I have had many people ask for an easy download of RoboHelp Skins, so here they are, 54 WebHelp skins bundled into Zip files. Each skin file itself contains many small files.

I have included 37 small screen shots of some of the WebHelp skins - this is not a complete set. You can quickly preview what they would look like, without having to load each skin to see.

(Sorry, I withdrew the FlashHelp skins. None of my clients wanted them as they find the constantly moving icons an irritating distraction, and also they were concerned that they would be responsible for installing and maintaining Flash on end-user systems.)

Note! The zip files are about 1.4Mb each, so I recommend a broadband connection! If you use a modem, these downloads could take some minutes...

1.   We have set this up free of charge to help RH users like yourself.

2.   Please help me in return: Provide a clickable link from your web site to this web site's home page. It will help other RoboHelp users to find the Skins files, and it will help my business a little.

3.   I have virus-scanned the zip files, but I must make it clear that you use these at your own risk. These are standard RH skin files; I have used many of them myself, but it is up to you to know how to use them: there are some tips below.

I regret that I cannot provide support; however, 'Thank you' emails would be encouraging!

4.   Enjoy!

The Skin files are split into TWO Zip files of about 1.4 Mb each. For bandwidth reasons, I keep these on a couple of other web sites.

1. RIGHT-CLICK link to download SkinPack1.zip then select Save Target As...
(This contains screenshots and Skin set 1)

2. CLICK link to fetch SkinPack2 (on another web site page, Skin Set 2).

See also RH7 Environment Files

How to use 'Skins'

Customising the look of user-friendly Online Help is often important. Companies prefer not to use the standard appearance - it looks rather bland.

For users who don’t want their Help Guides to look like every other Help Guide, RoboHelp lets you easily “skin” your online documentation in WebHelp or FlashHelp formats. Simply put, skinning means replacing the current look and feel of the Help Guide with a completely different set of colours or graphics.

If you know how, you can make your own that match your existing software application or your website. Although the default skin looks acceptable, for some people it still may look a bit too default.

If you don't know how, then you RoboHelp allows you to import that other users have created - provided you have access to them in the first place!

You can see some examples on this page.

There used to be a Community page where users offered their own designs free of charge to other users. Great idea - and people enjoyed sharing their designs. However, time has moved on and their availability is almost non-existent.

Once upon a time...

OK, so how do you get these extra for your RoboHelp projects, so that you can change their appearance? The book says, go into the Project folder, right click on , and select 'Import from the Web'. Hmmm...

Once upon a time, you could download a number of WebHelp skins from the Help Community website, and these were submitted by various RH users, freely available to other RH users. You could import using the link in RoboHelp (Project tab > Skins > right-click > Import from Web). This used to take you to the online RoboHTML Skins Gallery.

BUT ! - For a number of years, Adobe and Macromedia seem to have forgotten all their users worldwide, and killed the link: "web page not found". So I have set this page up for you.

The RH Help Guide says:

"You can customise your WebHelp output so that it resembles your company's Web-based or desktop application, so that you can deliver a professional-looking product. The Help Guide tells us that if you don't know how to design your own RoboHelp , you can select one from the Gallery, changing the colours, buttons, text, fonts, icons, and more. Add colourful backgrounds and special images for TOC icons and navigation buttons, insert your company's logo, add custom buttons, and use other effects that can update or improve your WebHelp system's look.

There are a few pre-designed available in the Skin Gallery for you to edit and use in your project. Creating new based on gallery designs is one way to do it - if you have time to learn how. You can save the new designs for use in other projects. When you create a skin from a gallery skin, a copy of the gallery skin is copied into your project with any customizations you make (the gallery skin remains unchanged).

Polish up your RoboHelp and Technical Writing skills!

I provide a number of Training Courses to help people to write better, to get their message across first time, and help the readers to understand at the first reading. Please select a link and see further information about the courses available...

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