Post Style Guidelines

Watch these video for tips on how to make a great blog post.

 

Use these guidelines when making posts for the site.

Everything is a design problem and your posts will be evaluated on these criteria.

General

  • Use proper categories for all posts (not ‘zero’).
  • Use proper capitalization, spelling and grammar.
  • Cite the authors for all included example work (if possible).

Paragraphs

  • Use simple bolding of headers in most cases.
  • Remove colons “:” after headers on their own line as they don’t need them.
  • Use shift+return between paragraph header and paragraph to keep them together like this:Header
    This is a paragraph. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco
  • Avoid centering the page titles or headers.
  • Remove all extracharacter returnsbetweenelements.
  • Create clear divisions for different sections using headers images and horizontal rules.

  • Do not underline text anytime.
  • Do not use multiple colors for text or header elements.

Links

Images

  • Resize huge (over 2000 pixels width or height) images in PhotoShop before uploading. They slow down the site.
  • Use medium sized images for design examples (600px or less)
  • Use the gallery function for 4 or more images