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> I've looked at AuthorIT, though I haven't tried it. It looks to me like it's
> intended to publish help that will be distributed with an application and
> stored on the local drive.
You can use AuthorIT to produce HTML 3.2 and XHTML 1.0 (in addition to several
other formats).
> All the applications I'm writing for are web-based, and the help needs to be
> too.
AuthorIT's output includes the navigation pane on the left for the TOC, Index,
and optional Search tabs.
> I've also seen recommendations for Dreamweaver/Devahelp and I'm curious
> about how that works. Is it the design tool, Devahelp the compiler, and some
> other app (Word or something) where you actually write? I used Dreamweaver 2
> and was frustrated by its instability. I'm sure that's much improved now,
> but I still think of it much more as a web _design_ tool, than an authoring
> environment. Has it changed that much? Although one of my complaints about
> Sevensteps is lack of design control, I don't need much. I just want to
> create one template that fits our "look" and never change it again.
You use Dreamweaver for the HTML files and Deva for the navigation (TOC, Index,
and Search). DW is an HTML editor, but can be used as an authoring environment
(much like other tools that let you edit one topic at a time).
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