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Constraints inspire creativityGuidebook is opinionated. We believe that how-to instructions should be broken into steps. Textual instructions alone aren't good enough—each step must also have photos in a consistent aspect ratio (4:3, the native aspect ratio of consumer digital cameras). People work best when they're given a framework that inspires creativity. |
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Break outside the moldThe web is just the beginning. Once your data are in a consistent format, the sky is the limit. Create a custom view or mobile application to showcase your awesome content. |
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A picture tells
a thousand words.
It's time documentation came alive.
Tell compelling stories with rich mediaEvery photo tells a story. The best instruction manuals teach with images, video, and text. Our hard-earned experience walking millions of people through complex repairs has taught us that step-by-step photos are the easiest and clearest way to consistently explain elaborate procedures. The web sets manuals free from the burden of printed formats, allowing us to take full advantage of high-resolution, modern display technology. It's easier to zoom in on a screw when you have ten million pixels at your disposal—in every photo. |
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Awe-inspiring layouts without the maintenance headacheExisting rich media content systems forsake editability for appealing graphics. Guidebook creates alluring layouts that are easy to maintain and improve. Traditional wikis are great at text, but they fail badly at integrating media. Have you ever tried uploading a photo to Wikipedia? It's not fun. If adding just one image is hard, imagine how difficult it is to create visually compelling pages. Users can tell, too—they shy away from pages that look like stock templates. It's not a wiki if you can't improve it. Revision control is completely integrated into the image editor—an industry first. |
“ The image editor makes it a snap to add classy callouts to my photos.
David Hodson, Technical Writer
“ You have the most complete and accurate guides. Great pics and well worded instructions. You have saved my life on more than one occasion!
Ed, iFixit member
Plans & Pricing Go Mobile
Mobility is power.
Action-oriented content is designed to be mobile.
Prepare for the mobile futureLet people take your knowledge on the go! Our iPad app is a phenomenal tool for using Guidebook content. The app blends a native, full-screen guide view with web views for navigating the rest of Guidebook. Unlike the printed manuals of yore, web-connected manuals on iPad get better when you’re not using them—they automatically download the latest document. |
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“ A truly useful application. You have just made my life easier!
El Travieso, App Store Review
“ I love when an app comes along that [synchronizes] function and form. This rocks, and belongs on my iPad.
Scott Boettcher, App Store Review
Plans & Pricing Integrate Sales
Commerce integration.
The best place to sell product is at the point of need.
Tightly integrate productsThe best time to advertise a product is at the point of need. People learning how to install an iPod battery were also looking to purchase iPod batteries. Common-sense, right? But most content sites fail to integrate products. Advertisers love targeting specific categories of content. Retailers love coupling instructions with the specific products involved. Guidebook can integrate with your e-commerce solution as you need it to. Guidebook's semantic material, part, and tool tagging means you have the data you need to succeed. |
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The best SEO is organicTo a consumer, providing relevant product links isn't advertising—it's a resource. Successful internet retail requires building resources around products that draw traffic and backlinks. |
“ You helped me find the right part, gave me the correct instructions, and delivered the part promptly! Your organization is the greatest.
Gerald, iFixit customer
“ My brother-in-law fixed my iPod over the weekend, using the instructions and parts I ordered at your site. Now it works perfectly! Thank you so much for providing these parts and services!
Patricia, iFixit customer
Plans & Pricing XML-Powered
Enterprise-grade information architecture.
Open data APIs make your data as flexible as you are.
Standards-based API
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Scale big or go homeEmpower users to organize your data without sacrificing the structure needed to make a scalable information structure for contributed content. Our hierarchical structure dynamically incorporates both tags and categories. |
Frustration-free searchabilityKeeping content organized and accessible is hard. Guidebook continually catalogues your content, automatically organizing pages using tags and hierarchical categories. Expand your data architecture at the same rate that your users create content! |
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XHTML, XML, PDF, flexibleOur open XML-based architecture means that your information is portable. Open standards make it easy to adapt documentation for use in any environment. Want to build a custom application to display the content on a mobile device? Go right ahead. Want an immersive, hands-free view? Use our slideshow view. It's your data—make it work for you. |
And so much more.
Guidebook's rich feature set is battle tested and industry proven.
Embed itSuccessful viral marketing requires two things: content people want to share + a really easy way to share it. Sharing Guidebook documents is as simple as copying a string—just like embedding a YouTube clip. The embed is built on top of our open API, so you can modify it to suit your needs. We believe in making our API so easy to use, people don't even realize they're doing it. |
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