{"id":776,"date":"2015-02-11T10:16:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=776"},"modified":"2015-02-11T10:16:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T14:16:03","slug":"terminology-tuesday-templates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/terminology-tuesday-templates\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminology Tuesday: Templates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m inspired by things that make life easier: templates!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Templates?!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Examples of Templates<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.articulate.com\/downloads\/templates\" target=\"_blank\">Articulate has a fantastic library of templates<\/a>, some developed by Articulate and some developed by members of the E-learning Heroes Community.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve also developed several <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>free<\/strong><\/span> templates for various E-Learning Heroes Challenges. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sh\/wddtrg091id3tay\/AABJAps1aVoyI70JLDCpqYnka?dl=0\" target=\"_blank\">You can download those templates here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/templates.office.com\/?legRedir=true&amp;CorrelationId=35911c99-0853-4ac3-8634-429890ec5b5a\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft has an enormous wealth of templates<\/a> for all of their Office products.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Even blogging platforms such as <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/themes\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress have libraries of available themes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m inspired by things that make life easier: templates! 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