We’ve been setting our staff the challenge of using some of the popular Help Authoring tools to create online company documents. We asked them to make some notes on the applications they used. Here are some of the notes relating to MadCap Flare 2017: “You soon become aware it’s a really powerful tool. Is this actually a… Read more »
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Using RoboHelp 2017 for company procedures – Quick review
We’ve been setting our staff the challenge of using some of the popular Help Authoring tools to create online company documents. We asked them to make some notes on the applications they used. Here are some of the notes relating to RoboHelp 2017: “Straightforward to use. Easy to import the content. The responsive web templates supplied with… Read more »
Staff handbook written in Word and converted to a responsive Web layout
In recent posts, we’ve been describing different ways to publish policy and procedure documents online. Here’s an example of a staff handbook that has been converted from Word to a responsive web layout. The home page provides links to the main sections in the handbook. In this example, we also changed many of the sentences… Read more »
Converting policy documents written in Word to HTML – Example
In recent posts, we’ve been describing the different ways to publish policy and procedure documents online. Often, organisations want to write their content in Microsoft Word, as staff are familiar with the application. However, they also want a very nice, and usable, online version. Here’s an example of a direct conversion from Word to HTML. Before… Read more »
Management processes example
We’ve been asked by a client to put together some proof of concepts for policies and procedures guides. The XYZ Management Guide contains diagrams with “hotspots”. You can click on parts of the images and jump to further information about a particular process or role.