Monday, October 22, 2007

web Notes , documentation , HTML help pages

this realplayer help has the best HTML help system i have seen so far at this url . If url changes later in future find 'product help' page from Real player web site. Study JS code behind the help page. This help format , content layout should be industry standard. http://i.realone.com/product/help/rp11/en/R1P.htm
it has
a) instanat serachble ( for each key stroke )index
b) rank based serach
c) glossary
d) all of them integrated with nice 'MS outlook ' like left side MENU. cool


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Nice category Menu from adobe labs - It looks clean and simple ( may be need little bigger font )
This is also best way of explaining a new language or new frame work all in one page. It is in one page so user do not get lost.. easy to grasp all the aspects of a frame work in one place .. ( this spray is found from aptana ..)

This google menu category based list is great and it is clean - http://code.google.com/more/#label=New&product=android
- wow great way of listing category items , simple and clean google way ..
Any company documentations can be this simple and clean to access documents , Ask people to enter information in xml file and have a program to generate the final file UI like this

SUN JSF documentation
-Sun JSF documentation page :
- Neat item lists with no a,b,c,d hard coded no numbers and good font, best example of documentation for tech developers at this SUN JSF url.
- Look at html view source it is great , no hard code a,b,c or numbers. List items can be added dynamically. Good example of no sweat 'developer notes'
- you need to have those div class="pSmartList1" pSmartList2 etc along with .css fiels

abiword
- abiword help pages are simple html page, very lean menu with div css based left menu
- you can have one page for each section with 'listing all sections' on top of page , and having #secNum2 as hrefs .. this gives basically one page for each topic
- how to see , install abiword, go to 'Help->Help Contents'
- you can also search for other help systems on internet (further validate )

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