Understanding the book metaphor

The Lectora Online Publisher uses a book metaphor to help you create an organized hierarchy of content. The project represents the overall course (or book metaphorically), and the course (book) can contain and be organized using chapters, sections, sub-sections, and pages. The pages represent the physical pages that are designed by the author. Chapters, sections, and sub-sections are not physical pages, but rather a means of organizing the project.

Here’s a more detailed look at these project components:

The Project

• Holds all the information on a particular subject

• Contains pages

• Organizes those pages into chapters or sections, or both

• Can include project-wide features such as a company logo or forward and backward navigation

The Chapters

• Contain logical “major” subdivisions of information about the subject

• Can be further subdivided into sections

• Contain sections, pages, or both, but not other chapters

• Can include chapter-wide features that are apparent on every page within that chapter

The Sections

• Contain logical “minor” subdivisions of information about the subject

• Can be further subdivided into smaller sections (called sub-sections)

• Contain sub-sections, pages, or both

• Can include section-wide features that are apparent on every page within that section

The Pages

• Contain physical objects such as text, images, and video

• Cannot be further subdivided

• Are the physical pages that your users will see

With Lectora Online, you can use the same approach to organizing your content. There is a direct relationship between the elements of a book and the elements that comprise project. The project can contain only pages or you can organize those pages into chapters, sections, and subsections.

To get started using the Publisher, see Starting the Publisher.

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