Getting Started with LibGuides

Think of each guide as a collection of pages, each page containing different content. In your guide, you can have both top-level pages and sub-pages beneath them. 

• Add a regular page to your guide
  A regular page allows you to add boxes of content to your guide. This is the best type to use whenever you want to create content form scratch.
• Reuse or copy a page from another guide
  In addition to creating a new page from scratch, you can reuse (i.e. map) or copy a page from this or another guide.
• Add a blog page to your guide
  A blog page allows you to create a blog right within your guide. Similar to other blogging platforms, you can create posts and share them using a connected social media account. Readers can subscribe to your blog via RSS or sign up for email notifications whenever you add a new post. You can even create a blogs widget to embed your recent posts on another guide or webpage.

You can organize your Guide pages in either a tabbed navigation menu (with a row of tabs at the top of the page) or side navigation menu (with a vertical list of tabs on the left side of the page). In both cases, top-level pages will display as tabs, with their sub-pages listed in dropdown menus when you hover over them.

• Change your guide's navigation/page layout
  See a comparison of tabbed vs. side navigation and learn how to switch your guide's layout.
• Display previous and next page buttons on your guide
  In addition to your navigation menu, you can also display Previous and Next page buttons at the bottom of each page.

• How to edit your page's title and description
  Learn how to rename your page and add or edit its description, both of which can help users when browsing and searching your site.
• Give your page a friendly URL
  Learn how to replace each page's default URL (which just contains ID numbers) with text, such "home" or "apa-citation", which can make your page's URL easier to remember and link to. (Note: you must first assign a friendly URL to your guide.)
• Customize the column layout of tabbed navigation pages
  If your guide is using a tabbed navigation layout, you can customize the size and number of columns on each page of your guide.
• Redirect a page to a different URL
  Normally, when a user clicks on a tab in your guide, they will see the content of that page. However, you can optionally redirect users to another page instead -- such as another guide, a database, your library catalog, etc.
• Change a page's visibility with Draft Mode
  To keep a page hidden from public view, you can put it into Draft Mode. This is particularly helpful when working on a published guide, as it allows you to hide a page from users until its ready.
• Reorder and move pages and sub-pages
  Learn how to reorder pages in your guide's navigation, including how to turn a top-level page into a sub-page and vice versa.
• Delete a page or sub-page
  Learn how to remove a page and its content from your guide.