Find your DITA learning path, whether you are:
- Completely new to structured authoring
- A new DITA author who needs to develop, organize, and reuse DITA content
- A DITA author learning how to work in a new CCMS
- A DITA expert who wants to customize the DITA Open Toolkit for publishing
🆕 I’m new to structured authoring and DITA
Start with our free course, Introduction to structured authoring and DITA. Build a strong foundation before moving on to any other courses.
✍️ I need to author DITA topics
Gain practical experience in authoring the four primary DITA topic types:
- Authoring DITA concept topics: Learn to write background information, insert images and tables, and understand basic XML best practices.
- Authoring DITA task topics: Master the art of writing step-by-step procedures and applying task-authoring best practices.
- Authoring DITA reference and glossary topics: Learn to structure quick-reference facts, data, and glossary entries.
💰 Save big with these curated value packs instead of buying individual courses:
- DITA topics (three courses)
- Complete DITA training (six courses)
🏗️ I’m organizing DITA content and managing reuse
Discover techniques for collecting topics, establishing reuse, and setting up conditional processing/personalization:
- Using DITA maps and bookmaps: Learn how to collect your individual topics into cohesive documents and build relationship tables.
- Reusing content in DITA: Stop copying and pasting! Learn how to create reusable topics, reuse maps, and implement basic content references (conrefs).
- Conditional processing and linking in DITA: Take your reuse strategy to the next level by mastering conditional text (profiling), keys, and advanced conrefs.
💰 Save big with these curated value packs instead of buying individual courses:
- Maps, reuse, and conditional processing (three courses)
- Complete DITA training (six courses)
🖥️ I need to author content in a CCMS
Get hands-on experience authoring DITA content in a component content management system (CCMS). We offer courses for three of the leading CCMS tools:
To follow along with the instructions and examples in these courses, you need a CCMS license. The courses do not provide access to a CCMS.
⚙️ I want to install and customize the DITA Open Toolkit
In the Customizing the DITA-OT course, learn installation and testing basics, discover best practices for developing custom plugins, work with XSLT templates, and more.
For advanced users with a strong understanding of DITA.