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Mission Training presents a summer Help development seminar
"Conversations with an Application: Implementing and Managing Help
System Development"
A seminar for project managers, Help developers, and application
developers.
Presenter: Nancy Hickman, author of Building Windows 95 Help
Date: July 11, 1997
9:00 to 5:00
registration begins at 8:30
Location: University of Kansas Regents Center, Kansas City, KS
Getting a Help system and an application to talk and work together is
often a challange during any development effort. To enable Help systems
to talk with applications, your project team must analyze their needs
and meet some requirements. In this seminar, we'll talk about those
requirements as well as how new Help system technologies can
affect your current and future projects. The information you'll gain
from this seminar will make your development cycles more managable and
predictable.
Key Topics:
Scoping project requirements
Analyzing the requirements for context sensitive Help
Efficient Help system planning for the entire project team
Adding Help support in an application
Creating builds and installations
Understanding the impact of HTML Help and Netscape's NetHelp
Mixing different versions of Windows and web Help systems
This seminar provides interactive lab exercises. Computers will be
provided.
Fee: $350
For more information or to register call 913-491-9671 or email the
instructor at nhickman -at- gvi -dot- net -dot- Travel arrangements may be made through
Travel House at 913-451-3443.
About the speaker
Nancy Hickman is the author of Building Windows 95 Help published by M&T
books. She has contributed articles on current techinical issues to such
publications as ComputerWorld, Software and Design, ActiveX and Java
Advisor, and Web Techniques. Since 1986, she has designed and developed
various sorts of user assistance for applications in the Windows, OS/2,
Macintosh, and Motif environments. She has worked for industry leaders
such as American Airlines, IBM, and Informix, and she has been
privileged to work with the most creative people in the community.
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