By "online help", do you mean web-based help, or platform-native
integrated help? If the latter, for what platform? What platform are
you developing on?

There are no open source help authoring GUIs that I'm aware of (unless
you want to use a wiki). If you want an open-source solution that
outputs to web-based help with a table-of-contents and built-in
search, consider DocBook XML. The web-help output was recently added
to the DocBook Tool Chain.

I have a few posts on my blog about free or cheap help-authoring
tools. They are a few years old now, but might still be useful:

http://www.janetswisher.com/?itemid=135
http://www.janetswisher.com/?itemid=150
http://www.janetswisher.com/?itemid=186

You might also check out http://hat-matrix.com/ to compare features of
help tools.


On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone have suggestions for what software to use to create an online
> help system for a product? Looking for something that is simple to use
> and provides an intuitive interface. There will probably be less than
> 100 pages in the entire system.
>
> An open source product we be ideal.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don
>
> --

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