The pages in this section offer tips and best practices for adding various types of content to your guides, including rich text, links, images, and other embedded media. The LibGuides system uses boxes as containers for your content.
When building your guide, consider research that reminds online content creators to be succinct and intentional about what to include. Online readers "are not likely to read your content completely or linearly. They just want to pick out the information that is most pertinent to their current needs.". (Nielsen/Norman Group, How People Read Online: The Eyetracking Evidence)
Just as with guide pages, you can reuse individual boxes rather than creating them again and again. Remember that if you create a copy of a box and then delete some or all of its contents, unused assets may be left behind in the system. Contact your LibGuides administrator to learn how to clean them up.
These boxes may be placed under the left menu (Side-Nav Column) to preserve space in the main column for other content. The home page of both course and subject guides should include your profile box and Ask the Library. The other boxes are most appropriate for subject guides.
The subpages in this section provide standards and best practices for using the most common content types.