Welcome to “HelpNDoc Insights and Articles”, your dedicated hub for all things related to HelpNDoc, presented in thoughtful, in-depth articles. Here, we explore the breadth and depth of the software, shedding light on its features, offering tips and tricks, and providing insights on how to best leverage HelpNDoc to create compelling and comprehensive documentation. Our articles range from beginner’s guides and how-tos to expert advice and deep dives into advanced features. For those who prefer a more hands-on learning experience, we have a series of step-by-step guides available both as easy-to-follow text and engaging video content. Whether you’re a first-time user or an experienced documentation specialist, our goal is to empower you with knowledge and inspire you to make the most of HelpNDoc. Dive in to discover, learn, and enhance your understanding of this powerful tool.
Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google which can track various anonymous information about users visiting a web-site, such as which page have many views and for how long. It can generate many detailed reports on how those users behaved and is a key tool to understand the audience needs and expectations from any online material. Integrating Google Analytics into an HTML documentation is very useful to gain precise knowledge of what viewers were searching for and can be easily done with HelpNDoc’s powerful template system.
When HelpNDoc generates an HTML documentation, the usual process is to generate it to a local disk drive, review it, then upload it to the web-server where it will be accessible for the end-user. However, when testing the locally generated documentation using Microsoft Internet Explorer, you might notice a broken tables of contents at first, as well as a notification message at the top of the screen mentioning that "To help protect you security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer. Click here for options..." as shown on the following screen-shot
A new review from George Norman at FindMySoft.com finds HelpNDoc powerful, easy and safe to install. "If you decide to download and install the IBE Software-developed application HelpNDoc on your system, you will enjoy the functionality of an easy to use, powerful and intuitive tool to create help files" says the review before pointing out that HelpNDoc is "free of charge. This means you can get HelpNDoc, enjoy the functionality it provides, and keep your hard earned money in your pocket"
Using the Freeware Edition of HelpNDoc, you can create a Compiled HTML Help Format (CHM) table of contents in a mater of seconds, either by freely typing it, importing one from an existing CHM help file or using HelpNDoc's interface to position the topics. This article presents the steps involved to easily and rapidly create a complete and structured table of content for your documentations
The HelpNDoc help authoring environment can export flash SWF and FLV files in the generated CHM and HTML documentation. To do so, Flash files must first be included in HelpNDoc's library, a placeholder for various files related to your documentation, then inserted in one or multiple help topics
DownloadTube.com has been kind enough to produce a HelpNDoc video tutorial, or trailer as they call it, which takes the user through the installation process, creation of a new project, definition of this project's options, creation of new topics... up to the generation and visualization of the generated HTML help and PDF documentation
The generated CHM window can be heavily personalized from the window part of the project options. This article goes through the window's size and position, the visible buttons on the toolbar, the personalization of the navigation pane as well as other customizable settings
Linking to a specific topic in the HTML generated help is as easy as linking to a file named by its topics ID and placed under the "files" sub-directory of the generated content
