Topic Design/Structure = Speed of updating content in project

1. Yes, we do incorporate screen captures in our topics, and
I have streamlined as much as I can, stripping out all duplicates
and linking to the source.
2. I do realize that by use of the pop-up images, which I use
a lot, it does impact the speed simply by virtue of the image size.
3. MY question is this: I was hired to maintain a system that
already exists and have taught myself a lot of streamlining
features but am sure there are others I'm not aware of. I was just
wondering if maybe there was a better design structure I could
apply to improve the efficiency of the topics. Here is our current
structure:
1 Main project under which all other projects (CHM) are
linked as Merged Topics.
300+ Topics - each one creating a separate CHM that is then
merged into the main project
Some of these individual topics are quite large (we have 1
topic per screen/feature). I have broken out as much as I can into
common topics and link to those rather than repeating information;
but even with that, I still have some huge ones such as the one I'm
working today.
It is taking like 1 minute at times from clicking "Insert
hyperlink" till I get the dialog to select the bookmark and several
minutes just for the topic to open or compile.
I've come across terms such as "Page" "Topic" "Book" "Pane"
etc, and was just wondering if maybe we need to tweak our
underlying structure to improve in this area. Any suggestions?
Thanks a heap!

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Sounds like RoboHelp would certainly fit the bill for what you are seeking. Basically it works as follows:
You maintain all the content on your local PC.
You then Generate a Web Based output such as WebHelp, FlashHelp or AIR Help (Web Based).
Once the output has been created, you publish it to the Web location.
So perhaps you add a few pages and change some others.
You make those changes in your local copy of RoboHelp and Generate the Web Based output again.
You then publish the output to the Web location to populate the updates.
The first time you publish output ALL the content has to be copied across. But at that time, RoboHelp makes a list of what files were copied.
Subsequent publish operations only copy the files that need to be copied. So the first time through it may take a few minutes to copy all the content. But subsequent publish cycles should take just a brief while. Often, just a few seconds.
Cheers... Rick
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AnalogKid17 wrote:
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In the instance you give, it is because the TOPIC has been updated (half-blue) with a new (solid blue) POST. IIRC, when some one EDITs of of their posts then you may see the half-blue dot for that post.
Ah, I was right, I just edited this post and it had a half-blue dot.
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