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XDK Foundation

Is this course for me?

This course is for anyone who needs to learn the principles of planning, designing and writing effective online documentation or Help files, and will be using XDK. This course is the official curriculum created by the developers of XDK, Virtual Media. Delegates who complete the course successfully are recognised by Virtual Media as achieving an international standard of proficiency with the product. Cherryleaf offers this training course in the United Kingdom (UK), Ireland and Europe.

What will I learn?

Following this course, you will be able to:

Save time and money by approaching your development in an organised and informed way
Use XDK to develop successful online information by applying a proven methodology
Exploit the fact that your information is online by adding a range of powerful hypertext facilities
Analyse and plan your Help development projects effectively

Topics covered

Getting started with XDK	Using XDK basic features
About XHTML/XML and online documents About styles Starting XDK About the XDK Interface About XDK projects Working with XDK documents Inserting a topic Building your project	Working with topics Using topic styles Inserting hyperlinks Using link styles Inserting images About digital graphics Working with images Applications of graphics Importing standard Word documents Importing HDK projects into HDK Differences between HDK and XDK Importing an HDK project Reworking imported HDK projects
Designing online documents	Developing and distributing online documents
Designing the document interface Setting window options for standard Internet browser Setting window options for Compressed HTML Help Designing your navigation Setting compiler options Selecting an online format Setting general compiler options	Developing a multi-project system Creating and building a master/slave project Distributing and maintaining online documents The XDK output directory and distributing online documents Maintaining your projects Moving information

Course documents

Delegates receive a set of written course notes.

Prerequisites

Delegates need a sound knowledge of Microsoft Word 2000, XP or ME.

Cost of the Course

The price is dependent on the number of delegates and the degree of customisation required. Contact us for details.

Dates

Further information

Contact us if you would like to know more about how we can help you. If you can, please state the issues you are interested in fixing. We'll respond by email or phone.