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If that rule was taken to heart, my apologies. That
was a younger, less experienced Bill Swallow (who was
perhaps over-influenced by a company who really didn't
know anything about online help development).
Could it take 4-6 hours per Help topic? Sure. Should
it? Hopefully not.
That range includes the time to do all of the
following:
* develop content
* proof content
* crete the topic
* link it into the Help system
* test it
* fix if needed
Considering the tools I was using and how I was
getting content for the Help, I think 4-6 hours might
have been on the money. But, now that I'm
single-sourcing all of my content to Help, and now
that I do this without having to manually mess around
with the Help, my Help authoring time is down to less
than 1 hour per topic (sometimes several per hour).
> I AM the editor, I was thinking of 30 minutes per
> page. But, Bill, that
> online help guideline was proposed by you on the
> WinHelp list serv
> several moons ago. Its always stuck in my head, so I
> thought there may
> be a rule for editing.
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Bill Swallow
Technical Writer
PowerAdz.com
518.687.6107
bswallow -at- poweradz -dot- com
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