Re: Help Book
Re: Help Book
- Subject: Re: Help Book
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:58:45 -0600
On Nov 12, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:09:12 -0600, Luther Fuller <email@hidden
>
said:
iWeb seems to have some peculiarities, but I think I can design a
Help
Book with it. After a couple of hours, I finally discovered why I
can't delete the #@%$! navigation menu, but I can turn it off. One of
the peculiarities is that iWeb does not seem to know anything about a
source document for a site. I had to create an "iWeb Domain" document
and iWeb gets confused and may open this document incorrectly if you
just launch iWeb. So I make sure I double-click the domain.
In the talk that I gave at the WritersUA Conference in Portland,
Oregon on
how to create a Help Book, I did in fact use iWeb to generate the
help, just
to see if it could be done - really this was kind of a joke, though.
I also looked into RapidWeaver. I still have not been able to create
a text box in RapidWeaver, however. I have also downloaded a copy of
Sandvox, but haven't looked into it, yet.
I have a dotMac site created with HomePage that has Download buttons.
It also looks like crap. I have considered using iWeb for my dotMac
web site, but so far, I have not been able to do what should be really
easy in iWeb ... construct a Download button. I don't even know what
to look-up that will tell me what's required to construct a Download
button ... and I've tried.
Unless
you are totally unwilling to learn any HTML whatever, or you are
making a
genuine dot-Mac iWeb site, I would avoid iWeb if I were you. All my
Help
Books (and I write them professionally) are made with RubyFrontier,
a tool
of my own devising. But anything that makes real HTML will do.
As for html coding ... it can't possibly be harder than TeX and I'll
use it if necessary. It just doesn't seem necessary at the moment. I'm
getting very nice results writing my Help Book in iWeb. No joke.
You can listen to a recording of my talk, and/or view the slides;
there is a
link here (scroll down to "Developing Help for the Mac"):
http://www.tidbits.com/matt/cv/computercareer.html#lec
I've also noticed that some of the features available via iWeb work
in
Safari, but not in Help Viewer.
Oh, I don't think I believe that one. WebKit is WebKit. In fact, you
have it
backwards; Help Viewer can do *more* (like, as I demonstrate in my
talk, the
user can click a link that runs an AppleScript - can't do that in
Safari).
The feature I was referring to was properties of hyperlinks in iWeb.
Underlining on mouse roll-over, for example. I'll take another look at
that.
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