Tools für Integration und Test von Online-Hilfen
Marktüberblick über empfehlenswerte Tools im Zusammenhang mit der Integration, dem kontextsensitiven Aufruf sowie dem Test und der Qualitätssicherung von Online-Hilfen
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Testing HTML help files in different browsers and on different screen sizes
Testing HTML help files on a local web server
Web analytics and usability testing
Help+Manual 2 Go Mini web server that doesn’t need installation and can be used for testing and running browser-based help locally. Can be used to avoid the problem that browsers are increasingly implementing security features that prevent browser-based online help from running properly when opened from local drives or optical media. Price: free (freeware); may even be distributed with your own products https://www.helpandmanual.com/hm2go.html KeyHelp Free ActiveX control that enhances the capabilities of compiled Microsoft HTML Help systems. In particular, it enables you to use popups, embedded windows, auto-sizing windows, and information types. Price: free (freeware) http://keyworks.helpmvp.com/downloads Epilogue Runs in the background, tracking a user’s place in the application. When the user requests help, the program delivers the most relevant supporting content. Users can also mark their favorite training and help content so that they can quickly access the help topics that are most relevant to them. Price: not published Zoom Search Engine Can be used to add full text search to browser-based online help files and web sites. Also works for locally installed help. Price: approx. $99 (“Professional”); there’s also a free version for up to 50 indexed topics available Swiftype Site Search Can add powerful search and search analytics to online Webhelp. Price: starting at approx. $79 per month SeekQuarry Search engine software. Price: free (open source) Apache PredictionIO Machine learning server to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery. Price: free (open source) H2Reg Small utility to register MS Help 2.x Collections (namespaces, titles, plug-ins, filters) without using Microsoft Installer. Price: approx. $100 |
xchm Cross-platform GUI front-end to CHM lib (http://www.jedrea.com/chmlib/). Can be used to display CHM files on Unix systems (including content tree, index, full text search, and bookmarks). Price: free (open source) kchmviewer CHM viewer for Unix, Mac, and Windows. Price: free (open source) ExtraCHM CHM viewer for Windows. Also includes a CHM decompiler. Price: free (freeware) Chmox Displays CHM documents on the Mac. Price: free (open source) Okular Universal document viewer (including CHM and PDF) for KDE. Price: free (open source) |
Browsershots Takes screen captures of a web page in various browsers and on various platforms so that you can verify the rendering. Price: free (web application) IE NetRenderer Takes screen captures of a web page in various versions of Internet Explorer. Price: free (web application) BrowserStack Gives you instant access to various browsers in a virtual machine, or creates screen captures of a web page rendered in various browsers. Price: starting at approx. $29 per month Most important web browsers https://www.google.com/chrome/ https://www.opera.com/computer https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web Screenfly Lets you set up a specific screen size, and then shows how a web page looks on devices of this size. Price: free (web application) http://quirktools.com/screenfly/ deviceponsive Shows how a web page looks on various standard screen sizes. Price: free (web application) |
XAMPP Price: free (open source) WampServer Price: free (open source) MAMP Especially for Mac OS. Price: free (open source) |
The W3C Markup Validator Checks the markup of web documents. Price: free (web application) The W3C CSS Validation Service Free service that checks Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for conformance to W3C recommendations. Price: free (web application) |
DRKSpider Checks internal and external links, style sheets, images, and other files of a web site or browser-based help system. Price: free (open source) http://www.drk.com.ar/spider.php Xenu’s Link Sleuth Checks web sites for broken hyperlinks. Link verification is performed on links that appear in <a> tags, as well as images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts, and Java applets. Price: free (freeware) |
If you create webhelp, you can monitor its use like you can monitor access to any web site. So you don’t necessarily have to use a help authoring tool with built-in monitoring and statistics features. Google Analytics Price: free (hosted service) https://www.google.com/analytics/ Matomo Price: free (open source) Open Web Analytics (OWA) Price: free (open source) http://www.openwebanalytics.com ScrollDepth Plugin for Google Analytics and also for Piwik that analyzes how far down users scroll on a page. Price: free (open source) Inspectlet Provides in-depth analysis that standard web analytic tools don’t provide, such as individual session recordings. Price: starting free, up to more than approx. $300 per month Optimal Workshop Suite of tools to help analyze and improve information architecture and navigation. Price; approx. $166 per months; there is also a free plan with limited features available. |
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