Flare in Action!
Thanks mate
I appreciate your feedback and response. I like the look. I wish i was more apt at code to fancify some items.
thanks again.
jC
thanks again.
jC
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Re: Flare in Action!
I posted this in another thread, so sorry for the double post, but I thought the post ought to be here too...
So there you have it. Another example of Flare in action.doc_guy wrote:If you're interested, today I published a new version of my online writing portfolio using Flare as the back end and a Flare WebHelp target. I'd previously used WordPress for my back end, but recently decided to switch that out for Flare.
My portfolio is located here:
http://www.paulpehrson.com
I blogged a little bit about the change here:
http://blog.paulpehrson.com/2008/01/18/ ... ing-flare/
Hope you don't mind me tooting my own horn a bit, but I thought you might be interested in seeing a non-conventional use for Flare.
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Re: Flare in Action!
Wimba Uses Flare for the Webhelp systems and PDF's You can visit thier site at the following link
http://www.wimba.com/support/docs.php
Or go stratight to a few of their webhelp systems
http://www.wimba.com/webhelp/v5_0/LCPre ... _Guide.htm
or
http://www.wimba.com/support/pronto/web ... o_User.htm
or
http://www.wimba.com/support/voicetools ... rGuide.htm
http://www.wimba.com/support/docs.php
Or go stratight to a few of their webhelp systems
http://www.wimba.com/webhelp/v5_0/LCPre ... _Guide.htm
or
http://www.wimba.com/support/pronto/web ... o_User.htm
or
http://www.wimba.com/support/voicetools ... rGuide.htm
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Re: Flare in Action!
Sketchup by Google uses Flare !
to generate PDF and Webhelp. Amazing
http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/ ... suwin.html
to generate PDF and Webhelp. Amazing
http://download.sketchup.com/OnlineDoc/ ... suwin.html
If you submit your bug feedback request here, the more likely it'll get fixed or included in a future release
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Re: Flare in Action!
Here something that is more in line with the topic. I had to look something up while working on my time sheet and I consulted the help of our AutoTask system. The help looked very familiar. See for yourself here.
New Book: Creating user-friendly Online Help
Paperback http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449952038/ or https://www.createspace.com/3416509
eBook http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005XB9E3U
Paperback http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449952038/ or https://www.createspace.com/3416509
eBook http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005XB9E3U
Flare in Action!
Realplayer uses webhelp
http://i.realone.com/product/help/rp11/en/R1P.htm
http://i.realone.com/product/help/rp11/en/R1P.htm
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Re: Flare in Action!
A superb site and working example of Flare and all the various custom knowledgebase components put into service.
There's quite a bit of advanced HTML/Styling going on with extensive use of DIVs
You have :
- custom mailto buttons.
- Custom TOC icons.
- javascript popup topic feedback/rating pages
- Custom styles for code keywords
- Sidebars for note pullouts, are highlighted in a box with a Note icon
Salesforce uses Flare!
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/ ... /index.htm
There's quite a bit of advanced HTML/Styling going on with extensive use of DIVs
You have :
- custom mailto buttons.
- Custom TOC icons.
- javascript popup topic feedback/rating pages
- Custom styles for code keywords
- Sidebars for note pullouts, are highlighted in a box with a Note icon
Salesforce uses Flare!
http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/ ... /index.htm
If you submit your bug feedback request here, the more likely it'll get fixed or included in a future release
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Re: Flare in Action!
That is a very nice site. Nice color scheme, and I love the Note DIV.forfear wrote:Salesforce uses Flare! http://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/ ... /index.htm
Kudos to whomever did that site.
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Re: Flare in Action!
Here's my first stab at WebHelp. I just started using Flare about a month ago, so be gentle!
http://www.ciscopartnertalentnetwork.co ... efault.htm
I'm happy to report that Flare was very easy to start using. I also made recruiter and administrator versions of the help, using conditional tags.
I intentionally made it very granular (you might notice most of the topics are very short). I expect a lot of users will use the search feature, plus I wanted the help to be very modular so we could provide in-context links to it.
Thanks to Lacastle for helping me synch the TOC to the open topic and create "outdented" headings! (Those changes will be deployed soon if they're not already.)
EDIT (11/10/08): Fixed link. We had to redo our directory structure, so the path had changed.
http://www.ciscopartnertalentnetwork.co ... efault.htm
I'm happy to report that Flare was very easy to start using. I also made recruiter and administrator versions of the help, using conditional tags.
I intentionally made it very granular (you might notice most of the topics are very short). I expect a lot of users will use the search feature, plus I wanted the help to be very modular so we could provide in-context links to it.
Thanks to Lacastle for helping me synch the TOC to the open topic and create "outdented" headings! (Those changes will be deployed soon if they're not already.)
EDIT (11/10/08): Fixed link. We had to redo our directory structure, so the path had changed.
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Re: Flare in Action!
Looks good
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Re: Flare in Action!
Thanks! After reviewing the previous posts here, I made some revisions to the skin and stylesheet over the past few weeks. I think it looks a lot better now.SteveS wrote:Looks good
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Re: Flare in Action!
encouraging
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Re: Flare in Action!
Add your Website using Flare Output and Get a Free Madcap Software T-shirt!
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Re: Flare in Action!
We just released our first product to use WebHelp last week. The help isn't available online though, it is run from a server that's part of the product. It replaces a set of dated and clunky CHMs, and it has had a great reception so far. I've used a lot of other authoring tools, and I can't imagine I would've been able to produce help like this using anything else.
Re: Flare in Action!
Very nice looking help, Dave. Well laid out, nice colors, and icons (especially the bullets). Although you spelled "Favorites" wrong.
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Re: Flare in Action!
Thanks.LTinker68 wrote:Very nice looking help, Dave. Well laid out, nice colors, and icons (especially the bullets). Although you spelled "Favorites" wrong. :P
You spelt colours wrong. :o)
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Re: Flare in Action!
Settle down, folks: I don't want to have to separate ya'll if the topic of where end punctuation goes in relation to quotation marks comes up....
(And very nice looking help, Dave.)
(And very nice looking help, Dave.)
Until next time....
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Re: Flare in Action!
Nice looking help indeed...and btw, I'm with Dave. When writing in English use proper English.
New Book: Creating user-friendly Online Help
Paperback http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449952038/ or https://www.createspace.com/3416509
eBook http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005XB9E3U
Paperback http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449952038/ or https://www.createspace.com/3416509
eBook http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005XB9E3U
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Re: Flare in Action!
Which version, though? UK English, US English, or Canadian (aka "real") EnglishRamonS wrote:Nice looking help indeed...and btw, I'm with Dave. When writing in English use proper English.
Until next time....
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Canadian is Frog English.
New Book: Creating user-friendly Online Help
Paperback http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449952038/ or https://www.createspace.com/3416509
eBook http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005XB9E3U
Paperback http://www.amazon.com/dp/1449952038/ or https://www.createspace.com/3416509
eBook http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005XB9E3U
Re: Flare in Action!
The nicest help i've seen in awhile after the salesforce one. so many questions, how do you do that related sections thing. is that a dynamic component or is that linked manually. defintely not built with See Also controls are they?
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forfear wrote:The nicest help i've seen in awhile after the salesforce one. so many questions, how do you do that related sections thing. is that a dynamic component or is that linked manually. defintely not built with See Also controls are they?
The "In this section" box is the miniTOC, the "See also" box is a div that I add manually to the topic.
Re: Flare in Action!
Dave,
The "Welcome" page is exactly the kind of thing I want to do in the Help I work with. I'm wondering if you did it by adding a background image to the page and then a table with the options or if you had to program it in any special way?
Thanks.
The "Welcome" page is exactly the kind of thing I want to do in the Help I work with. I'm wondering if you did it by adding a background image to the page and then a table with the options or if you had to program it in any special way?
Thanks.
Lucia
Re: Flare in Action!
The background image is set in a master page, using a body class. The master page contains a div tag (set to be semi-transparent), and this div contains the topic body. Then I just set any 'special' topics to use this master page.Lucia wrote:Dave,
The "Welcome" page is exactly the kind of thing I want to do in the Help I work with. I'm wondering if you did it by adding a background image to the page and then a table with the options or if you had to program it in any special way?
Thanks.
1. Copy and paste these styles into your stylesheet.
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html.startPage
{
mc-master-page: url('../MasterPages/Start.flmsp');
}
body.startPage
{
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
background-image: url('../Images/StartBackground.png');
background-position: left bottom;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-attachment: fixed;
}
div.startPage
{
background-color: #ffffff;
filter: alpha(opacity=95);
opacity: 0.95;
padding-left: 10px;
padding-right: 10px;
padding-top: 10px;
padding-bottom: 10px;
border-color: #c0c0c0;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
width: 85%;
margin-left: 5%;
margin-top: 5%;
margin-right: 5%;
}
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<body class="startPage">
<div class="startPage">
<MadCap:bodyProxy />
</div>
</body>
4. To apply the 'page style' to a topic, open the topic properties and set the Topic Style Class to start.