What is the HyperText Studio?

The HyperText Studio is a WYSIWYG HyperText authoring tool.  With it, you can create web sites and help files effortlessly! In an enterprise situation you can have multiple users working together on the same project! Four different editions of the product ensure that there is a configuration that meets your needs. See Which Edition is right for me? for more information on the differences.

The HyperText Studio's Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides a visual way to develop your projects. Learning the product is easy because it looks and acts like other major Windows applications.

The WYSIWYG and HTML Code editors work together to ease page creation. Frame, ImageMap, and Cascading Style Sheet editors help you create attractive, functional sites. Site and link management tools let you manage projects of any size effectively. Integrated site management and editor features make creating your content as simple as drag and drop.

The HyperText Studio stores information in a database that automatically ensures links, graphics, and other items in your project are always valid.

What can you create with the HyperText Studio?

HyperText Studio assists you in your development of:

• Application Help files
• Web sites
• Intranets
• Tutorials
• Company policies
• And more!

Create information in any format

The HyperText Studio is the easiest way to create and manage any of the following types of documentation:

• HTML 4.0
  At last you can use a tool that makes it as simple as point and click to create and manage HTML sites! Use all the latest techniques for creating great web pages through the HyperText Studio's support for frames, tables, absolute positioning and cascading style sheets. If you want dynamic and interactive pages you can make use the Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition or JavaScript support.
• Microsoft Windows Help 3.1 and 4.0
  Creating Windows Help files has always been easy with Olson Software products. The HyperText Studio takes creating help files to new heights of simplicity with its support for multiple help files in one project.
• Microsoft HTML Help 1.x
  The next generation of Help is upon us and because of its full HTML support, creating rich and effective content for your HTML Help files is effortless using the HyperText Studio!
• BrowserHelp
  BrowserHelp is a brand new way to display your help on the web.  Built around JavaScipt it effortlessly allows you to provide a table of contents, index and full text search for your project when displayed on the internet.
• Printed Documentation
  When you want to create a printed manual of your HyperText Studio project just use the Build|Printed Document menu command and the HyperText Studio will do the hard work for you, freeing you to ensure that your manual's content is correct.

Format independence

If your documentation needs to be output in more than one of the above formats you can easily change your format without losing data. The HyperText Studio does the hard work of ensuring that your content and special effects are transferred in the best way possible between formats.