Topico Example Collections

Personal, small business or special interest web site

You would like to create, manage and publish a small web site and you don't know where to start. You would also like to apply some best practices to ease maintenance later on but you don't know which ones.

Tópico is based on the same standards that are driving more expensive solutions and probably represent your safest investment when starting a brand new small scale web document collection.

The integration of a simple HTML editor and a publishing engine brings you the most flexible system with a tiny footprint and no reliance to an hosted solutions. You keep "your" content on "your" system and publish it wherever you want in the format you need.

Here are a few benefits you get when using Tópico.

• It's desktop based;
• It's easy to install and use;
• It's based on international web standards;
• It creates usable and maintainable web documents collections;

Electronic books and portfolios online or on CD-ROM

You're working on your own multimedia portfolio that you would like to distribute online and on a CD-ROM. Unfortunately, you haven't found a simple enough (affordable) Content Management System and you're not yet ready for Flare or Robo Help, which might also be over designed for your simpler needs.

You also find that hosted large scale solutions like Facebook or MySpace aren't appropriate to upload your portfolio content because you're worried about issues facing ownership and access to your hard work. You would also like to get more creative freedom and a flexible publishing workflow to output different versions of your portfolio.

Tópico can help you create your portfolio collection on your own computer and publish it either on the Internet Service Provider of your choice or on CD-ROM, where Internet access is unavailable or to slow for bandwidth intensive multimedia projects.

By creating a web document collection in Tópico, you'll gain access to a flexible publishing engine that will make sure you publication will be as professional as it can be.

Here are a few benefits you get when using Tópico.

• It's easy to install and use;
• It creates usable and maintainable web documents collections;
• It publishes your collections online or on CD-ROM;

Reports as interactive documents

You've been working on this report for the last few months and you've gather many collateral files and assets you'd like to make available without cluttering the core message of your work.

Why wouldn't you publish your report as a small web site with drop down menus, breadcrumbs, page navigation, links to external resources and more.

Standards and procedures collections

Your working for a small company and as the HR department internal communications lead, you would like to publish the company's collection of policies and procedures on your intranet.

Tópico can help you publish your collection of Standard Operating Procedures through advanced publising options like content reuse and filtering.

Small businesses do not necessarely need a sophisticated information architecture like DITA offers large corporations with sophisticated publishing needs. On the other hand, the benefits of a publishing system are welcome in any system, at any scale.

Using Tópico to initially setup your document collection is a safe step because if you ever need to upgrade to a more robust (and more expensive) publishing system, Tópico will make it easier than any other option you might choose today.

Here are a few benefits you'll appreciate when using Tópico.

Workgroup mashup on your intranet

Your small department would like to display different news feed it creates as part of it's standard publishing processes. This would make your team more visible and the information up to date.

Here are a few benefits you'll appreciate when using Tópico.

• Create and apply semantic styles easily;
• Include external XML files when publising your collection;
• Load external XML files at runtime;
• Make it available on the intranet or as a local version to save bandwith.

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