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Flarestrap is the SEO for Madcap Flare project I shared about a year ago when we did the project showcase webinar featuring Bomgar's docs site . Here are the slides from that webinar .

Anyway, I'm updating the core Flarestrap project to make things easier for us with our own webhelp. There are tons ...

Thank you, Shawn. We recently rebuilt our support docs site . This time around, I used Bootstrap to build our masterpages. The modal with the email thingy is using Bootstrap + Feedburner. Feedburner basically takes the RSS feed from our changelog and sends an email to folks whenever it's updated ...

I'll be talking about this in an upcoming webinar. It may interest y'all to attend: https://www.madcapsoftware.com/demos/si ... 1111021845.

But I can also understand that somebody who makes a living from SEO thinks it's necessary. :wink:

I'm implemented the webhelp when I was an employee. I assume the suspicious tone is due to the fact that I changed my signature yesterday. Oh well.

When we wanted to make the webhelp findable, our ...

So sorry for the delayed answer.

The menu at the top is a simply a Flare snippet. I simply followed the tutorial here - http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html-css-techniques/how-to-build-a-kick-butt-css3-mega-drop-down-menu/ - to create the dropdown, then turned it into a snippet and embedded it ...

Thanks for the empathy, Nita. I believe I've worked it out now. We're using Tortoise SVN for source control. For each Lingo project we have these files and folders committed. Maybe this will help you.

/Translation Project
/Language1.liprjf
/Source
/Content
/Project
/file.flprj

/Target ...

I guess nobody else is doing a translation project at the moment, huh?

Here's a link to our new webhelp section. Look around and see if it gives you any ideas.

In Flare you can choose to not include a topic in the search results, which obviously wouldn't apply to search engines. I'd just have to generate a list of these 'excluded' topics and add them to the robots file; thankfully I don't have very many.

Yeah, that's true for Flare's search engine ...

Inserting a topic with the TOC in it is not a bad idea. The challenge would be helping the search engines to find that page.

Probably the best thing you can do is create an xml sitemap that list all the pages in your Webhelp that you want Google et. al. to crawl. This is also the lowest hanging ...

I'd love some advice on what should/shouldn't go under source control within a Lingo project. I had everything safely under source control, but doing a project update to bring in changes from the original English project introduced a number of conflicts.

What folders/files should be included in ...

I'm getting the same error. I wish the error messages could be tied to what's triggering them somehow.

Mr. Entropy,
I'll post something on the forums here once we're finished working on it. Here's a hint about what we're doing though.

After doing the xml sitemap test on the Knowledgebase [http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/], we then generated a sitemap starting from http://kb.madcapsoftware.com/mobile ...

Search engine optimization for webhelp is a big concern of ours, too. We're in the process of building out a search engine friendly Flare output. I posted a bit on the issue in the forums over here: WebHelp and Search Engine Optimization. I'll write a post soon when we have it ready.

The Ctrl+A procedure didn't work for me. It may be because I'm on Word 2010. However, I was able to embed the images in the file by doing the following.

1. I went to the File > Info tab. On the bottom-right of that panel is an option to "Edit Links to Files." Select that.
http://forums ...

So does it create an swf or flv?

Has anyone else come across this error in Lingo 4? I'm on Win 7 64-bit. I can navigate to the file in Windows explorer, but Lingo can't apparently.

You aren't using a WebHelp Mobile output are you?
The WebHelp Mobile output has quite a major defect with regards to stylesheets, and can completely mess up your stylesheet (in the output).

What is the major defect?

It would help immensely if the error message told you which object it is your referencing.

Search engine optimization for webhelp may be one of the most important topics in this forum, I think. Most customers are going to start looking for help on Google, not in the search panel in Flare. You can have the best help on the planet, but you’ll only frustrate customers if they can’t find ...

Is there a way to automatically pull in the Alt text and make it the image caption?

nfberg, Did you ever find a way to do this?