Styleguide WIP¶
Feel free to add or suggest changes if you feel strongly about anything!
Author setup¶
- Do set your author profile pic, bio and website.
- The X and Facebook links are (sadly) hard coded into Ghost -- suggest we don't use/promote either. I would love to change these to Bluesky and Mastodon and am looking into it, if youre able to help do shout.
Article checklist¶
- Make sure it has a featured image (set using link above the title)
- Preferably a photograph, ideally your own content
- Landscape format
- It will probably be cropped in unpredictable ways so don't use anything with stuff around the edge that has to be there
- This will be shown as the preview on social media so important!
- Set the Excerpt - top right button to open menu. This should be a 2-3 sentence mysterious pracis that we will use to plug it on social media
- Consider ending in a question for blog commenters
- Flow into Ghost when ready but do not publish -- this will be managed by Kim
Content¶
- Use subheadings not bullets to structure things (bullet environment can go weird on mobile)
- Use headings in order for accessibilty - i.e. h2 then h3
- Do check for SPAG before uploading :)
- Spell out acronyms the first time you use them
- Sprinkle with more images if you have them
- Linking things is good!
Article ideas¶
- Do a community spotlight
- Book review
- Tell the story of something you made
- Write a way to make a website