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Guidelines for Creating/Revising LibGuides

For OU librarians transitioning to LibGuides 2.

Tabbed, Gallery, and Profile Boxes

Here are notes on the other three types of boxes:

  • Tabbed Box: This type of box is like the searchbox on our Home Page; see this example of a tabbed box in thie very Guide. After creating it, you simply build it one tab at a time. Look for the little  tool under each tab to create and edit the content.
  • Gallery Box: The idea with this is to make it possible to dispaly lots of images in a small space, in a rotating carousel. Here is an example, which at the moment (May 2014) doesn't work too well: http://libguides.library.ohio.edu/c.php?g=1713&p=13063 Here are some of the problems:
  1. Unless you have really large images, the images look pretty strange, sitting to the left of a very wide content box.
  2. In setting up the Gallery, you make make each image clickable, but you have to be careful exactly where on the image you click, since the Gallery also includes little left and right navigation arrows.
  3. You can't add explanatory text above or below the Gallery, nor wrap text to the left and right.
  • Proflle Box: At least at the moment, the functionality of Profile boxes is kind of limited, in comparison with LG1. They are also tricky to find: they are in LibApps, not in LibGuides itself. (Eventually, Springshare will use LibApps as a single sign-on for their other products as well as for LibGuides.) We are recommending that authors use the Guide Author and Contact/Help box on this page as a model and include it on all of their own pages.