New 2-day course / tutorial:
Getting started with XDK
- What is XDK
- About HTML/XML
- About styles and CSS
- Installing/uninstalling XDK
- Running XDK and HDK on the same machine
- Starting XDK
- XDK online help features, supporting documentation and the typical online document interface
- About the XDK Interface (including the XDK toolbar and 4 tabs)
- Exercise 1: Exploring XDK online help and the interface of a typical online document
Working with XDK projects
- XDK documents and topics
- Working with documents
- Working with topics
- Creating a standard index
- Exercise 2: Creating and modifying an online document
Inserting hyperlinks
- About what you can link to (topics within a project, web pages, email responders, external files, Collapsible text)
- Inserting, modifying and deleting hyperlinks
- Displaying linked information (online windows and formats)
- Exercise 3: inserting hypertext links in an online document
Inserting graphics
- About digital graphics
- Inserting, modifying and deleting a picture
- Image mapping
- Inserting a button
- Exercise 4: inserting an image map and button in an online document.
Building and testing projects
- About online formats
- Selecting an online format
- Building a project
- Viewing the online output of a project
- Exercise 5: Choosing build options and building a project
Upgrading HDK projects
- The shift from WinHelp to XML
- What’s new in XDK
- What XDK no longer supports
- Importing a HDK project into XDK
- Reworking your project
- Distributing online documents and the XDK output directory
- Exercise 6: Upgrading an HDK project
To discuss your training needs contact Chelverton House.
For a demonstration of what you can produce with XDK, click here
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