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Subject:user guide or help From:"Sporleder, Kevin" <kevinsp -at- CRT -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Jan 1998 16:06:00 CST
If you create a user guide as www documentation that will be accessible from
a web application (a help button), should the documentation be called "Help"
or would you still use the words "User Guide." For example, a paper-based
document might be called "XYZ Application User Guide." If you reformatted
the documentation to be accessible from a www application, would you change
the title to "XYZ Help"? The information is pretty much the same that would
be in a manual, only reformatted for online reading and navigating.
By the way, the Help button on every page in the web application will go to
the same contents page for the documentation.
