I am building a customer portal based on Zoho CRM.

As the users will be clients with no training I want to provide them with help on each form / module.

I am struggling to Add just a paragraph of help text/instructions at the top of each page.

I have tried:

1) Using a formula to display some text - unfortunately this doesnt show up when they are editing a form.

2) Using a multi line field set as read only and using a workflow and custom deluge script to populate the field with a paragraph of help text

3) Using a picklist field which uses the option field to display a line of help text.

4) Using links (in left margin) but they only show up for CRM users not portal users.

5) Adding buttons to popup a help paragraph

6) Using tooltips bit they offer very limited nbr of characters

Why is it so hard to add a paragraph of static help text at the top of a module?