0 Operating Systems
HTML HELP AUTHORING KIT is designed for Internet and intranet Web site administrators/developers who want to give their users integrated help systems, as well as software developers who are moving their applications to distributed environments, and who need to maintain their help systems in a central location.
The book starts with a look at previous help systems, then it explains HTML Help and how it works. The book also goes through a crash course in HTML, then moves on to HTML Help, giving helpful contextual clues and parallel procedures for those who already have experience with help systems such as those created with Windows Help. Information is also given on converting from other help formats.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
The book is about as good as the HTML Help Authoring Kit:
This book suffers from shortcomings, but to be fair, so does Microsoft's HTML Help SDK. The SDK suffers from a sloppy user interface, modal windows that should be modeless, some unbelievable bugs, etc., and you can see that it has made the book less useful than it could be.
Specifically, the book is missing information that users of a reasonably well-debugged application should not need, such as a list of bugs, features never implemented, features that don't work correctly, etc.
Help for VB applications is a sick joke to begin. Mr. Wexler took me no closer to writing professional Help Text than I was before spending the money, and time, on this effort.
Not worth the money!:
One star because this appears to be the only book available on the subject. The examples are POOR and incomplete, if they exist at all. There has to be more than this to HTML help.
One Of The Worst Technical Books Ever...:
This book is written in a point-and-click, monkey-see monkey-do format. If you follow the steps EXACTLY you will end up with (usually) a working help file with no explanation for what you have been doing. The author even tells you that some of his code "won't run in this version but will in the next" - and most don't. Half of the things I want to know (TOCs, FullText indexes, WhatsThisHelp for VB, etc.) do not have adequate (if any) coverage. It is too bad that the minimum rating is 1 star because I don't... more info
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