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 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) 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.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/microsoft-edge https://www.google.com/chrome/ https://www.opera.com/computer |
XAMPP Price: free (open source) https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html 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) https://scrolldepth.parsnip.io 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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