Keep Up to Date

Check the Resources section for information on the following topics from the May 24 Open Lab:

• Unpublishing a LibGuide
• Deleting a LibGuide
• Copying a LibGuide
• Changing from tabs to side navigation
• Adding chat button
• Adding friendly URLs
• Setting guide type

1. If there are no students over the summer in a program that you own a guide for, you can simply unpublish the guide while you work on it.
2. Do you have a template guide? All of the health sciences guides have a "Search for Articles by Citation" page. The process is exactly the same, no matter what area of the health sciences, so it is the exact same page in all of the guides. After I create a page like this, I reuse the same page on multiple guides, letting LibGuides keep the connection - that way, when I make revisions, I only need to make changes to the template guide, not each individual guide. So for this go around of updates to LibGuides, I will revise the template guide first, and then make changes to all of the health sciences guide for the individualized information they carry.

Anchoring to text or an image within the same Rich Text/HMTL box in LibGuides:

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Header/Footer

<div class="row s-lg-row">

<div id="s-lg-col-1" class="col-md-12">

<div class="s-lg-col-boxes">Header</div>

</div>

</div>

So if you're not moving to side-navigation or don't care about bootstrap, you'll probably want to ignore this post. If you might be interested in bootstrap, read on. The big and best deal about bootstrap: It automatically renders the webpage in a layout which does not require side-to-side scrolling whether you are on a tablet or smart phone. The next best thing? Being able, in one Rich Text section  inside one LibGuide box, to go from one column to two columns, to three columns, and back to two columns.

For instance, the page I created that discusses APA-Style Title Pages is formatted like this:

Yes, I get excited by the little stuff. But I was very excited to learn that instead of limiting us more, LibGuides actually allows us more freedom to present content in a usable manner.

If you're like me, it took a couple of days to figure out a workflow for doing massive updates to a LibGuide. While (I think) the content is mostly good on my APA Style guide, I am making some fairly major changes to make the guide suitable for mobile, and - in the meantime - I am learning new and different tricks with LibGuides that sometimes work and sometimes fail. Sometimes MAJORLY fail. Working on a copy of the APA Style guide allows me to do two things: 1) Leave my original guide as is, so that any major fail will not accidently end in lost content and much cursing, and 2) my guide will not appear to students or faculty as under construction. When the revisions are completed on the copy of the guide, I will simply add the pages from the copy guide to the original guide, delete the old pages, and Voila! The transformed guide emerges.

If you plan to try this work flow, do NOT change any of your page names to FRIENDLY URLs
until the pages are copied over to the original guide; otherwise, you end up completing this step twice.

Workflow for the APA Style guide revisions: 

1. Create and new guide and copy the content from the existing guide.
2. Change the navigation from top-tab to side on the the copy.
3. Make all the changes to the pages (except for the Friendly URLs).
4. Once all revisions are made, go back to the original guide and copy the pages from revised copy of the guide.
5. Delete the old pages from the guide.
6. Give the new pages Friendly URLs.
7. Delete the copy guide.

If you'd like to see what I mean, take a look:

• The original guide: http://libguides.unco.edu/apa/
• The copy of the guide: http://libguides.unco.edu/apacopy/ (at the time I am writing this the pages I have updated are Home, More APA Resources, APA Style Blog, Questions? Contact Us, FAQs, and Title Page - and you will notice that I gave them Friendly URLs, so I will end up doing that work twice.

Hanging Indents

<div style="padding-left: 4em; text-indent: -4em;">

<p>...first reference...</p>

<p>...second reference...</p>

<p>...etc...</p>

</div>

2 Columns with Small Column on the Right

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<div id="s-lg-col-1" class="col-md-8">

<div class="s-lg-col-boxes">Column 1</div>

</div>

<div id="s-lg-col-2" class="col-md-4">

<div class="s-lg-col-boxes">Column 2</div>

</div>

</div>

4 Even Columns

<div class="row s-lg-row">

<div class="col-md-3" id="s-lg-col-1">

<div class="s-lg-col-boxes">Column 1</div>

</div>

<div class="col-md-3" id="s-lg-col-2">

<div class="s-lg-col-boxes">Column 2</div>

</div>

<div class="col-md-3" id="s-lg-col-3">

<div class="s-lg-col-boxes">Column 3</div>

</div>

<div class="col-md-3" id="s-lg-col-4">

<div class="s-lg-col-boxes">Column 3</div>

</div>

</div>

3 Even Columns

<div class="row s-lg-row">

<div class="col-md-4" id="s-lg-col-1">

<div class="s-lg-col-boxes">Column 1</div>

</div>

<div class="col-md-4" id="s-lg-col-2">

<div class="s-lg-col-boxes">Column 2</div>

</div>

<div class="col-md-4" id="s-lg-col-3">

<div class="s-lg-col-boxes">Column 3</div>

</div>

</div>

Did you know that there are ways to emulate/simulate mobile browsers so that you can see your LibGuide design as someone on an phone ore tablet will? Check out the documents in the left column for PDF instructions for using a mobile emulator/simulator in Chrome and Firefox. Thanks to Nicole for the tip!

These instructions demonstrate how to change from Top-Tab Navigation to Side-Navigation in a LibGuide.