The document discusses creating and customizing LibGuides pages. It provides tips on planning page structure using blueprints before building pages in LibGuides. It reviews options for adding, ordering and deleting pages and boxes. It also discusses different types of content boxes like rich text, links, and multimedia boxes. The document demonstrates creating a link list together and limitations of the WYSIWYG editor. It concludes with an assignment to create a dance research guide.

1. The Power of LibGuides: Using the
Interface and Creating Content
Michael Johnson, MLS
Circulation Librarian, Shawnee State University

2. What we will cover in the
next hour
 A SWOT Analysis of users and LibGuides
 The main page options
 Creating a new research guide
 Creating pages and ordering them
 Creating content boxes and content
 The limitations of a WYSIWYG
 Creating a guide together
 Assignment

3. What is a SWOT Analysis?
 A business tool
Strength Weakness
Opportunity Threat

4. Main/Home/Dashboard
options

5. Creating a new research
guide: Before Clicking
 Start on paper
 Pencil and paper are easy to erase and move
around
 This saves time
 Making a blueprint
 Not for every bit of content
 Big parts
 How many tabs
 Major boxes
 Like a blue print this will change

6. Creating a new research
guide: Lets take a tour

7. Creating a new research
guide: Lets take a tour

8. Creating a new research
guide: Lets take a tour
 Add a page
 Adding a tap
 Reorder/move pages
 Reorder boxes
 Resize columns
 Delete a page
 This can’t be undone

9. Creating a new research
guide: WARNING
 Don’t create subpages under the tabs
 Hard to use on Mobile
 The drop down menus that appear under the tabs
are confusing
 Users don’t like them
 Instead create a new guide with the headers
being the drop down menu
 Link back with a related guides box at the bottom

10. Creating a new site: Lets
move some stuff around
 Lets take a look at the practice cyber bulling
guide I made: http://mwj.libguides.com/cyber-
bullying
 We will go over content types in a bit

11. What’s in a box: Types of
content
 Rich Text/Dynamic Content/Scripts
 This is the most versatile box
 Allows for HTML and embedding
 Link Boxes
 This is you want to make a list of links
 I like Links & Lists
 Multimedia Boxes
 Use it only for RSS Feeds and Books from Catalog
 Everything else can be done in Rich Text better

12. What’s in a box: Types of
content pt. 2
 User Input Boxes
 Don’t use them
 Miscellaneous Boxes
 Dates and events is useful
 Google Boxes
 Aren’t we trying to show other sources then Google?
 Play Around
 Explore and learn the options

13. The power of lists
 Lists are very useful
 Databases
 Similar resources
 Providing out going links
 Descriptive Text
 At the top there is room to write
 Users like lists
 Short and related material
 Non-Link list
 Use Rich Text

14. Lets make a link list together

15. Rich text box: WYSIWYG
 Stands for “What you see is what you get”
 Allows for a graphical system to interact with
XHTML and CSS
 Like Microsoft word for a website
 Pros
 Interacting in a way that your used to
 Short learning time, almost “natural”
 Cons
 Not versatile
 Can fight you

16. Rich text box introduction

17. Time to create a guide
 We are going to do one on sports

18. Assignment: Dance Guide
 Make 5 different tabs related to dance
 Under each tab create boxes for
 Books
 Articles
 E Resources
 Related Guides

19. Lunch Time!