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Creating a LibGuide

This guide will help you design an accessible, user-friendly LibGuide.

Guide Structure

Everything Together

guide is composed of one or more pages that are each made up of content boxes which contain content items such as textboxesimages, or assets like link assetsdatabase assets, or books from the catalog, among others.

visual of guide elements - asset types as content items, nested in content items that make up context boxes, that make up pages, that make up a guide

A Guide

Here is the Finance guide.

red outline showing most of the screen makes up the guide

A Page

This is the Introduction page of the of the Finance guide.

red outline showing that everything on a guide below the name and description is part of the page

Content Boxes

Here you can see the individual content boxes that make up the Introduction page of the Finance guide.

red outline indicating that the sections that make up a page are called content boxes

Content Items

The information within a content box is called a content item which could be a number of things from textboxes, images, or assets.

red outlines indicating content items that are within the content boxes