Web Help Demo

This Web Help Demo document demonstrates how to implement and modify the Web Help publishing profile first delivered with Author-it 5.3

The new publishing profile publishes content to HTML but moves away from the standard HTML templates in some ways:

• It uses Javascript libraries created by EXTJS.
• No longer uses a frameset.
• Uses AJAX to dynamically update small areas of the page.
• Publishes the Table of Contents (TOC) as a JSON file (toc.json) that makes parsing the various tree nodes faster and simpler.
• Publishes a Sitemap (sitemap.xml) file to optionally assist bots (Google, Yahoo etc) to crawl your website.
• Moves common navigation icons (contents, index, previous, and next) into the header area.
• Moves common functionality (search, print, e-mail a friend, feedback) into the header area.
• Implements bread-crumbs in the header area..
• Provides an 'edit this topic' button allowing end users who have <AIT> installed to jump directly into the relevant Topic within their library.
• Allows topics within the TOC area to have different graphics for their tree nodes based on the Object Template applied to them.
• Has rich functionality in the default publishing profile rather than requiring it to be added to the default templates.