Create Help and Manual for MVC Application

Question

I have a small application that needs to have a professional looking Help/Manual section. The help would consist of:

• HowTos
• FAQ
• References

I am wondering if there is a free (Easy to learn) tool that can help me produce these documents in HTML format? Any suggestions?

Thanks for the help

Answer 1

for a new MVC application we are designing right now we plan to use an external help site in a wiki form. There are wiki engines like mediawiki and others, the idea is to have context sensitive help ( different help page opened from different application pages ) and also to allow users to add content like formulas and examples afterwards.

The cool thing is that a wiki track changes and does the versioning for us and for free so help can grow being fully decoupled from our application source code and users can see who has added what if they want.

in our case, it's only an Intranet application so in fact we have no security issues in the internal network.