In my previous post, I wrote about how handy collapsing and expanding sections can be. Although there are several plugins that enable this functionality, it’s pretty easy to create this functionality yourself from scratch. JSfiddle.net is a neat site that lets you play around with JavaScript, separating out the HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and result into Continue Reading »
The past few days I’ve been diligently watching JavaScript tutorials on Lynda.com and taking notes. I decided to formalize my notes into a series of pages on my site. You can view the JavaScript notes here: Introduction Variables Conditional Code Firefox and Firebug Loops Functions Arrays Numbers Strings Dates Objects Document Object Model Insertion of Continue Reading »
Alistair Christie recently published a podcast about Unscripted Screencasts and Flare Extensibility. In the podcast, he considers whether scripts are necessary for corporate screencasts – a good topic for exploration and testing. But he also gets into something a little more interesting: extending Flare with jQuery. jQuery is the new Javascript. It provides smooth functionality Continue Reading »
Context-sensitive help in Madcap Flare is pretty easy to set up – you just follow the steps in Flare’s context-sensitive help instructions. However, there’s a usability problem that you must work around for the context-sensitive help to be successful. Let me explain. When the user clicks a context-sensitive help link, a help window appears, as it Continue Reading »
I was reading an article in a previous STC Intercom magazine about how to add a Send Feedback link to your online help project, but the javascript didn’t work. Here’s an alternative method that does work. This Send Feedback link grabs the page title and URL and includes it in the e-mail that the user Continue Reading »