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Authoring in DITA: the good, the bad, and the sometimes ugly 27 Aug 2013 | 09:24 am
One of the big sticking points for professional writers is having to change their work methods. Let's not mince words: working in DITA is not for punters.
DITA Maps and the Real World 19 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
How DITAmaps get used in the real world, the benefits, and how to get the best use of them. - second-part of a 2-part post.
A Standard for Exchanging Stories – Meet DITA Maps 13 Aug 2013 | 06:41 am
Guest posts for the next couple of weeks by Noz Urbina, who took my request for a guest post (while I recover from surgery) so seriously that he wrote enough for several posts. As the overall title sa...
Holes in the Template: Piping content into the CMS 6 Aug 2013 | 07:14 am
When companies want to publish lots of information on their website about their products, likely that product information doesn’t originate from their Web CMS. They will have an ERP (Enterprise Resour...
To DITA or not to DITA: That’s a Good Question – Part 2 30 Jul 2013 | 02:14 am
In the first part of this article, published last week, I made the contrast between authoring environments and publishing environments. What was not made explicit was the difference between creating ...
To DITA or not to DITA: That’s a Good Question – Part 1 22 Jul 2013 | 10:46 pm
Well, that is one question to ask, certainly. There has been a lot of discussion during the past week on the Content Strategy Google group about the last post (DITA: Not Just for Technical Content), w...
DITA: Not Just for Technical Content 16 Jul 2013 | 02:32 am
Now that some readers urged me to declare a Summer of DITA, there’s no pressure to squeeze in all the points I wanted to make about structured authoring in two or three posts. During the summer of 201...
DITA-to-Web: The next Big Thing – Part 2 7 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
DITA and the Web Until now, there has been a comfortable, if somewhat artificial, difference between the world of content in a Web CMS and the world of structured authoring. The marketing content liv...
DITA-to-Web: The next Big Thing – Part 1 1 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
DITA vs the Web For the last fifteen years, the Web CMS has reigned supreme as the way to manage larger volumes of content. Professionals at all in the digital space, from developers to designers to ...
The increasing relevance of ebooks and other epublications 22 Mar 2013 | 03:39 am
Perspective and predictions for the emerging ebook technology and associated genres.
