Create A Guide

Creating a new guide:

• From your main administation page, click on Create New Guide.
• If you want to use another guide as a template, select that guide.  (You can choose one of the QUT templates or one of your own guides)  Otherwise, leave it as "Start Fresh (no template)"
  
  • If you do use an existing guide as a template, all of the content (tabs and boxes) will be copied into your new guide for use as is or for editing.
• Give your guide a title.
• Include a brief description.
  • Note that the title and description can be easily changed before publishing.
• To allow other librarians to edit your guides (optional), select up to 3 from the drop-down list.
• Click on Create New Guide and you're ready to format the guide and add content.

Content is added to guides using content boxes arranged on pages (tabs).

• See Tabs for details on how to add more pages/tabs to a guide.
• See Boxes for details on the different types of content boxes and how to add them to a page.
• See Adjusting Columns for instructions on how to change the width and number of columns.

The QUT Library default is a narrow left column, a wide middle column, and a narrow right column.

To change this:

• Click on Add/Edit Pages on the yellow command bar.
• Select Adjust Columns on This Page.
• Change the column width settings.
• Click the "Adjust widths" button.

Springshare Support has made a short video demonstrating how to create a new guide.