Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Help Files to Hypertext

By William K. Horton

Book Overview

This guide shows how to design documents for rapid retrieval and display of stored information. Uses a step-by-step, hands-on approach, covering all the major design decisions involved in creating effective online documentation systems. Draws on actual experience backed by academic research to set forth design principles underlying effective human-computer interaction. Includes hundreds of examples showing how to design and create messages, menus, help files, computer tutorials, bibliographic databases, and hypertext.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471507725
• ISBN13: 9780471507727
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.9" x 7.4"