Single Sourcing, Content Management and the Otobase Project

This report examines some of the issues raised by multiuse publishing in the context of the Otobase software documentation project at the University of Washington. In doing so, it aims to contribute to our understanding of how single sourcing and content management might help us better adapt to users, and also to view the impact of a structured approach to documentation on writers and editors. The report will also use these ideas to suggest both current and long-term improvements for the Otobase project. First, it will briefly describe the project and its current documentation, and then look at theories of single sourcing, content management and structured documents before applying these theories to the project itself.

Burner, Dell. University of Washington-Seattle (2002). Books>Content Management>Single Sourcing

Style Sheets: Solid Presence, Expanding Future

With the release of Netscape 6.0 earlier this year, we finally have comprehensive support for the original Cascading Style Sheets specification (CSS1) from the two major browsers. Millions of people will continue to use older browsers, and designing for the Web may always be a complex and thorny proposition. But the gradual acceptance of CSS1, and the innovations promised by CSS2 and the still-unfinished CSS3, should motivate designers to add style sheets to their Web palettes.

Burner, Dell. EServer (2001). Design>Web Design>CSS