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Guide on making guides!
By: Orange Date: January 31, 2013, 10:08 am
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Hopefully this topic will provide some useful tips on how to
layout your guides to make them the most useful for other
members. If you feel I have missed anything please feel free to
reply with them and I will update it.
General Tips:
Text Styles And Sizes-
Try to make sure that you use the default or easy to read texts,
try to avoid overly small or overly big font sizes.
Paragraphs-
Try not to have your guide as all one block of text, it makes it
less attractive to read and less helpful. Try to split it into
smaller paragraphs, grouping together all relevant parts.
Spelling-
This is important; you need to be careful about spelling in
guides. If English isn't your first language or if you find it
difficult then it is fine. It is not overly important to
distinguish between English or American spelling. If you are
critiquing a guide, please don't be overly harsh on spelling,
while it's highly recommended that people use proper spelling
that shouldn't be the main focus of a scathing attack on the
guide.
Formatting-
This is not overly important but it can make your guide look
nicer and more appealing.
Images-
If you wish to include images in your guides, which can be
helpful, make sure they are of reasonable size to be seen, not
to small or to big.
Proof Read-
This is vital, you need to proof read your guides. Check that it
makes sense, or it might help to get another person to read your
guide, just to make sure it make sense to other people.
Formatting Options-
When you are writing your guide, or posting it, there are many
different types of effects you can put on your text to make them
stand out, these include different colours, sizes and different
font styles.
The main focuses you can put on text are bold, italic and
underlined. These can be often used to highlight headings,
sub-headings and other important bits of information that you
want to draw people’s attention to. It is better to use
something like bold than to type all in capitals.
Other than using the above styles, you can change the colours of
text, this can either be done by selecting a colour from the
little list.
Short sentences are the best for getting a point across, it is
vital to separate larger paragraphs into smaller more manageable
amounts.
It is possible to align the text, either to the left, the right
or the middle of the post. This is especially useful for when
you are adding in major titles, it lets people scan your guide
and pick out the bits they want to read or re-read.
Hopefully this guide has been helpful for you to create/edit
guides. If you have anything you feel should be added to this
guide then feel free to post it in a reply, and it will be
updated as soon as possible.
Hope this helps!
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Re: Guide on making guides!
By: KiratS555 Date: January 31, 2013, 6:50 pm
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English class again >:(
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Re: Guide on making guides!
By: KiratS555 Date: January 31, 2013, 6:53 pm
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But i will try
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Re: Guide on making guides!
By: Orange Date: February 19, 2013, 1:05 pm
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Bump!
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Re: Guide on making guides!
By: Superior Date: February 19, 2013, 1:06 pm
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Imma make a guide but I don't know what on hmm...
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