LibGuide Best Practices

• Assign a friendly URL to the guide so that the guide is easier to find.
  • NOTE: Must use lowercase letters
  • Never use underscores
  • Brief but relevant to content (e.g., http://libraryguides.missouri.edu/institutions)
• To change the default URL from a number to a friendly URL, click on the pencil icon located to the right of the URL field.
• If applicable, assign a friendly URL to individual pages.
  • Click on the pencil icon located to the right of the PAGE URL.

Metadata ensures that the guide is discoverable when searching the site.

• Course Guides
  • Assign the tag "course guides"
  • Never assign course guides to subject categories
     
• Subject guides
  • Assign the tag "subject guides"
  • Assign the subject guide to a subject category
     
•  Integrating libguides into Canvas

• Colors and fonts are standard across LibGuides to ensure a consistent look and feel.
• Do not change unless such changes truly enhance the guide.
• Colors
  • Box header background color should remain white with limited exceptions.
• Fonts
  • Standard font size is 14 px.  Do not go lower than 12 px.
  • Avoid customizing font size in an individual box.
  • Bold and italicize sparingly.
  • Don't underline text - users associate underlined text with links.
  • Use additional font colors sparingly; otherwise the page will appear too busy.