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Better UX through Better UA - The Conference for User Assistance

We thought you might be interested to know that WritersUA, which specializes in providing quality training and publications for the community of user assistance professionals, is planning it's next conference for software user assistance on March 11-14, 2012 in Memphis, Tennessee. The focus of the conference is on developing the best possible user experience for all types of software applications through well-designed interfaces and helpful and accessible support information and is featuring 35 of the top experts in the user assistance field.

Posted on Jan 20th, 2012 -

JQuery mobile HTML template and extended table of contents are available in HelpNDoc 3.3

A new version of HelpNDoc has just been released for download and features many additions and bug fixes. This new version 3.3 includes new features such as a JQuery mobile template or the reintroduction of the extended table of contents, as well as many bug fixes and enhancements.

Posted on Jan 12th, 2012 -

Generate touch-optimized documentation with the JQuery Mobile framework

We created a new HTML5 template based on the JQuery Mobile framework for the next version of HelpNDoc and we didn't see any reason not to release it before as it is compatible with any version of HelpNDoc 3. So if you don't want to wait, you can download the new HTML template and read on for more information and installation instruction.

Posted on Dec 8th, 2011 -

60% Discount today only (December 5, 2011) on HelpNDoc Professional Edition

Edit 2: The promotion is now over. Thank you to all who participated.

Edit: We are glad to announce that the 60% discount on HelpNDoc Professional Edition has been extended for 24 more hours!

Posted on Dec 5th, 2011 -

Add a table of contents to PDF and Word documents with HelpNDoc 3.2

A new version of HelpNDoc has just been released for download and features many additions and bug fixes. This new version 3.2 introduces two of the most requested features: the possibility to generate a table of contents with page numbers in Word and PDF documents and a way to clean the CHM output directory after generation.

Posted on Nov 8th, 2011 -

Reduced documentation size and new table tools available in HelpNDoc 3.1

This is with great pleasure that we announce the immediate availability of HelpNDoc 3.1 which can be downloaded and used freely for personal and evaluation purposes or ordered at a reduced price for a few days only!

Posted on Sep 26th, 2011 -

Command line and performance improvements available in HelpNDoc 3.0.2

This is with great pleasure that we announce the immediate availability of a maintenance release: HelpNDoc 3.0.2 HelpNDoc keeps getting better and better and this new version brings back the command line compiler (to silently generate documentation from the command line), and due to popular demand, the ruler (which can be activated from the options dialog) which were not available in earlier versions of HelpNDoc 3. This new version also greatly improves performance while using and scrolling through the table of contents hierarchy, and provides various bug fixes and documentation enhancements.
Posted on Sep 6th, 2011 -

Better Internet Explorer compatibility and CHM import in HelpNDoc 3.0.1

HelpNDoc 3.0.1 is available for immediate download and is essentially a bug fix for the recent HelpNDoc 3 release. This new version fixes problems with Internet Explorer 7 and 8 in the generated HTML documentation, with project handling in some cases and reduces memory consumption, amongst other fixes. You can download HelpNDoc 3.0.1 Personal Edition now to benefit from the fixes. Update: Version 3.0.1.14 fixes the lack of footers in HTML/CHM documentation.
Posted on Aug 30th, 2011

Add Google Analytics to your online HTML documentation to track page views

Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google which can track various anonymous information about users visiting a web-site, such as which page hava many viewed and for how long. It can generate many detailed reports on how those users behaved and is a key tool to understand the audience needs and expectations from any online material. Integrating Google Analytics into an HTML documentation is very useful to gain precise knowledge of what viewers were searching for and can be easily done with HelpNDoc's powerful template system.

Posted on Aug 29th, 2011 -

HelpNDoc 3 is available: IPhone website, styles, template system, media library and more

This is with great pleasure that we announce the immediate availability of HelpNDoc 3.0 which can be downloaded and used freely for personal and evaluation purposes. Have a look at the feature tour page to have an overall look of all the new and updated features of HelpNDoc 3.

Posted on Aug 23rd, 2011 -