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Terminology Tuesday: Templates

February 11, 2015

Today I’m inspired by things that make life easier: templates!

Templates?!

Templates are magical! They can save you so much time, allowing you to streamline your development and make your process a lot more efficient. Templates will contain design elements, often times with placeholders for content and/or multimedia. These templates can be used as is, or they can be customized based on your particular needs, using the template elements as a baseline, reducing your time spent in customization.

When I first began my development journey, I would manually develop templates and design elements, paying no mind to any resources available to me. However, when I began customizing existing templates, I realized how much time I was saving, and now as a small business owner, I can appreciate the importance of any and every resource saving I can get my grubby little hands on! You should make it a point to realize the importance of these time/cost savings too.

Examples of Templates

  • Articulate has a fantastic library of templates, some developed by Articulate and some developed by members of the E-learning Heroes Community.
    • I’ve also developed several free templates for various E-Learning Heroes Challenges. You can download those templates here.
  • Microsoft has an enormous wealth of templates for all of their Office products.
  • Even blogging platforms such as WordPress have libraries of available themes.

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Ashley ChiassonI’m a Instructional Designer with over 15 years of professional experience, and have developed e-learning solutions for clients within the Defence, Post-Secondary Education, Health, and Sales sectors. For more about me, click here!

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