Welcome to the home of The Helpware Group. Here you will find support for MS HTML Help 1.x and MS Help 2.0, FrontPage and Delphi. We are based in Melbourne Australia. Enjoy the site.
This is a list of Frequently Asked Questions for the FAR HTML program and HTML Help users in general.
Helpware.net (2001). Reference>Writing>Help
MS Help 2.x was announced at WinWriters on March 5, 2001. MS Help 2 is the help system used by Visual Studio .NET help and MSDN Library, and now the Borland .NET IDEs. Getting started with MS Help 2.0? This site is a start.
Helpware.net (2001). Reference>Writing>Help>Technical Writing
Creating Accessible Tabular Data Tables: A Help Authoring Guide
This Fast Track tutorial demonstrates and employs web standards and accessibility methods for tabular data table creation. It is presented free of charge to the community as a help authoring, technical writing and web design guide.
Palinkas, Frank M. helpware.net (2009). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Help
This Fast Track tutorial demonstrates how to create automatic line numbering in a code block.
Palinkas, Frank M. helpware.net (2009). Articles>Documentation>CSS>Help
Calling Accessible Context-Sensitive Help with Unobtrusive DOM/JavaScript: A Help Authoring Guide
This Fast Track tutorial demonstrates two methods to call Context-Sensitive Help in a Web Form. We'll discover how Unobtrusive DOM/JavaScript achieves the desired result in calling Context-Sensitive help, and demonstrate how to keep the Structure, Presentation, and Behavior layers of a web page completely separate from one another ensuring good practice with current web standards and accessibility rules.
Palinkas, Frank M. helpware.net (2009). Articles>Web Design>Documentation>Help
There are times when we need to build a navigation tree stucture to accomodate a small document collection. There is no need to have this nav list expand or contract, so employing a Behavior layer (unobtrusive DOM/JavaScript) is not appropriate.
Palinkas, Frank M. helpware.net (2009). Articles>Web Design>CSS>Help
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