DITA

DITA for Writers and Editors

Front Runner courses are available online, on-site, at your place of business or at our Front Runner location.

Please note that Front Runner does not provide public courses. As needs vary from client to client, we focus on meeting those specific needs.

Our clients prefer either one-on-one customized or team training.

We offer the option of choosing the topics clients need to get the job done. This ensures greater success, once the client is back in the trenches, using the software.

Reasonably priced rates are available for team training.

If you are interested in courses not listed, please ask. We have the resources to teach more products than are listed on our training pages.

Overview:

About Front Runner's DITA Program

Front Runner's DITA courses are each targeted to your organization's key knowledge development, publishing, and management roles:

Content creators, including business analysts, technical leaders, and technical and marketing communicators
Managers, including senior executives, functional leaders, and line managers
Information architects

This course for writers, editors, instructional designers, and other content creators teaches participates how to use DITA XML to create modular, multimedia, interactive content suitable for automated publishing to print, online, and SCORM-compliant formats.

Delivery: Instructor-led, hands-on delivery either online, on-site at your place of business or at Front Runner. Our custom training meets your needs.

Duration: 3 Days

Prerequisites:

XML
Essentials

or familiarity with XML concepts and syntax.

Further Learning:

DITA
DITA for Information Architects

Objectives:

Upon successful completion attendees should be able to:

Understand the benefits of DITA
Understand the DITA content types: topic, concept, task, and reference, plus the new learning objects types to be released in DITA 1.2
Understand DITA structure types: map and bookmap
Create, edit, and validate new DITA XML content
Import existing unstructured and non-modular content into DITA content
Add bitmaps, vector graphics, animation, audio, and video to DITA content
Add interactive content to DITA topics
Add metadata to DITA content for managing, publishing, and search and retrieval
Define DITA maps and bookmaps
Manage content with a revision control system or content management system
Publish DITA content to print, online, and SCORM-compliant formats