I would recommend a link to GrampsWeb.org somewhere in the nav panel. I’m working with some family members where I created accounts for them, sent them links to my Gramps Web instance and during the course of our orientation sessions over conference call, there were several “how do I do X” questions. If we weren’t on a conference call, then they could have, alternatively, seen the “user manual” or “help” button and located the information themselves, etc. The more family I involve, the more I could see this being of benefit. Of course good instructions need to be available and I do plan on contributing to the docs in that capacity through this ‘example exercise’ with my family. I also think they are a good use case for this class of user (browser-conversant, but not IT whizzes).
Yes, I agree.
One practical question is how to realize the UI for it - multilingual help tooltips would be quite a lot to translate. But we could just have a generic “open help page” or something button with a question mark icon that links to the appropriate page on grampsweb.org. Do you think that would work?
Yes I think a simple link to the “user guide” section of the docs would suffice. I’m actively working that section of the docs with a lot more user friendly “hand-holding” examples provided and link wording such that folks should be able to readily find answers and examples to what they want to accomplish. Below is a section I’m working on that explains the various record types they’ll be working with, etc.
Compared to the manuals I maintain for the X-Plane flight simulator, this is rather relaxing work 
