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Free DITA training in German: announcing LearningDITA.de

Posted on 11.03.16

LearningDITA.de logo

Prefer your DITA training in German? Visit our new sister site,  LearningDITA.de.

parson AG translated the English content in the DITA training GitHub project to develop the site.

Interested in creating more Learning DITA sites in other languages? Contact us.

No more enforced prerequisites: jump right in!

Posted on 04.12.16

The courses on LearningDITA.com build upon each other. The site required you take courses in a particular order—until now!

The description at the start of each course lists the prerequisite courses. Although we recommend you take those courses, you are no longer required to do so. We recognize that you may have gained required knowledge elsewhere, so jump right in where you want to start!

As always, we welcome your feedback.

New course available on maps and bookmaps

Posted on 04.07.16

Take our new DITA map and bookmap course and learn how to collect topics. Establish relationships among with them reltables.

Like all the free courses on LearningDITA.com, the maps course includes guided step-by-step practice and exercises to help you learn DITA.

Questions? Contact us. We welcome your feedback!

Special thanks to LearningDITA.com sponsors: oXygen XML Editor, The Content Wrangler,  and easyDITA.

Four courses now available

Posted on 11.17.15

LearningDITA.com is offering four free courses right now:

  • Introduction to DITA: Six-lesson course gets you started with the basics of DITA. A prerequisite for all other courses.
  • The DITA concept topic type: Five-lesson course introduces you to the DITA concept topic type. A prerequisite for courses on the task topic and the reference and glossary topic types.
  • The DITA task topic type: Five-lesson course introduces you to the DITA task topic type.
  • The DITA reference and glossary topic types: Four-lesson course introduces you to the DITA reference, glossary entry, and glossary group topic types.

We hope you find the free DITA training useful!

Coming soon: three courses on the DITA information types

Posted on 08.24.15

Thanks to everyone who signed up for the site and took the Introduction to DITA course. That course offers an overview on how to develop different types of information in DITA—concept, task, reference, and glossary.

Want more details about creating those specific information types? Never fear! We are releasing three new courses.

Creating concepts (September 2015)

  • Introduction
  • Lesson 1: Commonly used elements
  • Lesson 2: Images and tables
  • Lesson 3: More elements
  • Lesson 4: More advanced elements
  • Lesson 5: Best practices for concepts

Creating tasks (October 2015)

  • Introduction
  • Lesson 1: Creating a task topic
  • Lesson 2: Creating steps
  • Lesson 3: Finishing up the task
  • Lesson 4: Best practices for tasks

Creating glossaries and references (November 2015)

  • Introduction
  • Lesson 1: Creating a glossentry
  • Lesson 2: Creating a reference topic
  • Lesson 3: Best practices for glossaries and references

Course outlines and release dates are subject to change; we were still in development mode at the time of this post.

Questions? Please contact us.

Introduction to DITA now live!

Posted on 07.21.15

The first course on LearningDITA.com is now live: Introduction to DITA.

The course includes six lessons:

  1. What is DITA?
  2. DITA topics
  3. Metadata
  4. Creating DITA content
  5. Tables
  6. Creating relationships among topics

Lessons include code samples, links to additional resources and videos, and more. There is a quiz at the end of each lesson.

Sign up today! It’s free!

What’s new

Posted on 05.19.15

This is where we will announce updated courses at learningDITA.com.

The first course, Introduction to DITA, is coming soon. Stay tuned!

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