Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 7 HTML

Description

The Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 7 HTML is an instructor-led training course that will have you creating your own HTML Help systems (complete with topics, books, links, tables, forms, glossaries, frames, skins, templates, DHTML, cascading style sheets and more) within three days. RoboHelp 7 HTML has the letters HTML in its name; therefore, many people think that RoboHelp HTML is strictly an HTML authoring tool - it is not. Although you can create terrific web sites with RoboHelp HTML, its primary mission is to let you quickly and easily create Help systems.

Audience

RoboHelp is the industry standard for Help authoring. It's the preferred program if you are a Help author, technical writer or programmer tasked with creating Help systems for desktop or Web-based applications. To get the most out of this Adobe Flash course, you should:

Be familiar with using a Windows-based computer.
Be comfortable using the Internet with Internet Explorer.
Familiarity with other browsers is a plus.
A basic understanding of HTML and design and media applications such a Photoshop and Illustrator.

Course Length

3 Days

Course Outline

Unit 1: Introduction to RoboHelp 7 HTML

Create an HTML help project
Explore the pods
Explore the toolbars
Load the default environment
Save an environment
Retitle and rename the project
Edit a topic
Edit a topic headline
Rename and delete topics
Create a TOC book
Add, delete and rename TOC books
Move TOC books
Add pages to TOC books
Generate a project

Unit 2: Topic Formatting

Create a WebHelp project
Import an HTML file
Import a Word document
Import a FrameMaker document
Rename topic titles
Create project folders
Auto-create a TOC
Apply a style sheet to a topic
Apply styles to selected paragraphs
Create a new style sheet
Create a font set
Use inline styles
Use spell check
Use the multi-file find and replace utility
Generate 508 and W3C compliant WebHelp

Unit 4: Graphics and Multimedia

Add graphics to a help project
Change image margins
Rename an image
Add a background image
Add hotspots to a graphic
Add sound to a topic
Import and format topics
Insert an Adobe Captivate Demo
Create a screen capture using RoboScreenCapture
Mid-course quiz and project

Unit 5: Build Tags, Variables and Snippets

Create conditional build tags
Define a build tag expression
Create a new table of contents
Create a variable
Insert and edit a variable
Create a snippet
Add a snippet to a topic

Unit 6: Tables and DHTML

Insert a table
Format a table
Add a horizontal line
Insert a symbol
Add a bulleted list
Format a heading with a fade in DHTML effect
Apply fly in DHTML effects
Work with positioned text boxes
Create a trigger

Unit 7: Indexes, Glossaries, Printed Docs and PDFs

Run the Smart Index Wizard
Remove and add index entries
Add keywords via topic properties
Add subkeywords to the index
Create a see also keyword
Insert a link control
Add glossary terms
Generate a report
Generate printed documentation
Generate a PDF

Unit 8: Forms and Frames

Insert a form
Add form radio buttons
Add HTML code to a topic
Add a form check box
Insert a drop-down menu into a form
Add a multi-line text field to a form
Add form submit and reset buttons
Name a form and set an action
Import HTML files
Create a frameset
Modify frameset attributes
Link topics into frameset regions

Unit 9: Skins and Templates

Use a skin
Create a custom skin
Publish a project
Create a topic template
Edit a template

Unit 10: Windows, Browsing and Help

Create a custom window
Create a browse sequence
Review a web application's source code
Publish a WebHelp project
Review CSH source code
Create a custom WebHelp window
Create a map file and assign map ID's