Create guides that meet user's needs
Post guide creation
Less is more: write and arrange content for easy scanning / browsing
Do not use library jargon
Limit the number of tabs to one line
Use tab sub-pages with caution
Make tab names meaningful and short
Avoid box clutter
Remember mobile users when you arrange boxes on pages
Emphasizing text
Reuse content
Reuse Content
Whenever you use either a Simple Web Links (displays the link title with description on scroll over) or a Links and Lists (displays both title and description) box, you have the option to reuse an existing link. You can copy any existing link on the system which saves time.
Please ALWAYS reuse links to databases from the master list of databases in the Databases A-Z Guide. If the database you want is not listed, contact Beth Moreton. This will give us one place to edit these links. You will be able to reuse the brief descriptions that are added or use your own.
When you want to put a link to a database within a Rich Text box (a box like this one), remember that you can add different types of content into a single box with LibGuides 2.0. For example, this box on the Public Health page has quite a few different types of content. Like so (this is viewable through the Add / Reorder button at the bottom of the box and then selecting Reorder Content):
Pages with sub-pages
For example, on the RefWorks: Quick Tips guide, we have a page (Write-N-Cite) with multiple sub-pages:
It's best practice that all the links in that menu (Write-N-Cite (PC), ...) are listed when you click on the main Write-N-Cite page. Which has been done there:
The reason for this is two-fold: