Microsoft Windows 95 Help Authoring Kit

The Microsoft Windows 95 Help Authoring Kit is an invaluable source for beginning and veteran Help authors, providing all the information and software needed to create online Help files for Windows 95 applications (also for earlier versions of Windows and for Windows NT version 3.51 or later). This comprehensive, easy-to-use kit is brought to you by the team that created online Help for Windows 95. The book is packed with valuable information that reflects hours of usability testing and research. The enclosed CD-ROM contains Help Workshop, formerly known as Help Compiler. Help Workshop introduces a new graphical user interface that makes creating and compiling Help files easier and faster than ever before.

If you are a developer or a Web site administrator, the Official Microsoft HTML Help Authoring Kit will make it easy for you to provide integrated Help systems that can be delivered via the World Wide Web or a corporate intranet. This book also contains essential Microsoft tools for software developers who are moving Help systems to distributed environments and those who need to maintain their Help systems in a central location. The Official Microsoft HTML Help Authoring Kit gives you a crash course in authoring with HTML Help and then provides the details you need to refine your system. If you already have experience with Help systems, such as those created with Windows Help, the book provides valuable contextual clues and parallel procedures to help you convert Windows Help files to HTML Help.

Windows 95 has a new & much improved Help Engine. Until now, there has been little information available covering this important new component. MASTERING WINDOWS 95 HELP describes the new Help Engine & tells how Help Authors can move their Windows 3.x Help systems to Windows 95. Help Authors, Technical Writers, & Windows 95 application developers will all benefit from this book. Microsoft Corporation, the creator of the Windows 95 operating system, has reviewed & approved the outline of the book. MASTERING WINDOWS 95 HELP provides the reader with an overview of the changes Windows 95 will have on existing Help systems. The book contains many screen shots, graphically illustrating the differences between Windows 3.x & Windows 95 Help & gives an in-depth look at how to create Windows 95 Help systems. Chapters include: Overview of Windows 95 Help, Moving to Windows 95 Help Without Compiling, Moving to Windows 95 Help & Recompiling, Tips from Industry Experts, Context-Sensitive Help. Tips from Industry Experts contains sections titled Customizing the Help Interface, Using Shortcut Buttons, Making Associative Topic Jumps, & Using Multimedia; also included: a Glossary & an Appendix. Blue Sky Software Corporation, Phone: (619) 459-6365, FAX: (619) 459-6366.

A comprehensive, professional-level reference on building Windows 95 Help systems and other interactive on-line documentation. The CD-ROM included with the book provides many example Help systems and templates which are illustrated in the text. In addition, the multimedia source material is included which can be used for testing and creating new multimedia applications.

If you confront common coding problems or want to learn by example the tremendous capabilities of Visual Basic, you've come to the right book. This is the newly expanded and updated fifth edition of the classic, for everyone from advanced students and intermediate programmers to corporate developers and consultants. As usual, John Craig and co-author Jeff Webb lead you through the exciting new possibilities of the latest version of Visual Basic, with special emphasis on the hot topics of Internet development and data access models. Here's the help you need in the shape you want. You get a ton of code samples covering an inviting assortment of topics, clear and direct answers to a host of common programming problems, and adventures into the most exciting possibilities of the newest version of Visual Basic. If you use Visual Basic, you'll want the newest edition of this essential cookbook.

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Translation technology has evolved quickly with a large number of translation tools available. In this revised addition, much content has been added about translating and engineering HTML and XML documents, multilingual web sites, and HTML-based online help systems. Other major changes include the addition of chapters on internationalizatoi, software quailty assurance, descktop publishing and localization supprort. There is a focus on translators who want to learn about localization ad translation technology.