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Training info:
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Basic guidelines for creating LibGuides pages:
- Follow the web style & writing guidelines already in practice:
- Keep it simple!
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General: |
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Follow existing web guidelines whenever possible, including use of color and recommended fonts. |
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You can use LibGuides to create any sort of research guide: publication types, subject pages, databases cheatsheets, course pages, etc. | |
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Setting up your profile: |
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Label the profile box (and all boxes!) wisely:
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Use your Kerberos ID for your profile shortcut. |
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Only include your name in the "Display Name" field. | |
Staff photo use guidelines should be followed, if you choose to use a photo. No avatars! Hide the photo box on each guide, if you don't use a picture. |
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Use "friendly" |
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URLs |
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(shortcut |
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URLs) |
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for |
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all |
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pages. |
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Adding chat contact info is optional. People are welcome to embed Meebo boxes, but color should match with our color scheme (black, meebo, mac, meebome). |
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Contact information should always display in top right. You can delete the default profile box, as long as you add a new box with contact info. |
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Page layout: | |
No set limit to number of boxes allowed on page, but if it looks cluttered or if scrolling is excessive, creator should consider reorganizing or using Dreamweaver | |
2 and 3 column layouts are both usable. |
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column) |
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(3 |
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column) |
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Set a maximum of 5 or 6 tabs per page. Subtabs may be used, but should be kept as simple as possible and labeled wisely. Don't link tabs to URLs outside of your guide, since the tabs are meant for navigating within your guide. |
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When given an option, |
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have |
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links |
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open |
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in |
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a |
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new |
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tab/window. |
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Choose to "link |
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to" |
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or |
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"copy" |
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wisely. |
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Any |
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time |
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the |
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content |
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should |
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be |
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maintained |
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by |
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one |
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person, |
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use |
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link |
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to |
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(ex., |
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search |
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box |
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on |
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You can also copy or link to database information.
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Other features: |
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You can turn comments off, or leave them on. Comments are centrally set to be "moderated" by the page editors. | |
Don't use tags feature. |
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You can either upload images and images through LibGuides (in edit mode), or store them on the Libraries server, and you can link to them from your LibGuide. If you need permissions, or if you don't know how to upload, ask libguides@mit.edu to do it for you. Upload to:
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Making pages live: | |
Make sure to add a "friendly" shortcut URL for each page. If you're making a test page, end the URL with "-test". |
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LibGuides |
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won't |
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let |
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you |
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use |
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a |
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"dot", |
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so |
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if |
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you're |
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creating |
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a |
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course |
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page |
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in |
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LibGuides, |
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use |
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a |
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hyphen |
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in |
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the |
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friendly |
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URL |
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in |
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place |
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of |
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the |
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dot. |
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If you want to save an old version of a page, change the page title to include the date, or some other identifier that will show that it's an old page (ex., "Product Engineering Processes, 2007"). Also, change the shortcut URL to "pagetitle-old" |
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(ex., |
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biology-old), |
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and |
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change |
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the |
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status |
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to |
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"private." |
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If |
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you |
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have |
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more |
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than |
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one |
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old |
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version |
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saved, |
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you |
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could |
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use |
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"pagetitle-old-2007" |
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or |
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something |
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else |
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that |
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would |
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make |
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sense. |
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Add one or more subject categories per page. |
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Keep pages public or private. Don't bother with unpublished. |
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No need to get approval to post pages. Tell Marion when it's live so she can update links to it from pages on our site that link to it, including our Site Index. |
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If you don't want a guide anymore, delete it! (You can delete the page that Marion made for you originally, too, if you're not using it anymore.) |
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Need help?? Ask libguides@mit.edu