Deblobbing In The Real World

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The Prussian field marshal Helmuth von Moltke famously said: “no plan survives contact with the enemy.” Similarly, few structured content models survive contact with a complex designs, CMS limitations, and real-world deadlines. Content reuse and cross-channel publishing depend on effective use of structured content: how can we combine those ideals with the pragmatic needs of our projects?

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Deblobbing in the real worldModeling reusable structured contentthat keeps working after the launch

CS Forum 2013

Hi. I’m @eaton!I’m with Lullabot.

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strategy, design, and development

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Chunks vs. Blobs

©2013 Victoria Belanger, Jello Mold Mistress of Brooklyn http://jellomoldmistress.com/

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NEEDS MOAR STRUCTURE

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No modelsurvivescontactwith realcontent

How does structured content break?

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No modelsurvivescontactwith realcontent

How does structured content break?

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1. Design Coupling8

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Question

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Episode

Topic

Name

NameLocation

QuestionAnswer

Episode

Timestamp

SegmentProductsTopic

Design-First Content-First

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3. Oddball Content15

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Modeling Complexity

Quan

tity +

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Structure Payoff

FAQ page

Sidebarpromos

Terms ofservice

Newsarticle

Staff bio

Photogallery

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Assets Structure Ephemera

2. Editors doing design18

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Position Priority

Appearance ➧ Emphasis

Proximity Relationship

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If you must, treat the layout as its own kind of content

4. Narrative flow23

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HTML is for browsers.Article Gallery

Header Hero

Aside Slides

Div Warning

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Shortcodes Custom XML

Insertioncodes

HTML

HTML5

attributes

Make WYSIWYG speak your language.

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Structured content is a series of trade-offs.‣ Model meaning, not mockups‣ Ephemeral content needs less structure‣ Capture emphasis and priority, not layout‣ Narrative requires structure in the body

… Share your lessons!

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Thank you!