Online-Help Modeling Project

The following includes the instructions for creating a model of the small help project and how to name and send it to your instructor.

• Compile your help project, and send the compiled file to your instructor—not the working project files. Name this project file with your name, the sequence number, and the draft version of this assignment. The help-formatting project is probably the first assignment you'll send directly to your instructor, so name it your_name01a.chm if you use RoboHELP; .hlp if you use HTML Help or some other application that uses this extension. If you revise, change 01a to 01b. Send this project as an e-mail attachment to your instructor.
• Expect to receive e-mail confirmation that your instructor has received your files. If not, contact your instructor.

Instructions on Modeling the Online Helps

If you cannot easily read the text in the following screen captures, download the actual high.chm file. Also, you can copy the text directly off the help when you download it and display it on your own computer.

Note: Macintosh user! Get in touch with your instructor if you have problems with this project.

Notice in this first screen capture several things:

• The title in the blue window bar.
• The introduction that displays in the reading panel when you first open these helps.
• The book and topic icons in the TOC panel.
• The hypertext links on the bulleted list in the reading panel.
• The pop-up box that displays when you click "highlighting."
• The link on "highlighting" in the note that takes you to www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/high.html.
• The use of 10-point Arial font for body text, and 14-point bold blue Arial for headings.

Opening screen.

In this next topic, notice the following;

• The pop-up box for "commands."
• The use of blue italic run-in labels for the bulleted items.
• The indentation of the examples after every bulleted list item.
• The use of 9-point Courier New in the indented examples.
• The related links button which for each topic (except the introduction) provides links to the other two topics.

Topic screen.

Here is the rest of the text for this project. Remember that if you down the .chm file, you can copy the text directly from the displayed helps.

Text for the other topic screens.

To see how others in this course are doing on this project and what problems, questions, or great ideas they have:

• Visit the chatroom area for the help-modeling project. There's no guarantee anyone will be there, but perhaps you can ask your instructor to set up some times.
• Post comments on your progress, problems, breakthroughs on the help-modeling project bulletin board, and see what others are posting.

Unit evaluation: Use the unit evaluation form to give your opinions on the effectiveness of the study materials and organization of this unit. (This evaluation is strictly optional, strictly voluntary.)

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