RE: [Dnfbb-developers] Help

[Bosanquet, S. <sim...@tr...>]

Si,

I agree about the help implementation.  I like the idea of having the
information dynamic and the idea of have a simple/easy to maintain web
control.

I think putting it at the bottom could work but depending on the layout
we might find it is easier to read putting it on say the right hand side
of the screen.  I know we could loose some of the screen real-estate but
it might flow better when trying to work out how the help relates to the
forum layout etc...

As you say, another option would be to generate a second window which
could contain the dynamically generated help document?  I am not sure if
I like this but it is another possibility.  It gets tricky for some
novice users when popups etc get blocked so no help would appear etc...

I like the idea of being able to get a master help from the dnfbb home
page but I think this cannot be the only method as some people would
want to customize their own help files etc...  Maybe you could do
something to give them the option of either method.

Just a few comments/thoughts for you to bounce back at me...

Later,

Simon

-----Original Message-----
From: dnf...@li...
[mailto:dnf...@li...] On Behalf Of Si
Carter
Sent: 10 March 2006 15:37
To: dnf...@li...
Subject: [Dnfbb-developers] Help

I have been thinking about the help that will be provided to users, what
I
was thinking was:

Each page would have a link to "Show Help"
If selected then a web control, will be shown at the bottom of the page,
with page specific help.

This would allow us to have dynamically linked help on each page, each
help
section would be a single web control which should make
updating/maintaining
very easy.

If anyone has any suggestions, comments or recommendations about this
method
then please shout, if I hear nothing to the contrary I will begin
implementing this method.  Other alternatives could include a pop up
window
with page specific help or a link to online help which will be
maintained on
the dnfbb home page.

Any thoughts welcome

Rgds

Si



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