Professional online Help Guides

We create Online Help Guides created for software, equipment and work procedures. Wide experience of all kinds of technical, industrial and commercial applications.

Do your online Help Guides –

• Look Good? (Help Guides don't have to look boring!)

• Have a visual style to match your product or web site?

• Improve your Credibility?

• Help you Sell your products?

• Make it easy to find the information?

• Reduce Learning Time?

• Reduce Support Calls?

This is where Authorgraphic can help you. Our help guide designs and our writing style are based on extensive research and on feedback from hundreds of end-users, over the last twenty years.

Help Author for Software Help Files

Online Help is the most popular delivery platform. It offers a structured Contents tree, a fast index of keywords, and a word search for almost any word in the file. It can even include movies.

• Lower distribution costs than printed matter.

• Proper Index of key words for fast search.

• Users can print individual help topics if required.

• Users can download updates over the internet.

• You can install Online Help on a network/intranet, for simultaneous, multi-user access.

• Runs on different platforms: Windows, Unix, Linux, Mac.

• Runs on different browsers: IE, Mozilla, Opera, etc. (Latest versions recommended.)

• Online Help created using market-leading Adobe RoboHelp.

• We also optimise diagrams, screen shots and photographs for fastest download.

Our help author can create great Software Help Guides that are quick and easy to use. You can have Help in a variety of output formats: Windows Help, HTML Help, and cross-platform / cross-browser WebHelp. Once the project is finished, we can pass the source files over to you and train you how to maintain it.

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Custom 'Skins'

We can design a "skin" for the Help Guide to resemble your software user interface, or perhaps your web site, to retain a 'corporate look and feel'. You can see more examples on the right.

Larger samples available on request.
For more information please call us on 01452 - 500 639.

Help Guides don't have to look boring!



"The customers thought the Help Guide was really good ... Everything was clear, concise and easy to access; colours & diagrams made it really easy to read. I'd like you to know you're doing a really good job."
- Fariha Hayat, Training Manager,   Enigma Health Ltd.



The Help Guide is absolutely fantastic. It's so thorough, and way beyond what we imagined."
- Natalie Roy, Product Manager,
  Gemini Data Loggers Ltd.



"The (online) Procedure Guide is great! New staff are training themselves. I give them one procedure to learn, and they're moving on to the next one without asking for help."
- Sheena Winnan, Team Leader,
  Eagle Star Pensions.



"I - am - impressed! Now I know why we use a Technical Author."
- Nick Loizos, Business Analyst, BP Shipping.