Structured authoring and responsive design should work together. Responsive design is something used on modern websites to make the site easy to use on many different devices. Your structured source files can take advantage of this.
2. Your presenter
• Long background as a technical writer
• Programming related to XML documentation
systems
• DITA a specialty
• CCMS implementation and integration
• “Documentation tools” and automation
• Company: Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc.
Structured Authoring Meets Responsive
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3. Purpose of presentation
• Show that structured authoring with
responsive design can be a powerful
combination
• Not going into great technical detail
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4. Assumptions
• You know something about structured
authoring
• You know something about responsive design
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5. The Modern Age of Documentation
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6. The Modern Age of Documentation
• It’s a mess
• There is a good bit of chaos
• Many ways of authoring
• Many methods of output
• Numberless device types
• Connections with other areas of business
(SEO and others)
Structured Authoring Meets Responsive
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7. These two are dependable
• Structured authoring and responsive design
– Tech comm people talk about them
– Web developers talk about them
– Content strategists talk about them
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8. Structured authoring
• The parts of a document have a set purpose
• Easier to automate because it is predictable
• Pick and choose content for different purposes
• Manually done or guided (XML)
Structured Authoring Meets Responsive
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11. Responsive design
• Content displays differently depending on the
device
Structured Authoring Meets Responsive
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12. Not responsive: tri-pane webhelp
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13. Tri-pane webhelp
on a smartphone
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14. Responsive webhelp
on a smartphone
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15. Responsive webhelp
on a smartphone
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16. The reason: adaptive content
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Structured
authoring
Responsive
design
17. Adaptive content
• Definition: Presenting content to a user that is
based on the user’s characteristics
– User profile, selected items, search terms etc.
• Amazon is a good example (outside tech
comm)
• Tech comm examples??
• See Don Day (tech comm side)
• See Karen McGrane (content strategy side)
Structured Authoring Meets Responsive
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18. Example - authoring conditions
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19. Example - authoring conditions
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23. Some references
• Noz Urbina - COPE Content Modelling for
Adaptive UX
http://www.slideshare.net/nozurbina/cope-
content-modelling-for-adaptive-ux-noz-urbina
• Don Day
http://www.slideshare.net/donrday/feeding-the-
adaptive-content-monster
• Karen McGrane
http://karenmcgrane.com/
• http://www.responsinator.com/ lets you see your
site on a crappy android phone
Structured Authoring Meets Responsive
Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
Purpose: to enable adaptive content, you have to be able to author content, and you have to be able to display it. The mechanism of how you gain info on a user and choose what to present to them is not part of this presentation.
We in tech comm should know something about them
Hope to give guidance
Both are large areas in themselves
I wanted to talk about how they can be used together beneifcially
Artist’s conception of what our field looks like today
I’ve been around tech comm since before it was called tech comm
HTML, XML, DITA, DocBook
CMS, CCMS, ECM, DITA,
apps
Content strategy, ebooks, single sourcing, dynamic content (old DHTML, new HTML5), rwd, embedded help, ...
No end in sight
It is NOT: MS Word with override formatting and no style discipline
Looks good on a desktop-sized screen
Uses deprecated HTML “frames”
Looks terrible on a phone
Not flexible enough
Looks terrible on a phone
Not flexible enough
Watch the tables
Looks terrible on a phone
Not flexible enough
Watch the tables
What?? Another term?
The info is done with structured authoring. The presentation with responsive design.
What?? Another term?
The info is done with structured authoring. The presentation with responsive design.