Re: Creating Tutorials

Subject: Re: Creating Tutorials
From: Glen Warner <gdwarner -at- ricochet -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 00:34:24 -0700

"David Demyan" <dbdemyan -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net> wrote:

> Steve said...
> One of my first assignments at my new job is to create an online tutorial
> for a "Try and Buy" version of the software. They want the tutorial to
> remain "always on top" and guide the user through several sample
scenarios
> (the software will have most of its functionality turned on). I've
created
> Flash product demos and online Help systems in the past but nothing like
> this. What are the usual authoring tools for this? Time and money may
be a
> factor, but I don't know enough yet to evaluate that.

Shouldn't you be able to do this in the Microsoft HTML Help Workshop,
or RoboHelp? I recall seeing a setting in one of these for a floating
window, or something similar ....
>
> I was thinking that perhaps some sort of Wizard might serve the
purpose--I
> have an evaluation version of a wizard creator from Coyote Software but I
> haven't been able to try it yet. Or is there anyway to use online Help
for
> the job?

This sounds like it might do the trick, if designed properly. However, as
the Wizard creator is a demo, your final product might have something
like "CREATED BY A DEMO OF COYOTE SOFTWARE'S WIZARD MATRIX BECAUSE DAVID
DEMYAN DIDN'T PAY FOR THE FULL VERSION" stamped all over it.

This would be a Bad Thing(tm).

(*snip*)

--gdw

> Dave Demyan

"The four food groups? Sure I remember. They are 'Order Out,' 'Take-in,'
'Frozen,' and 'Canned.'"
--D.D. McCall


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