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.
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1. Structured Authoring Meets Responsive Design Mark Giffin
Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc.
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 Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
3. Purpose of presentation Show that structured authoring with
responsive design can be a powerful combination Not going into
great technical detail Structured Authoring Meets Responsive Design
- Mark Giffin - #stc14
4. Assumptions You know something about structured authoring
You know something about responsive design Structured Authoring
Meets Responsive Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
5. The Modern Age of Documentation Structured Authoring Meets
Responsive Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
6. The Modern Age of Documentation Its 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 Design -
Mark Giffin - #stc14
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 Structured Authoring Meets
Responsive Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
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 Design - Mark Giffin -
#stc14
11. Responsive design Content displays differently depending on
the device Structured Authoring Meets Responsive Design - Mark
Giffin - #stc14
12. Not responsive: tri-pane webhelp Structured Authoring Meets
Responsive Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
13. Tri-pane webhelp on a smartphone Structured Authoring Meets
Responsive Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
14. Responsive webhelp on a smartphone Structured Authoring
Meets Responsive Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
15. Responsive webhelp on a smartphone Structured Authoring
Meets Responsive Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
16. The reason: adaptive content Structured Authoring Meets
Responsive Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14 Structured authoring
Responsive design
17. Adaptive content Definition: Presenting content to a user
that is based on the users 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 Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
18. Example - authoring conditions Structured Authoring Meets
Responsive Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
19. Example - authoring conditions Structured Authoring Meets
Responsive Design - Mark Giffin - #stc14
22. Companies and products SDL LiveContent Reach Antidot
FluidTopics Mekon DITAWeb SuiteSolutions Probably many others
Custom programming Structured Authoring Meets Responsive Design -
Mark Giffin - #stc14
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