Online Help Conferences

European Online Help Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland · September 18th - 19th, 2008

This year's Conference takes place in the historic and vibrant city of Edinburgh, Scotland.

European Online Help Conference

2008 WritersUA Conference Announced · March 16-19, 2008

The Sixteenth Annual WritersUA Conference for Software User Assistance took place from March 16 to 19 in Portland, Oregon.

2008 WritersUA Conference

Australasian Online Documentation and Content Conference - 14th - 16th May 20, 2008

The eleventh annual Australasian Online Documentation and Content Conference, AODC 2008, was held at the Mantra Legends Hotel on Queensland's Gold Coast from Wednesday 14th to Friday 16th May. AODC is the event of the year for anyone involved in corporate documentation, online Help, Web authoring and technical writing.

Australasian Online Documentation Conference

News Groups

TECHWR-L · Articles, topic summaries and examples to help you get started in technical writing. And probably the largest mailing list for technical writers on the Internet.

HATT · Yahoo list for help authors
This list is for online help authors to share information about online help tools and techniques.

microsoft.public.helpauthoring
Winhelp & HTML HELP related news group.

Articles

Microsoft Design Specifications for User Assistance
Read what Microsoft says about electronic user assistance and online help, now available as book from Microsoft Press.

"Developed by Microsoft’s senior editors and content managers, this manual of style captures the up-to-date standards and best practices for delivering clear and consistent technical communications."

Help Authoring Related Links

Helpmaster.info
In memoriam of Josef Becker
Helpmaster.info was one of the best starting points for help related stuff on the web. This site is no longer maintained, though it still provides a well sorted list of available help authoring tools. We keep this link to remember the site master Josef Becker.

WorkWrite, Inc.
Cheryl Lockett Zubak, president of Work Write, Inc. is an internationally known speaker and consultant on software user assistance design. See article above.

The Helpware Group
provides HTML Help, FrontPage and Delphi users with support and quality software tools. They are based in Melbourne, Australia. Enjoy the site.

HTML HELP Center
by David Liske is a very helpful resource site that clearifies features and problems of HTML HELP, It is a must visit if you are in Visual Basic.

Helpful Solutions
Paul O'Rear, the owner of Helpful Solutions, is an independent contractor providing consultation and custom software development services for Online Help authors and application developers; specializing in customizations to the online help systems.

Shadow Mountain Tech
Help programming references, Winhelp + HTML HELP connection to VB and C++.